Why Flowers?

Flowers Foods, Inc. (NYSE: FLO) is one of the largest producers of packaged bakery foods in the United States with 2022 sales of $4.8 billion. Among the company's top brands are Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, and Tastykake. Learn more at www.flowersfoods.com.

Our team is the essential ingredient to success. We embrace diversity and foster an environment that reflects our values of Honesty & Integrity, Respect & Inclusion, Sustainability, Passion, and Humility.

Full-time employees are offered:

Comprehensive health and medical benefits 401(k) Retirement savings plan Professional growth and leadership training Paid vacation, holidays, and parental leave

Benefits may vary depending on your work location and your participation in a collective bargaining unit.

Summary

The IT Cloud Engineer/Architect is responsible for deployment, administration, monitoring and support for Microsoft Azure, Power Automate, Teams/SharePoint and all other Office 365 services as well as any other duties assigned by IT management, with a strong focus on Office 365 services.

Position requires an incumbent with strong problem solving and analytical skills along with a fierce curiosity.

Position requires a collaborator who can help build a sense of trust and rapport, leading to a comfortable & effective workplace.

Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Manage, develop, design, deploy, and monitor all Flowers’ Azure infrastructure services, Azure, environments, Azure automation services, and Azure technology requirements, including 3rd part.
• Support design and implementation of processes and procedures for all Power Automate services
• Support and Monitor all Flowers Power Automate services for performance, resource availability and cost, including Power BI, Powerapps, Flow, Premium Capacity and Common Data Services. as well as monitoring and maintaining Power Automate licenses ensuring adherence to licensing requirements. e
• Support development, deployment and adherence of a Power Automate governance plan
• Support all 3rd party connectors including any requirements for connections to on-premise or Cloud data sources
• Teams / SharePoint Online Development and Administration
• Work with users at all levels to develop technical architecture and designs for scalable enterprise SharePoint Online solutions
• Monitor / Validate all allowed domains, guest accounts and external sharing links for sites and services
• Design solutions based on established patterns and best practices around Content Management, Records Management, User Adoption, Governance, Change Management, external access
• Support Integration with 3rd party applications
• Develop and maintain a Flowers end user training program for existing and new functionality
• Monitor, maintain, and support any Office 365 issues, storages, licenses – including renewal – and administrative tasks. Monitor all Flowers Office 365 service health, report on any incidents or advisories that impact Flowers services
• Work with security to develop and support DLP and AIP policies and tags
• Manage external Domain services including DNS, Webhosting and migration
• Conduct independent research, interpret highly technical documents, draw valid conclusions, develop technological solutions, take appropriate actions and/or make appropriate recommendation related to complex IT problems
• Manage all cloud-based information technology products and services to ensure high levels or performance and availability to the end users of the organization.
• Provide on-call/after-hours support as needed to support functions escalated by IT Service Center.
• Perform special projects and related tasks as requested
• Assist in the management and development of projects when requested
• Subscribe to and advocate core department standards and methodologies including Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), IT General Controls (ITGC), basic project management, and general IT policies & procedures
• Work with vendors and outside resources to support all Cloud based solutions and to insure adherence to Flowers standards.
• Work with users at all levels to ensure timely response and solutions to issues or inquiries.
• Manage vendors to ensure SLAs and MSAs are met and followed.
• Stay abreast of current and future application functions and updates
• Adhere to the policies and procedures set forth by the Information Technology department
• Practice and comply with all company policies and procedures (EEO, Sexual Harassment, Sarbanes – Oxley, Safety, etc.).
• Perform other duties deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including, but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures.

Desired Experience

• Knowledge and experience in the majority of Technical functions described above;
• Strong practical experience in the use of PowerShell;
• Experience with the development of an end user training program;
• Domain and DNS management; and
• Networking experience is a plus

Desired Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Microsoft certifications including Azure Fundamentals & Administration

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent total rewards package.  Please reply by 12/07/2024.  Resumes are active for 30 days.  Interested job seekers who successfully complete the series of pre-screening questions and who appear to possess the basic qualifications for this position may be contacted for a telephone interview.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability

 

If you need assistance with submitting your resume due to a medical condition or disability, please send an e-mail to HR.LSFlowers@flocorp.com.