Cloud Engineer-Azure - Global Industrial

Motion; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion is seeking a Cloud Engineer III to advance our cloud infrastructure across client systems in Birmingham, Alabama. You will mentor peers and drive design, deployment, and optimization of cloud solutions with a strong emphasis on automation, performance, high availability, and security.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, digital, and application teams to modernize legacy workloads, implement recommended cloud services, and ensure scalable, resilient architectures.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and virtualization technologies.
• Ability to lead and mentor other Cloud Engineers and provide technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provides support in the management and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure services for clients.
• Acts 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 monitoring and capacity analysis to improve stability and performance.
• Acts as a mentor to lower level Cloud Engineers.

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

GKE

Cloud Run

Cloud SQL

VMware

Windows

Linux

PowerShell

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

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:** NoCOMPANY 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 comprehensiveinventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any timeor create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!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.