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Welcome to Ardent Mills, a company dedicated to helping our customers innovate and grow with the industry's broadest range of traditional and organic flours, whole grains, customized blends, and specialty products. Our ingredients are backed by unrivaled technical support, food safety solutions, and the supply assurance of a coast-to-coast network of more than 40 community mills and blending facilities, an artisan commercial bakery, and a Mobile Innovation Center.
The Technology team at Ardent Mills is responsible for building and powering the tools and products that allow us to nourish millions of people every day. You will lead a team in a highly collaborative environment, serve our people, and solve challenges with the latest tech. We need our people to be passionate and versatile to tackle new problems as we push technology forward. If you get excited about leading a fantastic team to provide excellent service, develop their skills, and build new things that delight our hard-working employees, the Ardent Mills Technology group might be your next career step!
Your role:
As a Cloud Architect, you will design, implement, and optimize Ardent Mill's cloud computing infrastructure. You will be responsible for architecting and deploying scalable, highly available, cost-effective and fault-tolerant cloud solutions that align with our business objectives and ensure seamless integration with our existing systems. This role is vital in technical discussions with multi-functional teams, creating solutions that ultimately lead to better products and working environments.
Your responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into robust, cost-effective cloud architecture designs.
• Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot issues across Cloud, Servers, Virtual Systems, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and other core infrastructure services.
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure as code (IaC) using technologies like Terraform and Bicep.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, security, networking, and engineering teams, to ensure successful cloud adoption and operations.
• Use monitoring tools to optimize performance, cost, and availability of cloud resources.
• Ensure security through proper certificate and secret management across on-prem and cloud.
• Act as point of contact and oversee vendor partner relationships.
• Create and maintain documentation for standard Technical Support policies, procedures, and practices.
• Lifecycle management of server hardware, including coordination and occasional travel to locations across North America.
• Participate in an after-hours support rotation.

To succeed, you must be:

• Curious and focused on business outcomes and solutions.
• Critical thinker who understands the methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize work to meet deadlines.
• Exhibit a strong work ethic and responsible behavior and must always maintain the confidentiality of information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.

Above all, you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance, and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner.
Essential skills and experience:

• 5 years experience as a Systems Administrator or Cloud Engineer.
• Expert knowledge of Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services.
• Thorough knowledge of Windows server operating systems and Active Directory.
• Thorough knowledge of Entra ID, federation, and single sign-on.
• Knowledge of Conditional Access Policies and MFA.
• Knowledge of Azure backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Understanding of networking technology.
• Knowledge of security best practices for on-prem and cloud
• Excellent communication skills and ability to clearly document processes
• Experience training and mentoring junior team members

Good to have:

• Experience with data lake and lakehouse architectures, including Databricks.
• Experience with SCCM.
• Experience or Training in Design Thinking.
• Experience with robotics, AI, and machine learning.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Other considerations:
The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.
At Ardent Mills, everyone matters, and everyone has a voice. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members, and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills.
The preceding position description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this position. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees in this position. The description, duties, functions, and responsibilities are subject to change at the discretion of Ardent Mills.