Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KIK Consumer Products is one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products. The Cloud Engineer will design, build, automate, and operate KIK's Azure-based cloud platform supporting various enterprise initiatives and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure secure and scalable cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate Azure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, data platforms, analytics, and business-critical workloads
- Build secure and scalable cloud environments using Azure networking, storage, identity, monitoring, and security services
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Bicep, and Git-based deployment practices
- Design and support Azure networking including VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, VPNs, Load Balancers, and Azure RBAC
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams to modernize and automate cloud operations while improving platform reliability, scalability, and security
- Oversee full Exchange Online mail flow, SPF/DKIM/DMARC configuration, retention and distribution-list lifecycle; administering Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, Viva, and license assignments; and deploying E5 features such as Defender for Office 365
- Operate hybrid Entra ID environments by maintaining Azure AD Connect or Cloud Sync, enforcing Conditional Access and MFA, utilizing Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and monitoring Identity Protection alerts
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines supporting infrastructure, platform, and data solution deployments
- Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources including virtual machines, networking, storage, identity, and security services
- Implement Configuration-as-Code practices ensuring all environment settings, application configurations, and deployment parameters are maintained in YAML/configuration files rather than hard-coded solutions
- Develop automation using Python and PowerShell to streamline platform operations, monitoring, compliance validation, and deployment processes
- Support environment promotion strategies across Development, QA, UAT, and Production
- Deploy and support containerized workloads using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Manage container registries, Helm deployments, and Kubernetes-based application platforms
- Troubleshoot production platform issues across infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, and application layers
- Implement observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana, and related monitoring tools
- Support Azure-based Lakehouse architectures including Azure Data Lake and Databricks environments
- Enable secure and scalable access to enterprise data for analytics, reporting, and operational workloads
- Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support data platform services and data integration initiatives
- Implement platform capabilities that improve data accessibility, reliability, governance, and operational efficiency
Skills
- 5+ years of Cloud Infrastructure or DevOps experience
- Strong Azure infrastructure expertise including virtual machines, networking, storage, security, identity, and monitoring
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or similar Infrastructure as Code technologies
- Experience building and supporting GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- Experience automating deployment and configuration of cloud infrastructure, networking, and security services
- Strong Docker and Kubernetes (AKS preferred) experience
- Python and PowerShell scripting experience
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, and production support practices
- Experience supporting Azure Data Lake, Databricks, or Lakehouse architectures
- Strong troubleshooting and incident response experience in production cloud environments
- Experience supporting enterprise data platforms and analytics environments
- Experience with Databricks, Azure Data Lake, or modern Lakehouse architectures
- GitOps experience using ArgoCD, FluxCD, or similar technologies
- Observability experience using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or similar platforms
- Experience with Azure security, governance, and compliance best practices
Benefits
- Health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Retirement savings options including employer match
- Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth
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