C2c Hiring – Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer (Terraform required (must) – REMOTE

As part of the Cloud Services team, your core role will be to lead the development and operations of building and maintaining cloud infrastructure for identified critical applications on ECIP (Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform). This includes all aspects of cloud services within our Azure hybrid cloud environment. The role will serve as the main engineering and operations subject matter expert for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform. Your mission is to partner with cloud engineers, architects and application engineers in developing an efficient infrastructure on the ECIP to ensure resiliency, agility.

• Build cloud infra for applications using ECIP (Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Platform – Starbucks Platform on Azure) onboarding service offerings

• Building Azure services using terraform templates as necessary to support

• Building applications through agreed and established CI/ CD pipelines

• Building application infrastructure leveraging tools like ArgoCD, Istio etc. are required

• Ability to troubleshoot network – load balancer, DNS and firewalling is required.

• Development and maintenance of infrastructure build should comply with Starbucks best practices and security standards

• Exhaustive unit, functional and integration testing is required to be done before progressing up the environment levels

• Documentation of every change and delivery meticulously in Git or Confluence as appropriate.

• Ensuring the application infrastructure performance is maintained

• Monitoring and logging of application infrastructure is required

• Automating everything is mandatory

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems or a related field.

• Deep expertise in Public Cloud technologies – Azure hosting infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, etc.)

• Experience in Networking, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform and PowerShell

• Candidate must have strong technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts with management, architects, developers and systems & applications engineering teams.

• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies such as Scrum.

• Curiosity to understand how things work and how they can be improved.

• Strong working knowledge of Azure Cloud is mandatory

• Strong working knowledge of AKS and Kubernetes in general is required

• Strong understanding and working knowledge of Azure networking and Azure Identity is required

Leadership and Communication:

• Leads by example – with confidence, a positive attitude, patience, honesty and integrity

• Drives decision-making that favors compromise and alignment over consensus-building

• Excellent organization and facilitation skills; ability to adapt approach to different types of engagements

• Experience in definition, assessment, and optimization of IT processes (SDLC, ITIL, etc.)

• Ability to engage in difficult conversations that result in positive, actionable outcomes

• Seeks and provides honest, transparent feedback

• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing with strong interpersonal skills and interact with all levels of the organization.

Acumen and Learning Agility:

• Deep understanding of cloud native designs and operations practices

• Follows industry technology trends and how they apply to Starbucks Technology

• Influence vendor product roadmaps based on Starbucks Technology requirements

• Evangelize emerging technology to internal and external audiences

• Drive the future planning for core system upgrades/departures to new solution designs