Job Title:  Sr.Specialist / Expert - Cloud Infrastructure

About Colgate-Palmolive

Do you wish to come to work with a smile and leave with one as well? In between those smiles, your day consists of working in a global organization, continually learning and collaborating, having stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions!

If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be!

Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. The pride in our brand cultivates a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity which has contributed to our enduring success. 

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day.

The Experience

In today’s dynamic technology environment, it is an exciting time to be a part of the information technology team at Colgate. Our highly technical and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this constantly evolving landscape.

What role will you play as a member of the Colgate?

Design, develop and test to create quality solutions on time and within budget. To collaborate with business teams / functional teams and IT counterparts for daily support incidents and project activities in different business areas across all geographies.

Ability to understand the requirements related to business problems and transform that into a solution design.

Who are you…

You are a Cloud Engineer - 

• Collaborate with Application Development, FinOps, Cloud, Governance, and Security teams to help formulate and implement a comprehensive cloud strategy. This includes developing frameworks, internal standards, governing policies, and procedures that align with organizational goals.

• Support FinOps initiatives by working closely with finance teams to optimize cloud spending, providing insights into cost management, and helping to forecast future cloud expenditures.

• Guide application teams by offering technical leadership in cloud architecture, ensuring that solutions are design for optimal deployment, security, performance, and high availability.

• Develop and maintain a balanced cloud governance framework based on industry standards, ensuring compliance with security protocols and other regulatory requirements.

• Evaluate and implement proof-of-concepts for emerging cloud services and technologies, ensuring that the organization stays ahead of industry trends.

• Drive cloud adoption and innovation by exploring new cloud services, finding opportunities to demonstrate them for business growth, and ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.

• Collaborate with teams on new and existing business/technology solutions, ensuring they align with established standards and contribute to long-term cloud strategy.

• Perform regular cloud cost reviews and provide recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

• Mentor and support teams in understanding cloud technologies, standard methodologies, and operational processes.

• Stay informed of industry-wide trends and their potential impact or application to the business, ensuring the organization’s cloud strategy remains forward-looking and innovative.

• Complete other responsibilities as assigned and ensure compliance with all company policies and standards.

You connect the dots - 

• Support day to day business requirements according to global SLA
• Ensure the proper use of information technology project management methodology to align with governance practices

You are a collaborator - 

• Build effective working relationships, make sound decisions, successfully make changes, initiate action and achieve results as a trusted advisor
• Collaborate by organizing discussions with department stakeholders to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, and high availability in the cloud.
• Consult with stakeholders on requirements for new and existing business/technology solutions and assure compliance to standards.
• Mentor and coach junior resources within and across teams

You are an innovator - 

• Stay updated with the latest technological advancement. Adapt to these changes by self-training and research work and evaluate how / where it can contribute to the business and strengthen the cloud environment

What we’ll need…(Required)

• At least 4-6 years in Cloud Engineering

• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, team environment

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally

• Superior organization, project management skills and attention to detail

• Strong understanding of cloud computing capabilities and limitations, business drivers, virtualization technologies,

• Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service Cloud delivery models

• A strong ability to learn new technologies

• Thorough understanding of system and infrastructure management in the Cloud environment (Linux/Windows servers, firewalls, load balancers, hypervisors, storage, monitoring, security etc.)

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, etc.)

• Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Kubernetes Engine. Hands-on experience with AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda is acceptable and can be considered as a good foundation for the required GCP expertise

• Proficiency in configuring and handling virtual networks, including VPC, subnets, and firewall rules.

• Experience handling infrastructure deployments using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform).

• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash etc for automating cloud operations.

• Command of software automation production systems (GitHub, Selenium, etc.).

• Good  understanding of security principles and standard methodologies, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance requirements.

What we’’ll need…(Preferred)

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering.

• Google Cloud Architect within 1 Year (Preferred) or AWS Certified Solution Architect - Professional. 

• Experience in architecting, implementing, and handling multi-cloud environments.

• Understanding of infrastructure correlations with knowledge of servers, networking, AD, security etc

• Proficiency in handling and optimizing cloud costs using tools like Google Cloud's Cost Management tools or AWS Cost Explorer and other Finops methodologies.

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.

• Understanding of or ability to design solutions across on-premise and multiple public cloud tiers (hybrid).