Platform & Cloud Engineer
About the role
The Platforms & Cloud Engineer at Trex is responsible for designing, administering, optimizing, and securing the organization's Microsoft Azure cloud environment and supporting platform infrastructure. This role serves as the technical owner of cloud services, ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and security of enterprise-hosted applications, systems, and services. The engineer partners with infrastructure, networking, security, and application teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions that align with business objectives, operational requirements, and technology strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead and foster our “people first” culture.
- Systems Administration: Serve as the primary owner and administrator of the organization's Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring platform stability, performance, and security.
- Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize Azure infrastructure, including virtual networks, virtual machines, storage, backup, recovery, and platform services.
- Manage Azure governance, including subscriptions, management groups, policies, resource tagging, cost controls, and compliance requirements.
- Monitor cloud infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance, proactively addressing issues before business impact occurs.
- Implement and maintain cloud security controls, identity management, conditional access policies, and security best practices in partnership with cybersecurity teams.
- Lead cloud architecture and platform modernization initiatives to improve scalability, resilience, operational efficiency, and service delivery.
- Support / Incident Management: Participate in on-call support and incident response activities as required to maintain critical service availability.
- Track, monitor and document interaction on tickets for timely resolution in a high availability manufacturing environment.
- Business Analysis: Interact and work closely with all facets of the business, understand functional requirements of the manufacturing organization, and translate them into actionable deliverables for IT. Liaison with other IT disciplines (Network, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Applications) to ensure proper support of projects and systems in operations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science (or like program) or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of progressive experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, or systems engineering environments.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Microsoft Azure in a production environment.
Required Skills
- Active Directory/DNS/DHCP/VPN/Load Balancing experience.
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with users of differing technical knowledge to translate business requirements and information.
- Microsoft Certified in Azure Administration, Solution Architecture, Security Engineering.
- Experience in HA manufacturing environments.
- Experience with Cisco UCS, VMWare, ESXi, Pure Storage.
- Experience with AWS Cloud Solution Architecture.
Benefits
- Time Off: Paid holidays and paid vacation.
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance: Coverage available.
- 401(k) With Company Match: Matching contributions.
- Tuition Reimbursement: Financial assistance for education.
- Training and Education: Various training programs.
- Stock Purchase Program: Discounted stock purchase option.
- Employee Discount Program: Discounts on Trex products.
Pay
SALARY Base Salary Range: $110,000-$130,000 annually. The salary range provided serves as a general guideline for potential compensation for this position. It reflects the base salary and does not account for other benefits or additional compensation opportunities that may apply. This role is also eligible for further compensation through an annual/sales bonus, in addition to the base salary. At Trex, individual base salaries are determined based on various factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.