Cloud CoE Technology Owner

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Diverse Associates to act daily towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

Job Description:

The Cloud Technology Owner is a recognized expert in their technical domain, responsible for maintaining, modernizing, and optimizing cloud compute services in a steady state. They provide strategic guidance on technical decisions, enforce best practices, and offer deep expertise in cloud engineering, architecture, and implementation. Acting as a trusted advisor, they often consult across teams on cloud-related matters. This role demands strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP), on-prem server management, Windows environments, storage technologies, and orchestration tools. The Cloud Technology Owner ensures technology solutions align with business goals while collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and continuously enhance scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud-based systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Deep technical understanding of cloud computing services, including virtual machines, storage, serverless computing and containers on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or hybrid environments.
Provide expert guidance and consultation to engineering, platform, and product teams on cloud compute architecture, operating systems (including Windows), and operational excellence.
Define and manage the compute technology roadmap to ensure alignment with business goals, evolving technology standards, and cloud provider innovations.
Continuously assess and improve the performance, cost-efficiency, reliability, and scalability of compute services. Drive modernization of legacy and Windows-based workloads.
Design secure, scalable compute environments, including those supporting Windows workloads, enterprise storage solutions, and hybrid cloud storage architectures.
Oversee full lifecycle management of compute and storage services—from design and deployment to monitoring, tuning, upgrades, and decommissioning.
Provide architectural and operational expertise for cloud and hybrid storage technologies (e.g., block, object, and file storage), backup strategies, and data lifecycle management.
Ensure all solutions align with enterprise security, governance, and compliance standards, including those related to storage access and data retention.
Partner with cloud platform teams, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and application owners to deliver reliable and optimized compute and storage capabilities.
Stay current with emerging trends in compute, Windows OS support, storage platforms, and cloud-native technologies.

Qualifications Required:

Great experience of experience in cloud infrastructure and compute engineering
Deep expertise in one or more public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managing compute workloads (e.g., EC2, Azure VMs, GCE)
Strong experience managing and migrating Windows-based workloads in cloud environments.
Familiarity with cloud-native and hybrid storage technologies (e.g., EBS, Azure Files, S3, Blob, NFS, NetApp, etc.)
Proficiency in DevOps practices, IaC, and scripting with tools like Terraform, Bash, and PowerShell, as well as Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
Understanding of security, availability, and cost optimization for compute and storage services
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Language: English

Desirable:

Professional cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Architect Expert)
Experience with Active Directory, Windows Server, and related cloud integrations
Knowledge of storage tiering, backup and disaster recovery solutions
Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost management

#TBDDT

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.