Cloud Engineer III

Cloud Engineer III

Requirements

• 5+ years of Cloud development and support experience such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and a Bachelor’s degree or 3 years relevant experience and a Master’s degree.
• Demonstrated ability to provide architectural design, leadership, management, and mentoring to team members.
• Experience developing design specifications, test plans, and protocols.
• Experience working in cross functional team and managing external vendors.
• Associate AWS certifications (e.g. Developer, Solution Architect, or SysOps Administrator Associate).
• Good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS and Azure.
• Good knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies (e.g. repos, pipelines, Terraform, etc.).
• Strong desire to automate everything you touch.
• Must be diligent to details, organized, self-motivated, and driven.
• Ability to create system and process flow diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence and UML diagrams, inter and intra system dependencies within the functional domain and across them.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical staff.
• Defines and promotes best practices; cultivates a culture of innovation and learning, including willingness to instruct and coach in a cloud training program as needed.
• Demonstrated strong analytic and problem-solving abilities.
• Advanced ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Willingness and ability to live the McDonald’s values every day: Serve, Inclusion, Integrity, Community, and Family.

Responsibilities

• Automate the provisioning of cloud resources
• Propose and implement process improvements to move team to IaaS principles
• Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows in the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
• While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement standard methodologies and solutions for applications applying CI/CD and the cloud.
• Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.
• Remain up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.
• Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and premier service.
• Effectively communicate project health, risks and issues to the program stakeholders, sponsors and management teams.
• Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate sophisticated or consequential issues to senior management.
• Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security.
• Work well in an agile environment
• Build, implement, and support tools that improve customer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multiple programming languages like Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby on rails etc. along with NoSQL, SQL technologies
• Experience working with data and promoting a data-driven mindset
• Intermediate Azure certifications (e.g. AZ-100, AZ-104, AZ-500, etc.)
• Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.