Cloud Solution Architect

For more than a century, L'Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oréal, our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all our business sectors by imagining new ways of doing things, from designing websites to building algorithms and predicting new trends. They can be found leading teams towards a more connected and digitalized future in IT retail, e-commerce, CRM, data, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud and E-Marketing. You never stop learning at L'Oréal IT because things change at the speed of light Come join our dynamic team

What You Will Do:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cloud Architect to join our team. This role will report into the Cloud Architecture Lead. This role will be an integral part of Americas Infrastructure Group and work closely with all the IT domain team (i.e., Digital, Application, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Retail) by providing expertise, design, engineering, troubleshooting of the cloud/on-prem platform with emphasis in AWS and/or Azure (GCP knowledge is a plus) environment. Collaborate with project managers and engineers to ensure cloud computing best practices are followed and applied. The ideal candidate will be motivated and skilled individual who will be part of the core team that is designing, building, and managing services in AWS, Azure and GCP. Candidate will be involved in end-to-end delivery of Enterprise Cloud Projects, with primary hands-on contribution in building out Cloud Services as it relates to deployment of IaaS/PaaS applications.

Contribute to the Cloud &Managed Apps. team and be a trusted advisor on the Americas Infrastructure group relating to public/private cloud/on-prem infrastructure:

• Design and implement new capabilities that address any gaps and provide an integrated end-to-end scalable enterprise-class service.
• Design, implement, manage, and maintain a stable, responsive, highly available public/private cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
• Provide expertise in DevOps architecture, implementation and "run" best practices.
• Work in conjunction with Digital, Enterprise Architecture, Applications, Data, IT Security, and IT Corporate teams to drive the long term and master plans within their environment.
• Develop architecture documents, reference patterns, artifacts, blueprints for solutions, dataflow diagrams.
• Participate in initiative/project discussions; provide cost estimation for infra, IaaS, PaaS services.
• Provide overall project communication to stakeholders and meet project requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Proactively identify and address the challenges associated with cloud deployments, system upgrades, and resource management, ensuring successful outcomes through robust automation
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible and Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of IT integration/Systems; integration is a plus.
• Manage implementation of infrastructure updates such as OS, DB, Tools etc.
• Undertake and create Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's)
• Undertake disaster recovery procedures if required.

What We Are Looking For:

We love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit.

Education & Experience Requirements

• BS or equivalent technical degree with 5-7 years of information technology experience with broad understanding of compute, storage, security, and network infrastructure.
• Experience in data center operations in large enterprises including the implementation and support of private and hybrid public cloud computing environments.
• Worked with the delivery of large, complex digital solutions in hosted, or hybrid environments.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure/applications in AWS and Azure
• Understanding of various AWS and Azure services, security, authentication scenarios
• Hands-on experience with large AWS and Azure deployments
• Cloud design for scalability, elasticity, and high availability
• Experience working with Agile and DevOps organizations that deliver 'Infrastructure as Code' in small iterative releases using tool sets such as Ansible, GitHub, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk
• Ability to perform in a collaborative environment with a strong customer orientation (internal and external)
• Familiarity with ITIL methodology
• Excellent people skills at all levels within the organization
• Worked in an environment that has used Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Ability to work in an VUCA environment.
• Knowledge of Firewall, networking, forward proxy, reverse proxy, DNS, CDN
• Outstanding customer service and interaction skills, as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Ability to work independently under little supervision within a demanding client centric environment.
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player with a high level of initiative.

What's In It For You:

• (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More)
• VIP Access to L'Oréal's Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More)
• (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs

Do not meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles

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