FuelCell Energy is a global leader in decarbonizing power and producing hydrogen through our proprietary fuel cell technology.
Our mission is to enable a world powered by clean energy.
As an innovator and manufacturer of fuel cell clean power platforms, FuelCell Energy has the only technology in the world capable of capturing carbon from an external source and producing power at the same time.
In addition, we offer the only technology in the world capable of producing hydrogen, power and water simultaneously.
Summary:
This role will manage, maintain, and support FuelCell Energy’s Azure cloud-based infrastructure to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure operations, while maximizing the value of subscribed systems and services.
This is a hands-on technologist role, reporting to the Director of Infrastructure Services, and will have responsibility for all aspects of the company’s cloud-base computing infrastructure and services.
Essential Functions/Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assess current Azure instance and create continuous improvement roadmap.
- Define cloud systems strategy to maximize the return on IT investments, while meeting or exceeding uptime and performance expectations.
- Design, plan, and implement Azure based systems and services in support of functional, storage, compute, data integration, and systems security initiatives.
- Closely collaborate with IT Security and internal Engineering teams to ensure that new or updated solutions and services comply with the enterprise cyber security standards.
- Proactively identify and apply system updates to prevent issues, strengthen security, tune performance, automate tasks, and manage costs.
- Monitor Azure systems operations and address alerts, anomalies, and issues
- Support HA, DR, Backup, and retention policies on Azure platforms using native options and third-party tools like Rubric.
- Maintain zero trust endpoint security with tools such as Z-scalar.
- Manage cloud networking and security (Firewalls, NSGs, ASGs, WAFs) and monitor the logging of systems.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of IT policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance with IT General Controls, provide needed information in support of audits and to substantiate process and controls compliance.
- Produce documentation that allows other staff members to understand the deployment and maintain and troubleshoot it.
- Contribute to non-cloud infrastructure projects and activities as skills and time avails.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Education: High school education at minimum, bachelor’s degree in technology related major preferred
- Experience: Minimum 10 years of IT experience, with at least of 5 years working in an Azure cloud environment
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Expertise in Azure cloud system oversight, performance tuning, and administration.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security technologies and best practices
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code: design and security, configuration management, integration, deployment, performance monitoring and tuning, automation of infrastructure.
- Experience with ARM templates and Terraform to enable automation.
- Experience with Active Directory Administration, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy Administration
- Experience with networking and networking protocols & services
- Familiarity with deployment techniques (and tools) in a distributed environment.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with a high degree of comfort with varying types of audiences
- Emotional intelligence, flexible work style, and excellent diplomatic skills across all levels of an organization
- Experience designing and delivering complex solutions on time and with expected quality.
- Experience supporting various compliance and regulatory frameworks.
- Ability to multi-task, establish priorities, work independently, mange time, and deliver on commitments.
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions:
- Hybrid on-site in Danbury, CT preferred, but will consider full-time remote, with periodic travel to company offices and manufacturing facilities.
(1 to 4 trips per year – approximately 5% travel)
- Extended sitting and computer work
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