Cloud Engineer-Azure - Global Industrial

Motion Industries; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Vacation, sick, and holiday pay

Job summary

Motion Industries in Birmingham, AL is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to partner with infrastructure, digital, and application teams to design, deploy, and optimize cloud-based solutions. You will mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership on cloud initiatives.

The role emphasizes automation, high availability, backup/restoration, monitoring, and security of cloud environments, with hands-on work in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and related tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5–8 years of cloud engineering experience or equivalent.
• Experience with cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Responsibilities

• Provide management and maintenance of cloud infrastructure for clients.
• Serve as interface between client and system, offering support.
• Develop technologies to accelerate cloud migration from legacy apps.
• Assist teams in implementing cloud services and resources.
• Provide technical leadership and design for cloud projects.
• Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Analyze production systems to improve stability and performance.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Automation

Scripting

Linux/Windows OS

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Azure

VMware

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

Job description

Birmingham, AL, USA

Atlanta, GA, USA

Full time

R26_0000030913

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).

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

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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