IT Cloud Infrastructure Engineer ‏(m/f) - ‏(US time zone UTC-4/EDT)

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 50,000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

• Build, design, deploy, maintain and lead the implementation of Cloud solutions across multiple public cloud offerings, e.g. Alibaba, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
  
• Participate in technology evaluation and reengineering teams to support strategy-definition and continuous process improvement activities
  
• Help implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption
  
• Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.
  
• Act as project lead around further software defined services and offerings
  
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automation of cloud enablement tools
  
• Recognize and resolve all business issues and impact
  
• Assess urgency of issues and facilitate follow-up and resolution accordingly including service quality initiatives to support a “five nines” product availability environment
  
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
  Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required; maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
  
• Participate in the design, implementation and management of workload automation initiatives
  
• Adhere to firm Change Management, Problem Management policies and familiarity with ITIL V4 or other formalized IT operations foundations 

YOUR SKILLS

• Bachelor’s Degree 
• 10+ years of relevant IT experience 
• 5+ years working with cloud platforms 
• 5+ years of experience as an enterprise systems administrator in a client or server environment, including deployment automation tools, such as Ansible 
• Extensive knowledge of Linux based systems including Hardware, software, networking and storage 
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructures on Cloud Platforms for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications 
• Certifications on Cloud Areas, including Solutions Architect, Developer, Google Cloud or Azure are highly desirable : o Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect o Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals o Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate o Google Certified Professional Data Engineer o CompTIA Cloud+ o Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 
• Specific experience with including VPC, EC2, Network, ELB, EBS, EMR, Redshift, RDS, and IAM 
• Broad experience with cloud adoption, including application readiness assessment, prototyping of new environments, server builds, data migration, performance tuning of cloud environments 
• Technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as Network, Storage, Linux/Windows, Application knowledge of Java, .Net, and IT security 
• Experience with configuring software defined networking and security configurations, including security groups and ACLs 
• Experience with DevOps procedures and processes and with working in an Agile environment 
• Experience with troubleshooting very complex distributed environments pertaining to connectivity and application performance and monitoring tools and offering high-level strategic planning and advice to an entity that will allow for the successful adoption or migration of Cloud-based technologies or services.

PERSONAL ATRIBUTES

• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
  
• Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
  
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
  
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
  
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  
• Able to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment.
  
• Strong customer service orientation.
  
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

WE OFFER

• Work in an international company that is a market leader in its industry
  
• A contract of employment
  
• Necessary work tools (telephone, laptop)
  
• Attractive salary
  
• Friendly atmosphere at work
  
• Work in a professional and successful team
  
• The so-called bonus "thirteen", in proportion to the period of employment in the calendar year
  
• Benefits: medical care, life insurance, co-financing for the Multisport card, Sodexo gift cards
  Possibility of preferential purchase of the company's products

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to gender, origin, culture, mindset, generation, disability, religion and sexual orientation.