Cloud Infrastructure Strategist

Overview

Fisher Investments is at the forefront of innovation, driving growth and excellence through cutting-edge technology. As an exciting opportunity to join our team emerges, we seek an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Strategist to spearhead our Azure-based cloud infrastructure. If you're passionate about architecting scalable and strategic solutions, we invite you to explore this opportunity.

The Opportunity

As a hands-on leader, you will mentor, support, and teach a team of cloud engineers in designing, implementing, and managing our Azure-based cloud infrastructure. You will consult and contribute to process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls, and infrastructure, ensuring seamless alignment with company goals. Your expertise will drive the adoption of new technologies, techniques, and tools to enhance efficiency and service quality.

The Day-to-Day

• Guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Conduct regular team meetings for architecture/design reviews, code reviews, cross-team collaboration opportunities, and training sessions to ensure continuous development and alignment with company goals.
• Aide in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks.
• Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage to achieve cost efficiency.
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls, and meet cloud computing best practices.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and disseminate this knowledge to the team.
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations, and recommend solutions, optimizations, and remediation.
• Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and documentation.

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross-platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise.
• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments.
• Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks, and other integration aspects.
• Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration.
• Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef).

Compensation

The estimated salary for this position is $100,000-$180,000 per year, based on experience. New hires should expect to start at the lower end of the range. Additionally, eligible candidates may be considered for a discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance.

Why Fisher Investments

We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. Our inclusive culture, learning and development framework, and Great Place to Work Certification set us apart. We invest in our people, offering exceptional benefits, including:

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents.
• A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum.
• 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays.
• Family Support programs including 8-week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance and back-up child, adult, and elder care.
• $10,000 fertility, hormonal health, and family-forming benefit.
• Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work-from-home program.

Fisher Investments is an equal opportunity employer.