Cloud Engineer Lead

FedEx Dataworks; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

FedEx Dataworks in Kraków, Poland is seeking a Cloud Engineer Lead to design and manage a global Azure infrastructure for their data-driven e-commerce platform. This role involves automating deployments and ensuring service availability across regions.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud engineering, strong skills in Azure services, and a proven track record of leadership in technical teams. This position promises exciting challenges and opportunities for growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Azure infrastructure for global projects.
• Automate deployments and optimize network performance.
• Collaborate with teams to align cloud solutions.

Skills

Azure services expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

Scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Leadership in project teams

Communication protocols knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Azure Log Analytics

Job description

As multi-region Cloud Engineer Lead at FedEx Dataworks Poland you will help us in setting up a global Azure infrastructure for the new FedEx data-driven e-commerce platform fdx (www.fdx.com).

You will design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure across multiple geographical regions, ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery. You will be responsible for automating infrastructure deployments, optimizing network performance, and collaborating with other teams to align cloud solutions with business needs.

What You’ll Do

• Create and configure data processing and web application infrastructure using Azure services. That includes setting up storage accounts, event hubs, AKS, Databricks components, gateways, databases, service accounts both on prod and non-prod environments.
• Review infrastructure configuration and scripts created by development teams.
• Ensure proper connectivity is established between specific Azure components.
• Setting up and configuring CI/CD pipelines.
• Adding, removing role assignments.
• Ensure proper monitoring of deployed services.
• Designing and building automation and orchestration solutions to speed up development teams.
• Review proposed architectures, provide feedback and make sure its compliant with security standards and Dataworks environment.

What You’ll Know

• Experience in implementing large-scale services across multi-regions.
• Practical experience and expertise with Azure services (Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Functions, ADF, Azure Databricks, Azure Kubernetes Service).
• IaC: automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform (ARM will be a plus).
• Practical experience and expertise in monitoring (Azure Log Analytics, alerting).
• Azure DevOps pipelines (YAML).
• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD authentication, users and groups, roles).
• Good understanding of Azure Networking Services.
• Hands‑on with Microservice deployment and configuration using manifest files/HELM.
• Good understanding of environments strategy.
• Experience in scripting languages: PowerShell, Bash, Python.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.
• Programming skills (preferably Java or Kotlin).
• Very good knowledge and understanding of communication protocols (across all layers)
• Seven (7) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field.
• Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Some experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Nice To Have

• China’s infrastructure building experience.
• DBA experience and understanding of data challenges related to global infrastructure, i.e. replication, data classification.