About this role
<p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><strong><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure)</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000">T<span style="font-size:14.0pt">he <strong>Cloud Platform Engineer </strong>is an experienced cloud engineering professional responsible for independently designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting Microsoft Azure platform solutions across the enterprise. This role owns a defined domain within the Azure ecosystem and plays a key part in driving technical excellence, platform reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">As a trusted engineering contributor, you will influence technical decisions, strengthen operational maturity, and continuously improve the stability and performance of our cloud environments. You will collaborate closely with Cloud Architects, DevSecOps Engineers, and Software Engineers to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable cloud-native and hybrid solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and governance frameworks.</span></p> <p><br><br><span style="background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;background-color:white">Responsibilities</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Design and implement Azure cloud platform solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Own day-to-day engineering activities across Azure infrastructure and cloud-native services.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Provision, manage, and troubleshoot Azure platform components including networking, identity, compute, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless capabilities.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex platform issues.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Deliver and maintain Azure cloud solutions using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and declarative provisioning practices.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Implement and maintain scalable, resilient, and highly available Azure platform services aligned with enterprise cloud standards</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Implement containerized workloads and support microservices architectures within Azure.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Deploy and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters including networking, storage, scaling, and security configurations.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Support architecture, capacity, performance, resiliency, and lifecycle planning across Azure environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Develop and maintain documentation, standards, guardrails, and support procedures for Azure environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Optimize Azure cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency through rightsizing, autoscaling, and FinOps-aligned practices.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Contribute to disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability strategies to maintain operational resilience.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Contribute to automation, monitoring, and service improvement efforts.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to enable proactive incident detection and operational excellence.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Participate in Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) initiatives by sharing best practices and driving standardization.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Provide guidance to less experienced engineers as needed.</span></li> <li style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Partner with stakeholders to support project and operational objectives.</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt"><strong>Candidates Profile </strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Extensive experience in Cloud Engineering or Platform Engineering roles in enterprise environments.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Experience supporting hybrid cloud architectures integrating on-premises with Azure.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000;font-size:14.0pt">Experience contributing to enterprise cloud governance and platform standardization initiatives.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;background-color:white;color:#000000">Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"> </p> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"> </p> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"> </p> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"> </p> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"><span style="color:white">#LI-DNI</span></p> <p style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:verdana, geneva, sans-serif;color:#000000;margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px"> </p><p> </p> <p>Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.</p> <p> </p> <p>McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.</p> <p> </p> <p>As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.</p>