Cloud Systems Engineer

Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Position Summary:

The Cloud Systems Engineer builds, secures, automates, and operates enterprise cloud and hybrid infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and OCI. This role provides hands-on cloud engineering support for infrastructure automation, security, resiliency, operational support, and continuous improvement. Works with infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and application teams to implement secure, scalable, recoverable, and cost-effective cloud solutions in accordance with established standards and designs.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement, operate, maintain, and optimize enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and OCI; provide hands-on cloud engineering support.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud networking, IAM, security controls, monitoring, and governance configurations using established standards.
• Support cloud migrations, modernization initiatives, high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, support capacity and performance management, and identify cloud cost optimization opportunities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, participate in technical reviews, collaborate with engineering teams, and evaluate cloud technologies.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, platform, or cloud engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on public cloud experience supporting production environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the following platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Experience supporting production infrastructure and resolving operational issues.
• Experience supporting Windows or Linux workloads in cloud environments.

Preferred:

• Experience working in enterprise hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud landing zones and governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting cloud migration or infrastructure modernization programs.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as EKS, AKS, or OKE.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms including Azure DevOps, GitHub, or Git.
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.
• Relevant AWS, Azure, or Oracle Cloud certifications preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

Required:

• Strong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure engineering, administration, and operations.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or comparable technologies.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking, including TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, DNS, VPNs, load balancing, firewalls, security groups, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege security models, secrets management, encryption, and certificate management.
• Proficiency with one or more automation and scripting tools such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, APIs, or cloud-native automation technologies.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, high availability, and resiliency principles.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills across cloud, infrastructure, networking, security, authentication, and application dependencies.
• Strong technical documentation, diagramming, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently complete assigned technical work and contribute to projects from implementation through operational support.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of cloud-native services, managed databases, serverless technologies, and application integration services.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, or SIEM platforms.
• Understanding of IT Service Management (ITSM) disciplines including incident, problem, change, configuration, and capacity management.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior engineers, architects, cybersecurity teams, application teams, and managed service providers.
• Knowledge of cloud governance, compliance, and enterprise security frameworks.

Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
• Employee Appreciation Events and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $106,796.00 - $138,486.60*

*The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.

Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Ventura Foods may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) assisted tools at certain stages of our hiring process, including identifying & sourcing candidates, reviewing applications and matched candidates on job boards and websites, and generating screening questions to help us work more efficiently and consistently. We regularly review our tools to promote fairness and reduce the risk of bias. However, while these tools support our process, every hiring decision is made by a real person on our team. Applicants in the State of New York may request an alternative process by contacting us at VFaccessibility@rescocompany.com.