Cloud Engineer-Azure - Global Industrial

Genuine Parts Company; Alabama; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to lead the development and optimization of cloud-based solutions. You will mentor other engineers, provide design direction for cloud projects, and ensure secure, scalable cloud infrastructures with a focus on automation and high availability.

The role requires deep experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure, plus strong Kubernetes and virtualization skills. Collaboration with application teams and incident analysis are essential for continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 5–8 years of related experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Develops, optimizes, and maintains cloud-based solutions.
• Mentors other Cloud Engineers and provides technical leadership.
• Guides cloud initiatives focusing on automation, performance, and high availability.
• Analyzes production systems to drive improvements in stability.
• Devises scalable cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

VMware Cloud

Cloud Architecture

Scripting

GKE

Cloud Run

Linux

Windows

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree

5–8 years related experience

Tools

GCP tools

VMware

CI/CD tooling

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.

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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