Senior Cloud Administrator

Summary

Join Nature's Way as our new Senior Cloud Administrator and be a part of helping people live healthy lives. This role involves overseeing, administering, and optimizing our Azure cloud infrastructure. You will ensure a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud environment while supporting critical business systems and development teams. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in Azure Cloud Administration and Solutions, strong automation, security, and performance optimization skills. You will play a key role in ensuring our cloud environment is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient while supporting critical business systems, applications, and development teams. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, and three to five years of experience
• 3 - 5+ years of experience in cloud administration or related roles
• Strong expertise in Azure, cloud services and administration of large Azure Infrastructures without leveraging IaC
• Strong proficiency in Windows/Linux administration
• Strong scripting knowledge in especially PowerShell or Bash/Python
• Strong of networking, firewalls, VPNs, RBAC and security groups in cloud environments
• Azure Administrator Associate or equivalent certification

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud solutions in Azure
• Oversee the full Azure environment, managing a large set of servers without heavy automation
• Manage cloud networking, VPNs, VPCs, VNETS and hybrid cloud connectivity
• Implement Azure Security Center, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel for threat detection and compliance
• Ensure cloud security best practices, manage IAM policies, and ensure compliance with industry regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Implement monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog) to track performance, optimize resources, and reduce costs
• Manage backup, disaster recovery (Azure Site Recovery), and high-availability strategies
• Work closely with business units, especially internal SAP teams, in developing, maintaining infrastructure that is then delivered and maintained by internal SAP teams
• Act as an Azure SME for cloud-related initiatives across the organization
• Analyze usage patterns, optimize cloud spending, and recommend cost-saving strategies
• Develop automation and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, Powershell, CloudFormation or other toolsets to reduce overall IT infrastructure cost and time

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, or other containerization technologies
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

Benefits

• Medical Option to select either a PPO plan or one of 2 high – deductible medical plans that includes a company contribution to your personal health savings bank account
• Dental Delta Dental PPO & an option to select an enhanced dental plan
• Vision Routine preventative coverage under medical plan and an option to elect additional voluntary coverage
• All employees receive 11 holidays off per year, as well as paid time off that starts at a minimum of two weeks per year
• 401K Plan Company match of up to 4% as long as employees contribute a minimum of 6% to the account. An additional profit-sharing contribution is also made to employee accounts if the company meets its annual targets
• Company provided short-term & long-term disability
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Voluntary critical illness & accident coverage
• New parent phase-in program & paternity leave
• Educational assistance reimbursement
• Product discounts & a wellness program