Cloud Architect

See What We’re All About 

As the fastest growing distributor of foodservice equipment parts, we like to do things a little differently. We believe our team should be like family. Not like a second cousin, twice removed, but more like the family you choose to be with every day. First, you have to demonstrate our core values and keep safety as your #1 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 foodservice equipment 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, fifteen 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 three consecutive years in 2020, 2021, and 2022.  

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.  

Pay 

$127, 828 - $156,235 a year 

Quarterly profit-sharing eligibility 

Bonus eligible opportunity 

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. 

Salary : $156,235 - $828,000