Overview:

Waters Corporation is looking for an Azure CloudOps Engineer to join our IT Cloud Operations team. This role will focus on Azure infrastructure provisioning and automation, with primary responsibility for leading infrastructure as code (IaC) initiatives. The Engineer will make full use of the cloud to configure highly resilient and scalable applications that support zero downtime. Collaboration with business colleagues, IT team members, and external resources will be necessary for gathering requirements and implementing the next generation of cloud capabilities, ensuring an excellent customer experience.

At Waters, we are dedicated to driving technology forward and believe that hiring and developing top talent leads to a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures, ultimately creating better products and services and a welcoming and dynamic workplace. We expect our engineers to be versatile, display leadership skills, and be eager to tackle new problems across the full stack. As we strive to innovate and advance technology, we need your passion and expertise to help us achieve our goals.

A successful candidate will possess a good understanding and passion for cloud technologies and experience in delivering and supporting cloud applications. A self-starter attitude, excellent communication skills, and dedication to innovative technologies are critical to excelling in this role.

Responsibilities:

Design, provision, configure, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available Azure cloud infrastructure.

Deploy, configure, secure, and monitor Azure services using tools like Terraform or Azure DevOps pipelines.

Collaborate with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements.

Set up metrics, logging, and monitoring systems on the Azure platform.

Handle incident management, change management, and access management in ServiceNow.

Optimize Azure/cloud resources for cost, security, scalability, and high availability.

Provide recommendations for architecture and process improvements.

Perform off-hours maintenance and support of the platform as needed

Implement automation to improve workflow, efficiency, productivity, and technology deployment.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) or a related field preferred

Minimum of 2 years of experience in building and maintaining Azure infrastructure or AWS cloud platforms

Experience in designing, configuring, and maintaining services for metrics, logging, and monitoring of the platform

Hands-on automation creation experience with proficiency in one or more - PowerShell, Linux/Bash Shell, Terraform, JSON, and YAML

Good understanding of securing Azure environments and meeting compliance requirements

Hands-on experience deploying and leading infrastructure with Terraform

Ability to learn/use various open-source technologies and tools

Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Cloud experiences in AWS or GCP would be a plus                      #LI-Hybrid

Company Description:

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. 

Key Words:

Cloud, CloudOps, DevOps, Azure, Terraform, AWS