Sr. Cloud Health and Standards Specialist

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA•St. Louis, MO

1d•$100,364 - $141,458

About The Position

The Senior Cloud Health and Standards Specialist owns defined cloud-health and account-administration processes for New Business Models (NBM) environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Working independently with limited supervision, the specialist maintains account context, identifies risks and recurring gaps, drives adoption of approved standards, and follows actions through to closure with the teams responsible for affected platforms and products. The role turns account and platform signals into clear reporting, timely escalation, and practical improvements to review, tracking, and automation workflows. The specialist owns assigned operational processes and improvement projects, while platform, security, FinOps, and product owners retain their technical, control, funding, and delivery decisions. Cloud health in this role means maintaining compliant, cost-controlled, and consistently standardized cloud environments. The position is part of Nestlé Purina’s New Business Models team, which develops and maintains technology and digital products in pet care.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, cloud operations, cloud governance, security, FinOps, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
At least 3 years of experience supporting cloud governance or operations, including areas such as cloud health, security and compliance, cost management, technical currency, operational standards, or remediation.
At least 2 years of experience improving cloud processes through automation and tooling, such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), dashboards, policy checks, ticketing, or reporting, while coordinating work across technical teams and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS Organizations, Azure management groups or subscriptions, GCP organizations or projects, or comparable multi-account structures.
Experience with cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, cloud financial management, or technical lifecycle programs.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day cloud health and account administration processes across assigned AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts, subscriptions, and projects, partnering with designated technical owners.
Maintain a current inventory of cloud environments, including supported products, accountable owners, and lifecycle stages.
Monitor portfolio health across security, compliance, cost, reliability, access, observability, and operational readiness, identifying risks and recurring gaps against established standards.
Ensure cloud health alerts, findings, and requests are visible to the appropriate platform, security, FinOps, or product teams, with clear context and follow-up.
Confirm responsible teams acknowledge issues requiring remediation and maintain visibility of planned actions, owners, and status.
Drive adoption of approved cloud standards for account configuration, tagging, logging, access, networking, backup, monitoring, deployment, and support.
Partner with security and compliance teams to translate enterprise requirements into measurable checks, remediation plans, and repeatable cloud-health processes.
Track cloud services and software nearing or past end of support, including runtime deadlines and policy exceptions.
Partner with FinOps and product teams to monitor cloud spend, investigate anomalies and cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and improve cost visibility and forecasting.
Produce reporting for technical teams and leadership on portfolio health, risk trends, exceptions, overdue actions, cost trends, and matters requiring decisions or escalation.
Coordinate recurring cloud-health reviews with product teams, Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering, security, FinOps, enterprise IT, and external partners.
Identify patterns across accounts and recommend improvements to standards, platforms, processes, or automation.
Build or coordinate automation for recurring health checks, evidence collection, notifications, ticketing, dashboards, and reporting to reduce manual effort.
Facilitate cross-functional discussions when ownership, policy interpretation, funding, sequencing, or remediation responsibility is unclear, and ensure decisions and exceptions are documented.
Support and coach colleagues and external partners involved in cloud-health reviews, remediation tracking, and reporting processes.