Architect, Azure Cloud

Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards Lifesciences, we’re dedicated to developing ground-breaking technologies with a genuine impact on patients’ lives. At the core of this commitment is our investment in cutting-edge information technology. This supports our innovation and collaboration on a global scale, enabling our diverse teams to optimize both efficiency and success. As part of our IT team, your expertise and commitment will help facilitate our patient-focused mission by developing and enhancing technological solutions.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead implementation of robust cloud solutions that are scalable and meet the needs of New Product Development (NPD) while ensuring solutions architecture is in adherence to appropriate regulatory requirement
• Lead the implementation end-to-end solutions using Cloud services and microservices (e.g., IoT and Container Services) and partner with key stakeholders (e.g., BU) to evaluate business needs
• Implement IaC and establish DevOps pipelines for all Cloud Workloads
• Develop configuration management/application deployment using tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, and/or Chef) for assigned software products
• Partner with Cloud Ops and Security team in getting solution vetted before deployment
• Perform software code review for products
• Evaluate new IT technologies and build effective solutions for NPD
• Other duties as assigned by Management

What you’ll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or technical field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Management System)
• A minimum of six years experience

What else we look for (Preferred):

• Demonstrated experience with best of Breed Solutions, Cloud Infrastructure and Software solutions
• Demonstrated experience with Azure Fabric, DataLake, and Blob Storage
• Demonstrated experience on best practices for Azure account setup, governance, and architecture
• Demonstrated technical project management skills
• Experience with system engineering for combined hardware, software systems
• Java, Python or other Object-Oriented Programming and troubleshooting skills
• Proficiency with software tools for requirements management, engineering analysis, and statistical analysis
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Azure
• Familiarity with container and resource management technologies such as Kubernetes
• Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
• Extensive knowledge of Azure IaaS components like VMs, Virtual networks, Storage and PaaS components like App Service, Serverless computing, Storage
• Extensive knowledge of Azure VPCs, Subnets, routing.
• Extensive knowledge of Azure Compute, Storage, IoT, Developer Tools
• Extensive knowledge of IaC toolsets such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Powershell etc.
• Extensive knowledge of DevOps principles and ability to design automation pipelines for Cloud DevOps.
• Good programming skills in two or more of these languages - Javascript, Python, C++, Java

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $126,000 to $178,000 (highly experienced).