Advanced Cloud Engineer

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154
*** Why Valmont
***** We’re Here to Move the World Forward.
** Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a
* Fortune* 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today.
* We are the modern workforce*.
** A Brief Summary of This Position:**“
* Conserving Resources, Improving Lives”.
* That is what Valmont is about. We are a growing $4B company which is significantly investing in digital transformation. This is a critical initiative which is key to meeting our revenue targets.
** This position will be a lead developer within our IT Cloud Center of Excellence team, helping to architect, deliver and support new and existing cloud platforms across all BU’s.
** It is essential to embody Valmont’s core values of Passion, Integrity, Continuous Improvement, and Delivering Results while cultivating a workplace where employees feel valued, trusted, understood, and respected.
*
* Essential Functions:

**** Incidental Functions:
**** Required Qualifications of Every Candidate:
*** Preferred Bachelor’s with 6+ years relevant experience or associate’s degree with 8+ years relevant experience or 10+ years relevant experience.
* 6+ years of experience in:  + Design, manage, and develop information systems.  + System analysis, documentation and designing technical specifications of the processes.  + Cloud service and tenant design and implementation.  + Proven leadership in enterprise cloud strategy, governance, and solution delivery.  + Strong proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and CI/CD tools.  + Designing and implementing automated configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment across hybrid environments.  

+ Develop migration plans, scripts, and automation tools to streamline repository transfers and configuration.
* Excellent knowledge in project methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall.
* Self-starter who demonstrates creativity in solving problems or generating improvement ideas and works well with team members.
* Proven ability to work collaboratively across an organization.
* Experience with multi-cloud strategy and vendor management.
* Lead the end-to-end migration of repositories, pipelines, and integrations from Bitbucket and other version control systems to Git Hub Enterprise.
* Establish governance policies including branching strategies, pull request workflows, and code review standards.
* Work with project managers to ensure migration timelines and milestones are met.
* Communicate progress and risks to stakeholders and leadership.
* Track cloud usage and spending across platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
* Identify underutilized resources and recommend cost-saving actions.
* Implement and manage role-based access control (RBAC), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access management.
* Support budgeting, forecasting, and chargeback/show back models.
* Design and enforce identity federation and single sign-on (SSO) across cloud platforms.
** Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These

Qualifications:

*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer sciences or MIS.
* Integration experience with:  + Microsoft Azure  + Microsoft Azure Dev/Ops  + Git Hub Enterprise for source control and CI/CD workflows  + Infrastructure-as-Code platforms such as Hashi Corp Terraform  + Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration Management using Red Hat Ansible  + Bitbucket and other version control systems  + Apptio for financial transparency and operational insights into IT and cloud services  + Dev Secops tools such as Synk to find and fix vulnerabilities in the code, open-source dependencies and infrastructure as code  + Evaluate, validate and…