At SanMar, the work you do makes a difference.

What's the Short Version?

The Cloud Systems Engineer provisions, manages, monitors and decommissions cloud-based services. They respond to system degradation or outages, track and monitor the status of the infrastructure, create and maintain system documentation, and implement and test disaster recovery plans. They are also responsible for automating processes and serving as escalation for support issues related to the company's cloud solutions.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Partner with Cloud Architects to help select, develop, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services that meet the organization's requirements.
• Migrate select workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
• Monitor the performance of cloud-based systems and optimize resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and high availability.
• Create system documentation/playbook(s) and participate as a reviewer and contributor in requirements and solution design.
• Develop and manage hybrid cloud environments, integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud services to optimize performance and cost-efficiency.
• Implement automation and orchestration techniques to streamline cloud provisioning, configuration, and management processes.
• Serves as the subject matter expert on data center/cloud technologies.
• Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate estimates.
• Develop, implement, and maintain automation processes to improve efficiency and service recoverability.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Partner with Cybersecurity team to implement security best practices and regularly audit the cloud environment to ensure compliance.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity.
• Participate in on-call support rotation and escalate to vendors as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent experience.
• 4-6 years of progressive experience in a cloud computing role.
• Knowledge of multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
• Experience managing and supporting cloud-based infrastructure and applications.
• Familiarity with deployment techniques and tools in a distributed environment.
• Experience with templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
• Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure solutions (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud). Cloud certifications are preferred.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages such as Python and/or PowerShell.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker Swarm, Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) for automated provisioning and configuration.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical subject matter to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface daily with internal customers.

What's Our Offer?

Salary Range: You`ll earn between $100,000 - $130,000 annually, depending on experience.

Bonus: You`ll be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus up to 10% of base salary.

Paid Time Off: You`ll accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 112 hours per year to start. Employees also receive 8 paid holidays and 1 paid family day off.

Additional Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
• Life insurance
• Short/long-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Pet insurance

What Should You Expect?

Hybrid: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work environment is moderately quiet. Ability to work on computer for multiple hours with frequent interruptions.

SanMar's Eastpointe office is located near Seattle, WA and our standard working hours are 8:00-5:00 PST. Quarterly travel may be required.

Why Work at SanMar?

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They bring their talent, passion and dedication to work with them every day. Their hard work inspires us and gives us purpose. We love working here together.

Whether you work in our headquarters, from your home or in one of our distribution centers across North America, we believe that investing in you is just the right thing to do. Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health and well-being, life balance, career growth and (eventually) retirement.

SanMar works with brands you already know, like Nike, The North Face and Brooks Brothers, as well as providing industry-leading private label apparel and accessories. Our people come to work excited to do their part, providing clothing that helps people feel that they're a part of something special.

Here's your chance to be a part of this story. If you're ready to work in a place where your participation matters and your growth is a priority, we're ready for you.

SanMar is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Whoever you are, wherever you're from, whoever you love or follow in faith, whatever your disability or superpower status, whichever ethnicity or gender you identify with, you are welcome at SanMar.

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