Cloud Architect (Hybrid Work Schedule)

Description

Position at Parts Town

See What We’re All About

As the fastest-growing distributor of restaurant equipment, HVAC and residential appliance parts, we like to do things a little differently. First, you need to understand and demonstrate our Core Values with safety being your first priority. That’s key. But we’re also looking for unique enthusiasm, high integrity, courage to embrace change…and if you know a few jokes, that puts you on the top of our list!

Do you have a genius-level knowledge of original equipment manufacturer parts? If not, no problem! We’re more interested in passionate people with fresh ideas from different backgrounds. That’s what keeps us at the top of our game. We’re proud that our workplace has been recognized for its growth and innovation on the Inc. 5000 list 15 years in a row and the Crain’s Fast 50 list ten times. We are honored to be voted by our Chicagoland team as a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace for the last four years.

If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves, go above and beyond and put your ambition to work, all while having some fun, let’s chat – Apply Today!

Perks

• Parts Town Pride – check out our virtual tour and culture!
• Quarterly profit-sharing bonus
• Hybrid Work schedule
• Team member appreciation events and recognition programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Monthly IT stipend
• Casual dress code
• On-demand pay options: Access your pay as you earn it, to cover unexpected or even everyday expenses
• All the traditional benefits like health insurance, 401k/401k match, employee assistance programs and time away – don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.
  
  

The Job at a Glance

The Cloud Architect will be building disaster resilient, cloud native systems and services that require a great cloud strategy at its foundation. Success in this role is realized by bring our cloud strategy and capabilities to life, along with clear standards, policies and procedures around how scalable cloud practices are built and maintained.

A Typical Day

• Own the Cloud Architectural Artifacts by networking, Implementing level architecture for scalable IaC strategies
• Contribute to and maintain our organization wide Architecture Decision Records
• Responsible for Cloud Policies, Procedures and Standards Including disaster resiliency, recovery and availability planning, IaC (use and quality gating) and Cloud technology stack/services consultancy and selection in accordance with technical and quality requirements (scalability, performance, security, compliance)
• Accountable for our Cloud Operational Practices such as Cloud infrastructure TCO modeling and optimization and Capacity planning by continuously monitoring of the utilized resources and demand trends
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers/vendors to ensure smooth operations and support
• Govern and ensure compliance with organizational security practices and auditing
• Drive best in class cloud strategies (Knowledge transfer, training, mentoring of cloud practices across the engineering organization)
  
  

To Land This Opportunity

• You have 8 years of experience of relevant industry experience
• You are proficient in one or more major cloud platforms, such as Azure (preference), Google Cloud, AWS or others
• You have experience with modularized IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and industry tooling e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer and Configuration management, Secrets Management (Consul, Vault, KMS systems, Consul Template)
• You are knowledgeable about Containerization technologies: Docker/ContainerD, Kubernetes (K8S, K3S), container registries and artifact tools (e.g. Artifactory, GCR, ACR, ECR)
  
  

You are confident about microservices principles and best practices for designing scalable and modular architectures including API Gateway technologies and best practices

• You have an understanding of event-driven architecture principles and best practices and tooling (e.g. Pub/Sub, Kafka etc)and are familiar with serverless computing services and functions (e.g. Azure Functions, AWS Lambda etc)
• You are proficient in cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, load balancing, Firewalling (including WAF), and security groups
• You are passionate about cloud security best practices, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and security group configurations, SAST & DAST tooling (CrowdStrike, Qwiet.AI, Prisma Cloud etc)
• You have knowledge with cloud monitoring and logging tools like AWS CloudWatch, EFK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic etc and have knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (e.g. Miro, Diagrams.net, Figjam, Mermaid.JS etc)
• Bonus points If you have a bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent
  
  

About Your Future Team

The Ecommerce team is a fast-growing group that embraces the rapid change that comes with incredible growth. We bring our whole selves to work each day - personality and all - in true Parts Town style.

At Parts Town, we value transparency and are committed to ensuring our team members feel appreciated and supported. We prioritize our positive workplace culture where collaboration, growth, and work-life balance are celebrated. The salary range for this role is $125,080.48 – 167,359.15 annually which is based on including but not limited to qualifications, experience, and geographical location. Parts Town is a pay for performance-company. In addition to base pay, some roles offer a profit-sharing program, and an annual bonus depending on the role. Our comprehensive benefits package includes health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) with match, employee assistance programs, paid time off, paid sick time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Parts Town welcomes diversity and as an equal opportunity employer all qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.