Cloud Architect at Medline Industries, Inc. in LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois

Job Description:

Here is a great opportunity to join a great company! Medline Industries has enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH for 56 of the past 57 years! We've again been named to the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, and we're again on the list of Becker's Great Places to Work in Healthcare.

JOB SUMMARY

Medline Industries has an immediate opening for an experienced Cloud Architect. The role of the Cloud Architect is to work with the business, functional, and technical teams to define, document, educate, implement, and support cloud-based solutions to meet business objectives. As a cloud architect you will work with business, functional, and technical teams throughout the design and implementation of objectives to ensure that the overall composition of the solution meets the goals of the Architecture team and its business sponsors.
In this role, you will: conduct design reviews of new and existing architectures, create reference architectures and standards to enable effective solution delivery, design solutions for performance optimization, and design automation solutions for reusability and consistency.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Collaborates with Enterprise and Solution Architect Teams to review and create solution designs of new implementations or introduction of new cloud technologies to ensure compliance with Medline standards
• Collaborates and mentors technical teams to ensure that cloud-based solutions are implemented effectively and efficiently
• Creates detailed architectural specifications to document the architecture decisions; communicates the architectural specifications to designers, developers, contractors and business sponsors in a directly actionable, clear and unambiguous manner
• Identifies technical risks upfront and brings it to the attention of management
• Establish and enforce cloud policies, ensuring compliance and regulatory requirements, defining and monitoring governance frameworks for cloud operations and managing risks associated with cloud adoption
• Ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives and facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure clear understanding and adherence to established standards
• Keeps current on cloud technology trends both in the industry as a whole and with the applications deployed in the Medline landscape, including researching and implementing new and/or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages
• Develops cloud migration strategies that help organizations transition from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based solutions
• Drives efficient cloud automation methodology for full infrastructure-as-code development and deployment
• Provides technical leadership throughout the project life-cycle
• Provides technical support to the IT team and stakeholders to ensure that cloud-based solutions are functioning effectively and efficiently

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS

Prefer to have bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, systems engineering or a related study
Work Experience
• Experience architecting and developing scalable, distributed or web-based applications and architecture experience
• Experience with some or all of these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, and Identity and Access Management
• Experience designing solutions using the Azure suite of PaaS offerings such as Application Gateway, APIM, Azure AKS, Azure AD B2C, Azure Cosmos, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, etc
• Experience provisioningand managingAzureInfrastructureusing automation
• Experience migrating applications to the Azure cloud
• Strong problem solving characteristics with the ability to think out of the box
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal team members as well as business stakeholders and enjoys working with others in a collaborative fashion
• Experience using Terraform to perform infrastructure as code preferred

More About Medline:
Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing more than 550,000 products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.

Founded in 1910, Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving $20 billion global enterprise because of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.

Again named one of the country's "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For," and once again named to Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, Medline has experienced fifty-plus years of consecutive annual growth, and is headquartered in Northfield, IL.