About Appriss Retail

Appriss Retail provides real-time decisions and active risk monitoring to enable our customers to maximize profitability while managing risk.  Our solutions are continually adapting to changing market conditions. 

We bring 20+ years of retail data science expertise and experience.  We serve a global base of leading commerce partners, representing 1/3 of all US omnichannel retail sales activity across 150,000 retail locations across specialty, apparel, department store, hard goods, big box, grocery, pharmacy, and hospitality businesses in 45 countries on six continents.

The company provides compelling, relevant, and profitable collective intelligence to operations, finance, marketing, and loss prevention. Appriss Retail’s performance-improvement solutions yield measurable results with significant return on investment.

About the role

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for all facets of our infrastructure across Appriss Retail’s Azure subscriptions. They will provide expertise in architecting, implementing, and operationalizing new and existing infrastructure, data management, and cloud technology initiatives to improve security, performance, and resource utilization. 

What you'll do

• Leverage strong Azure expertise to modify/improve/develop/test the platform/infrastructure using appropriate tools, coding standards, best practices, automation, and new technology to meet customer requirements. 

• Infrastructure Scripting capabilities – help design and create automation scripts and code for resource configuration and deployment. 

• Proficient in creating proof-of-concepts to assess architectural feasibility and viability.  

• Understanding of the design and ability to resolve production outages in conjunction with application, support, and platform services team. 

• Develop clear and concise documentation regarding technical solutions and share knowledge with teammates, benefits and drawbacks of different architectural solutions, etc. 

• Be cost conscious and track Azure billing changes/identify opportunities to lower costs. 

• Define monitoring alerts for the infrastructure based on best practices, experiences, and root cause analysis.  Respond to those alerts both during business hours and an on-call rotation. 

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in a computer related field or comparable experience. 

• 2+ years of experience with Azure and other public cloud services. 

• 2+ years of experience with software code design, development, testing and maintenance. 

• 2+ years of experience with Terraform and other IaC technologies. 

• Experience building and maintaining Azure networking, routing, & firewalling.  

• Demonstrable experience  with PaaS based solutions including but not limited to App Services, Azure SQL DB, & Azure Functions. 

• Experience with Python, PowerShell or Bash. 

• Exposure to large scale infrastructure. 

• A desire to continuously build expertise in new technologies. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

Benefits

Appriss Retail offers competitive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage. We offer an immediate vesting 401(k) plan with employer matching, unlimited paid time off for salaried employees, and well-being support including gym reimbursements, a subscription to Calm – Meditation and Sleep app, and paid leave for new parents and family care. As a hybrid global community, we also offer a remote work-first environment empowering our people to work wherever suits their lifestyle.