McCain Foods

Cloud Engineer

As a cloud infrastructure engineer, you'll empower teams to adopt cloud services through hands-on design and implementation of new capabilities. You'll leverage your expertise in cloud architecture, automation, and security to build scalable solutions. Collaboration with diverse teams, including architects, developers, and SREs, will be crucial for success. You'll also tackle complex operational issues, ensuring smooth service delivery through your attention to detail and customer-centric approach.

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 Position Title: Cloud Engineer Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: New Delhi Requisition ID: 30496 Job Purpose As a cloud infrastructure engineer, you'll empower teams to adopt cloud services through hands-on design and implementation of new capabilities. You'll leverage your expertise in cloud architecture, automation, and security to build scalable solutions. Collaboration with diverse teams, including architects, developers, and SREs, will be crucial for success. You'll also tackle complex operational issues, ensuring smooth service delivery through your attention to detail and customer-centric approach. Job Responsibilities <ul><li>Provide expert knowledge on cloud infrastructure and platforms, to ensure our organization achieves its goals for cloud adoption. This involves translating cloud strategy and architecture into efficient, resilient, and secure technical implementations.</li><li>Offer cloud-engineering thought leadership in areas to define specific cloud use cases, cloud service providers, and/or strategic tools and technologies</li><li>Support architects working on new cloud solutions including analyzing requirements, supporting technical architecture activities, prototyping, design and development of infrastructure artifacts, testing, implementation, and the preparation for ongoing support.</li><li>Work on cloud migration projects, including analyzing requirements and backlogs, identifying migration techniques, developing migration artifacts, executing processes, and ensuring preparations for ongoing support.</li><li>Design, build, deliver, maintain and improve infrastructure solutions. This includes automation strategies such as IaC, configuration-as-code, policy-as-code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps). Participate in change and release management processes, carrying out complex provisioning and configuration tasks manually, where needed.</li><li>Research and prototype new tools and technologies to enhance cloud platform capabilities. Proactively identify innovative ways to reduce toil, and teach, coach or mentor others to improve cloud outcomes using automation.</li><li>Improve reliability, scalability and efficiency by working with product engineers and site reliability engineers to ensure well-architected and thoughtfully operationalized cloud infrastructures. This includes assisting with nonfunctional requirements, such as data protection, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring requirements and efficiency considerations in different environments.</li><li>Provide subject matter expertise for all approved IaaS and PaaS services, respond promptly to escalated incidents and requests, and build reusable artifacts ready for deployment to cloud environments.</li><li>Exert influence that lifts cloud engineering competency by participating in (and, where applicable, leading) organizational learning practices, such as communities of practice, dojos, hackathons and centers of excellence (COEs). Actively participate in mentoring. Practice continuous improvement and knowledge sharing (e.g., providing KB articles, training and white papers).</li><li>Participate in planning and optimization activities, including capacity, reliability, cost management and performance engineering.</li><li>Work closely with security specialists to design, implement and test security controls, and ensure engineering activities align to security configuration guidance.</li><li>Establish logging, monitoring and observability solutions, including identification of requirements, design, implementation and operationalization.</li><li>Optimize infrastructure integration in all scenarios — single cloud, multicloud and hybrid.</li><li>Convey the pros and cons of cloud services and other cloud engineering topics to others at differing levels of cloud maturity and experience, and in different roles (e.g., developers and business technologists). Be forthcoming and open when the cloud is not the best solution.</li><li>Work closely with third-party suppliers, both as an individual contributor and as a project lead, when required. Engage with vendor technical support as the customer lead role when appropriate.</li><li>Participate/Lead problem management activities, including post-mortem incident analysis, providing technical insight, documented findings, outcomes and recommendations as part of a root cause analysis.</li><li>Support resilience activities — e.g., disaster recovery (DR) testing, performance testing and tabletop planning exercises. </li></ul>
Key Qualification &amp; Experiences <ul><li>Bachelor’s or master's degree in computer science, information systems, a related field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>Five or more years of related experience in similar roles</li><li>Collaboration with developers (and other roles, such as SREs and DevSecOps Engineers) to plan, design, implement, operationalize and problem solve workloads that leverage cloud infrastructure and platform services.</li><li>Working in an infrastructure or application support team.</li><li>Cloud migration project experience. [Data center to Cloud IAAS, Cloud Native, Hybrid Cloud] </li><li>Securing cloud platforms and cloud workloads in collaboration with security teams.</li><li>Familiarity or experience with DevOps/DevSecOps.</li><li>Agile practices (such as Scrum/Sprints, Customer Journey Mapping, Kanban).</li><li>Proposing new standards, addressing peer feedback and advocating for improvement.</li><li>Understanding of software engineering principles (source control, versioning, code reviews, etc.)</li><li>Working in an environment that complies with Health and, Manufacturing </li><li>Event-based architectures and associated infrastructure patterns</li><li>Experience working with specific technical teams: [R&amp;D teams, Data and analytics teams, etc.]</li><li>Experience where immutable infrastructure approaches have been used</li><li>Implementing highly available systems, using multi-AZ and multi region approaches</li><li>Experience with Azure, GCP, AWS, SAP cloud provider services (Azure and SAP preferred)</li><li>Experience with these cloud provider services is preferred: Infra, Data, App, API and Integration Services</li><li>DevOps-tooling such as CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps/ADO, TeamCity, GitHub, GitLab)</li><li>Infrastructure-as-code approaches, role-specific automation tools and associated programming languages (e.g., Ansible, ARM, Chef, Cloud Formation, Pulumi, Puppet, Terraform, Salt, AWS CDK, Azure SDK)</li><li>Orchestration Tools (e.g., Morpheus Data, env0, Cloudify, Pliant, Quali, RackN, VRA, Crossplane, ArgoCD)</li><li>Knowledge of software development frameworks/Languages; [e.g., Spring, Java, GOlang, PHP, Python]</li><li>Container management (e.g., Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, GKE, RHOS, VMware Tanzu)</li><li>Virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V)</li><li>Operating systems (e.g., Windows and Linux including scripting experience)</li><li>Database technologies and caching (e.g., Postgres, MSSQL, NoSQL, Redis, CDN)</li><li>Identity and access management (e.g., Active Directory/Azure AD, Group Policy, SSO, cloud RBAC and hierarchy and federation)</li><li>Monitoring tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Elastic Stack (Elastic Search/Logstash/Kibana), Datadog, LogicMonitor, Splunk)</li><li>Cloud networking (e.g., Subnetting, Route Tables, Security Groups, VPC, VPC Peering, NACLS, VPN, Transit Gateways, optimizing for egress costs)</li><li>Cloud security (e.g., key management services, encryption, other core security services/controls the organization uses)</li><li>Landing Zone Automation solutions (e.g., AWS Control tower)</li><li>Policy guardrails (e.g., policy-as-code approaches, cloud provider native policy tools, Hashicorp Sentinel, Open Policy Agent)</li><li>Scalable architectures, including APIs, microservices and PaaS.</li><li>Analyzing cloud spending and optimizing resources (e.g., Apptio Cloudability, Flexera One, IBM Turbonomic, Netapp Spot, VMware CloudHealth)</li><li>Implementing resilience (e.g., multi-AZ, multi-region, backup and recovery tools)</li><li>Cloud provider frameworks (e.g., Well-Architected)</li><li>Working with architecture tools and associated artifacts</li><li>Cloud provider certifications preferred. </li></ul>
Other Information <ul><li>Travel: as required.</li><li>Job is primarily performed in a Hybrid office environment. </li></ul>
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the <a class="app-aware-link " target="_blank" href="https://www.mccain.com/employee-privacy" data-test-app-aware-link="">Global Employee Privacy Policy</a>  Job Family: Information Technology Division: Global Digital Technology Department: I and O Project Delivery Location(s): IN - India : National Capital Territory : New Delhi Company: McCain Foods(India) P Ltd
 
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