Solutions Architect – Cloud Platforms

About First Quality

Founded over 35 years ago, First Quality is a family‑owned company that has grown from a small business in McElhattan, Pennsylvania into a group of companies, employing over 5,000 team members, while maintaining our family values and entrepreneurial spirit. With corporate offices in New York and Pennsylvania and 8 manufacturing campuses across the U.S. and Canada, the companies within the First Quality group produce high‑quality personal care and household products for large retailers and healthcare organizations.

Products & Portfolio

Our personal care and household product portfolio includes baby diapers, wipes, feminine pads, paper towels, bath tissue, adult incontinence products, laundry detergents, fabric finishers, and dishwash solutions. In addition, we manufacture certain raw materials and components used in the manufacturing of these products, including flexible print and packaging solutions.

Values & Culture

Guided by our values of humility, unity, and integrity, we leverage advanced technology and innovation to drive growth and create new opportunities. At First Quality, you’ll find a collaborative environment focused on continuous learning, professional development, and our mission to Make Things Better®.

Cloud Services Team

The Cloud Services Team within IT Infrastructure provides strategic direction, technical/functional expertise, and platform management for First Quality’s Public Cloud hosting environments and DevOps platforms, including Microsoft Azure and future builds in AWS. The Cloud Platform Architect will ensure that cloud platform designs are scalable, reliable, optimized for performance, cost‑effective, secure, maintainable, and seamlessly integrate with current on‑premises and existing cloud infrastructure. They will design and implement solutions that adhere to First Quality IT architectural standards as well as follow industry best practices. They will ensure that all cloud platforms and environments are designed and delivered at optimal levels, while maintaining the highest levels of security readiness.

They will establish policies and provisions to prevent unauthorized access or misuse of cloud environments.

This individual is responsible for developing processes and procedures as they pertain to DevOps CI/CD pipeline management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments, configuration management, lifecycle management, operations, administration, and maintenance of cloud platforms and environments both in the public and private cloud. They will work closely with the Cloud Platform Build Team and Operations Team to ensure service transition is completed according to First Quality standards.

This position serves as the lead IT Infrastructure design resource for Azure and future AWS cloud platforms including, but not limited to, compute, storage, networking, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, security & identity, management, and monitoring. As such this person is responsible for service transition to the Support Organization and serves as the L4 support escalation point for these services. The person in this position owns their assigned system(s) and interacts with all divisions and departments within First Quality.

The person will be held accountable for the initial design, deployment, and configuration of cloud platforms and environments with the goal of fully utilizing their capabilities. The person in this position will work closely with the leaders and associates of First Quality’s IT and Information Security organizations to maintain a complete end‑to‑end Cloud Platform lifecycle (architecture, delivery, to support). As such, proven evidence of being a “team player” is critical for success in this role.

Primary Responsibilities

• ** Responsible for establishing enterprise architectural standards and producing reference architecture documents related to Public and Hybrid Cloud environments.
• Defines Cloud DevOps processes, procedures, and CI/CD pipelines to govern Cloud Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments.
• Creates technology roadmaps with an emphasis on delivering “value to the business” and aligning with organizational goals.
• Assists with demand planning, scheduling, and managing projects.
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