Requisition ID: 32757 

Job Description:
 

About the role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

We are currently looking for an Infrastructure Solutions Architect. Reporting to the Manager, IT Architecture, the Solutions Architect will contribute to the success of the IT Architecture program. This position is focused on design concepts and the ability to provide a consultative role to our business. The ideal candidate would have a mix of architect and operations experience and is expected to interface with stakeholders, to define and reach an understanding of their technical requirements. Designing, documenting, sizing the work effort, and determining the needed skills and resources for projects and having strong process, time management and communication skills.

Accountabilities:

• Analyze requirements - Using your experience and knowledge of both the business and systems footprint to analyze new or existing requirements to understand impact on applications and network infrastructure

• Road maps – Develop & maintain platform road maps for McCain. This will require working collaboratively with our business units, other IT Architects, application support teams, vendor management teams, project teams and Operations teams

• Develop - Our future state architecture for our data centers and network in collaboration with other Technology Services teams through the creation of new technical service offerings for our operations team

• Create - White papers and presentations for senior leadership on new and upcoming technologies and clearly articulate the value our business will receive from implementing these technologies

• Coaching – Challenge others to develop as leaders, while serving as a role model.  Share acquired skills and business/system knowledge with team members through formal and information channels

• Continued learning – Stay current on industry technologies, trends, and best practices

• Communicate - Effective communication both verbally and written to IS project team members, IS staff and IS management

• Develop and/or review architectural and detailed designs to insure it meats the requirements of McCain

• Assist in the creation of complex solutions both on-premises and in the cloud

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• University degree in Computer Science (or related field of study) or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Solutions Architect with an emphasis on supporting complex environments

• Hands-on experience with complex enterprise systems, networks and technologies

• Accountable to ensure solutions are stable, scalable, capable of providing consistently acceptable performance and reliability

• A track record of implementing and maintaining best practices and standards

• Ability to assess new initiatives to determine work effort and estimate time-to-completion 

• Applied knowledge of ITIL and enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF is considered an asset

• Microsoft Azure Certifications such as:

• Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Skills:

• A clear understanding of core Azure Cloud Computing services

• A detailed understanding of Networking, Databases, Software, APIs, Logic/Function Apps and Servers in the Cloud. 

• Experience in designing, building, deploying, operating, and optimizing resources in Azure

• Support cloud migration/implementations

• Experience in Digital Manufacturing solutions – Factory Talk, OSiPi, Pavilion, High Byte

• Detailed understanding of Azure Data services – Cosmos, SQL Paas, Postgres, AKS, Azure Data factory, Data pipeline services, Synapse

• Experience in C#, .Net SDK and Angular Apps

• Hands-on experience with IaC and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible

• Proficiency in Python, Scripting YAML[SR1] , Microsoft DevOps, Terraform (IaC), Bash, etc.) for automation tasks.

• Expert level of proficiency with performance and scalability on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience working with edge compute and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).

• Demonstrated experience developing and/or architecting performant applications in public cloud.

• Demonstrated experience in implementing cloud observability, across complex cloud workloads and technology stacks.

• Demonstrated experience working with various cloud native technologies and services including compute, storage, networking, security and data services.

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling and practices.

• Understanding of the Agile project management framework

• Experience, from a design perspective, in the following Azure areas:

• Azure Networking:

• Virtual Networks (IP Addressing, VNet Peering and Virtual Network Connections

• Hybrid connectivity (Virtual Hubs, Virtual Network Gateways, site-to-site VPN, ExpressRoute)

• Orchestrating Routing Paths, especially in a Hybrid Cloud including the use of BGP

• Azure Load Balancers

• Azure Bastion Hosts

• Monitor Resources and Log Analytics:

• Use Log Analytics to write a simple query and charts

• Direct resource logs to a centralized log analytics workspace for monitoring/reporting

• Compute:

• Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• Virtual Machine cost optimization, performance, and security

• Backup strategies and Fail-over Recovery

• Storage:

• Securing Data against unauthorized access

• Backing Up strategies that allow for efficient restores

• long-term archival storage to maintain corporate compliance

• Application Workloads in Azure:

• Synapse Data Warehouse

• SQL Managed Instances

• Azure API Management Services

• Logic Apps / Function Apps

• Azure Data Factories

• Azure Machine Learning

• Backup strategies, Fail-over Recovery and Disaster Recovery

• Security and Protecting Identities:

• Encrypting data in transit, at rest, and in use

• Protecting Azure Active Directory accounts against compromise

• Reducing the attack surface of all your Azure resources

• Azure Firewalls, Azure VPN Gateways and NVAs

• Azure Application Gateways/Web Application Firewalls

• NSGs & ASGs

• Azure Private Endpoints

• Private DNS Zones

• Azure B2B and B2C

• Azure Costs Controls

• Azure Budgets and Budget Alerts, & Budget Dashboards

• Reporting on Azure Consumption

• Azure Resource reservations

• Azure Resource Deployments

• Terraform to deploy and manage Azure resources, assign RBAC

• Azure DevOps to deploy resources

• Azure DevOps, GitHub Pipeline, Github For Advanced Security

• Understanding of Azure Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans and Artifacts

• Create new organizations

• Add users to organizations and projects using best practices

About McCain.

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

The McCain experience.

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

Compensation Package: $102,700.00 - $137,000.00 CAD annually + bonus eligibility 

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.