Cloud Architect at Medline Industries - Transportation & Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

Medline Industries continues to grow, and grow, and grow.  In fact, we've enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT growth in 56 of the past 57 years!  And we are AGAIN named as a Chicago Tribune Top Employer!   Doesn't that sound like the kind of place you'd want to join?  

Medline Industries has an immediate opening for an experienced Cloud Architect. As a cloud architect, you will work with business, functional, and technical teams throughout the design and implementation of objectives to ensure that the overall composition of the solution meets the goals of the Architecture team and its business sponsors.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct design reviews of new and existing architectures.
• Create reference architectures and standards to enable effective solution delivery.
• Design solutions for performance and cost optimization.
• Design automation solutions for reusability and consistency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Enterprise and Solution Architect Teams to review and create solution designs of new implementations or the introduction of new cloud technologies to ensure compliance with Medline standards.
• Mentor technical teams to ensure that cloud-based solutions are implemented effectively and efficiently.
• Create detailed architectural specifications to document the architecture decisions; communicate the architectural specifications to designers, developers, contractors, and business sponsors in a directly actionable, clear, and unambiguous manner.
• Identify technical risks upfront and bring them to the attention of management.
• Establish and enforce cloud policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, defining and monitoring governance frameworks for cloud operations, and managing risks associated with cloud adoption.
• Ensure alignment with business goals and objectives and facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure clear understanding and adherence to established standards.
• Stay current on cloud technology trends both in the industry and within the Medline landscape, including researching and implementing new and/or alternate technologies that will further business goals and provide competitive advantages.
• Develop cloud migration strategies to help organizations transition from on-premises infrastructure to cloud-based solutions.
• Drive efficient cloud automation methodology for full infrastructure-as-code development and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to the IT team and stakeholders to ensure that cloud-based solutions are functioning effectively and efficiently.

Knowledge, skills, abilities:

• Experience architecting and developing scalable, distributed, or web-based applications.
• Architecture experience with some or all of these cloud concepts: Infrastructure as a Service, Serverless Architecture, Container Architecture, Platform as a Service, Storage, Infrastructure as Code, and Identity and Access Management.
• Experience designing solutions using the Azure suite of PaaS offerings such as Application Gateway, APIM, Azure AKS, Azure AD B2C, Azure Cosmos, Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, etc.
• Experience provisioning and managing Azure Infrastructure using automation.
• Experience migrating applications to the Azure cloud.
• Strong problem-solving characteristics with the ability to think out of the box.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with internal team members as well as business stakeholders and enjoy working with others in a collaborative fashion.
• Experience using Terraform to perform infrastructure as code preferred.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or related experience.

More About Medline: 

Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing thousands of products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.  

Founded in 1910, Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving $25 billion global enterprise because of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.  

Again, named one of the country’s "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For,” and once again named to Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces, Medline has experienced fifty-plus years of consecutive annual growth, and is headquartered in Northfield, IL. 

DISCLAIMER

All duties and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor(s)/manager(s).

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" employment relationship.

Benefits - Medline is committed to offering competitive benefits and a variety of choices to best meet the needs of you and your family. For employees scheduled to work at least 30 hours per week, this includes health and well-being, financial fitness, career development, paid time off and more. Employees scheduled to work less than 30 hours per week can participate in the 401(k) plan, access the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Employee Resource Groups (ERG) and Medline Service Corps. For a more comprehensive list of our benefits, please click

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Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.