Cleveland-Cliffs Looking for Senior IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer at Cleveland, OH Full Time

Cleveland-Cliffs Steel has an immediate opportunity for a Senior IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer at our Cleveland HQ, West Chester, Burns Harbor or Indiana Harbor offices. This position will be responsible for the design, evaluation, monitoring, and maintenance of the information systems hosted in the various Azure and Oracle cloud environments for Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.  This role is responsible for the application architecture and infrastructure planning, along with the design of functional specifications.  It will require building deep expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, PaaS, Security, Storage, and Networking technologies).  The ideal candidate will have prior steel industry experience, be self-motivated and thrive in a fast-paced work environment with complex operations.

Summary of Responsibilities:

• Designs, implements, recommends, and supports cloud standards.
• Analyzes, designs, and implements cost-effective solutions to complex business problems according to user specifications.
• Helps to develop and implement cloud based disaster recovery plans/procedures.
• Administration, planning, and lifecycle management of the Azure, Oracle and any future cloud environments.
• Oracle Linux administration.
• Develops migration strategies to close gaps between current and future states of infrastructure architectures.
• Lead and direct the creation of governing principles to guide decision-making pertinent to infrastructure architecture.
• Ensure optimal governance structure and comply with activities related to infrastructure architecture adherence.
• Perform additional duties as directed by IT leadership.
• Implement / maintain automated monitoring to ensure proactive handling of issues to minimize unplanned downtime
• Provide support for other team members as required.
• Ability to respond to emergency service calls at any time outside of normally assigned work hours.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or an equivalent degree.
• Manufacturing industry experience is preferred; mining or steel experience is a plus.
• 8+ years of technical experience within a corporate IT environment.
• 5+ years of cloud administration experience.
• Problem solving – some experience in a professional environment demonstrating the ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Experience in a customer facing capacity.
• Effectively able to diagnose/troubleshoot on various technologies.
• Ability to communicate with and understand the needs of non-technical constituents, both internal and external.
• Demonstrated experience working on projects, training, designing process solutions, and directly interacting with customers.
• Ability to research, prepare, and present cost estimates, budget reports, capacity forecasting, and systems upgrade recommendations.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documents and procedure manuals.
• Strong interpersonal skills, oral communication skills, and proven analytical and creative problem-solving abilities.
• A strong customer service orientation.
• Experience working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certification in one or more of the following areas:
  • Azure Solution Architect
  • OCI Infrastructure
  • OCI Architect Associate or Professional
• Hands-on OCI or Azure experience with designing and implementing Cloud Infrastructure architectures.
• Oracle LINUX/Unix administration and scripting experience.
• Oracle/Azure interconnect
• Windows, Linux, VMware VM, VMware ESXi, VMware Networking, Physical Hardware, Azure IaaS, Azure SQL, Azure PaaS, Networking On-Premises, Firewall

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is the largest flat-rolled steel company and the largest iron ore pellet producer in North America. The Company is vertically integrated from mined raw materials, direct reduced iron, and ferrous scrap to primary steelmaking and downstream finishing, stamping, tooling, and tubing. We offer an excellent total compensation package including top pay with variable compensation opportunity, health insurance, retirement plan, education assistance, paid time off and more!.

As a company, we are doing what we can to keep all our employees safe and healthy.  It is the current expectation that all Cleveland-Cliffs employees will be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible.  Before accepting an offer of employment you must certify that you are fully vaccinated.  Cleveland-Cliffs reserves the right to require proof of vaccination.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to 

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 or call 1-(312) 899-3097 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Do not email your application materials to this email address. Application materials sent to this email address will not be considered.

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is an equal opportunity employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. We are a drug-free workplace and conduct pre-employment screening as a condition of employment.