Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Position Summary:

The Cloud Systems Engineer builds, secures, automates, and operates enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and OCI. This role provides hands-on cloud engineering support for infrastructure automation, security, resiliency, operational support, and continuous improvement. Works with infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and application teams to implement secure, scalable, recoverable, and cost-effective cloud solutions in accordance with established standards and designs.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement, operate, maintain, and optimize enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and OCI; provide hands-on cloud engineering support.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring, and governance configurations using established standards.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, support capacity and performance management, and identify cloud cost optimization opportunities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, participate in technical reviews, collaborate with engineering teams, and evaluate cloud technologies.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, platform, or cloud engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on public cloud experience supporting production environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience supporting production infrastructure and resolving operational issues.
• Experience supporting Windows or Linux workloads in cloud environments.

Preferred:

• Experience working in enterprise hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud landing zones and governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting cloud migration or infrastructure modernization programs.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as EKS, AKS, or OKE.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms including Azure DevOps, GitHub, or Git.
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.
• Relevant AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud certifications preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

Required:

• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure engineering, administration, and operations.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking, including TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, DNS, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege security models, secrets management, encryption, and certificate management.
• Proficiency with one or more automation and scripting tools such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, APIs, or cloud-native automation technologies.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, high availability, and resiliency principles.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, authentication, and application dependencies.
• Strong technical documentation, diagramming, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently complete assigned technical work and contribute to projects from implementation through operational support.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of cloud-native services, managed databases, serverless technologies, and application integration services.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, or SIEM platforms.
• Understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) disciplines including incident, problem, change, configuration, and capacity management.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior engineers, architects, cybersecurity teams, application teams, and managed service providers.
• Knowledge of cloud governance, compliance, and enterprise security frameworks.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision - coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
• Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $106,796.00 - $138,486.60*

*The "base salary range" provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.