Cloud Engineer III
Birmingham, Alabama
Job Type: Hybrid
Here, you’ll find a culture that always has its finger on the pulse of ingenuity and innovation. After all, building on our legacy depends on acting with integrity to deliver future-focused transformation — and that’s where you’ll come in. By adding your resourcefulness and out-of-the-box thinking to ours, we’ll be able to achieve great things — both as a team, and as individuals. Whatever your area of IT expertise, we’ll empower you to bring your authentic self to work and support you to do your best work.
Success Profile
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- Detail-oriented
- Efficient
- Focused
- Multi-tasker
- Problem-solver
- Team player
Employee Benefits
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Medical, Dental, Vision, life and disability insurance, as well as campus health and wellness programs
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Paid time off, eight company holidays and flexible work schedules available
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Tuition Reimbursement and professional development opportunities
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401(k) Plan with competitive employer matching
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Onsite cafeteria, coffee stations and break rooms
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Employee discounts, including NAPA parts, entertainment, technology, appliances, event tickets and more
Job Description
SUMMARY:
Under limited supervision, the Cloud Engineer III works with Motion's infrastructure, digital, and application teams to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. This role acts as a mentor to other Cloud Engineers and provides technical leadership and design for cloud-related projects. This role deploys and debugs cloud stacks, educates teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensures the security of the cloud infrastructure and applications. The Cloud Engineer III identifies the most optimal cloud-based solutions and has in-depth experience with data management and data access from cloud-based solutions. This role guides application teams and ensures they are utilizing cloud services to their advantage with an emphasis on automation, performance, high availability, backup/restoration, and monitoring/logging.
You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship.
JOB DUTIES
- Provides support in the management and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure services for clients.
- Serves as the interface between the client and the system and offers support to clients.
- Develops technologies to accelerate the cloud journey from legacy monolithic applications.
- Assists application and product teams to implement recommended or requested cloud services and resources.
- Provides technical leadership and design for cloud related projects.
- Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
- Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis, and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
- Acts as a mentor to lower level Cloud Engineers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience or an equivalent combination.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
- Experienced in technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare Cloud Administration, and Azure.
- Experienced in independently coding and performing technical tasks with no supervision.
- Strong foundation in problem solving skills and resolving more complex issues.
- Ability to communicate effectively with project managers, business analysts and testers.
- Comprehensive experience with cloud architecture methodologies including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- Hands on experience with GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and other similar toolsets within GCP.
- Comprehensive experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
- Experience with VMware virtualization technology.
- Scripting (Linux shell, PowerShell).
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS: None required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: No Supervisory Responsibility
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: No
COMPANY INFORMATION: Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.
DISCLAIMER: This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.
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