Cloud Engineer III

McDonald's Corporation; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 129,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company, recognized globally, is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer III to join their Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team. This role aims to enhance software delivery efficiency through automation and optimization processes in Google Cloud. With responsibilities covering cloud infrastructure provisioning and security, candidates should bring substantial IT expertise and a dedication to innovation. This position offers a competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Bonus Eligible

Long - Term Incentive

Benefits Eligible

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Information Technology experience for a large technology company.
• 6+ years hands-on Cloud DevOps pipeline experience.
• 5+ years working with Cloud technologies in AWS & GCP.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for cloud technical questions.
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
• Research, analyze, and support high-quality automation workflows.

Skills

Automation

Cloud Security

Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Tools

GitHub

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Job Description:

Company Description
McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the food service industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us.
From drive thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

Department Overview

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide outstanding foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It’s our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers.

The Cloud DevOps Engineer III role is part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Operations team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. The role reports to the Sr. Manager of Cloud DevOps and is responsible for supporting, migrating, automation and optimization of software development and deployment process specifically for Google Cloud. The Cloud DevOps Engineer III will work closely with software developers, cloud architects, operations engineers, and other partners to ensure that the software delivery process is efficient, secure, and scalable. You will support the Corporate, Cloud Security, Cloud Platform, Digital, Data, Restaurant, and Market application and product teams by efficiently and optimally delivering DevOps standards and services.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft the transformation of infrastructure and operations products and services to the entire McDonalds environment.

Duties

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for all cloud technical hands-on questions pertaining infrastructure, security and application services.
• Participate in the management, design, and solutioning of platform deployment and operational processes.
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure, cloud monitors, automated remediation, security baselines and templates, etc. through the concept of pipeline engineering.
• Implement core cloud security capabilities such as identity & access, data protection, security controls and compliance, vulnerability management, threat detection and response, and logging/monitoring.
• Provide direction and guidance to vendors partnering on DevOps tools standardization and engineering support.
• Configure and deploy reusable pipeline templates for automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and code.
• Proactively find opportunities for continuous improvement
• Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure and tools that support the software development and deployment process.
• Work with software developers and operations engineers to improve the software delivery process.
• Stay up to date on the latest DevOps practices and technologies.
• Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.
• Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.
• Effectively communicate project health, risks, and issues to the program partners, sponsors, and management teams.
• Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise complex or consequential issues to senior management.
• Work well in an agile environment
• Implement and support monitoring standard methodologies
• Respond to platform and operational incidents and effectively resolve issues
• Provide technical advice and support growth of junior team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or relevant experience.
• 7+ years of Information Technology experience for a large technology company, preferably in a platform team.
• 6+ years hands-on Cloud DevOps pipeline for automating, building, and deploying microservice applications, APIs, and non-container artifacts.
• 5+ years working with Cloud technologies with good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS & GCP.
• 5+ years GitHub, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Harness and Artifactory or similar DevOps CI/CD tools.
• 3+ years of application development using agile methodology.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog, New Relic and open source (O11y) observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
• Hands-on knowledge of an Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies (e.g., repos, pipelines, Terraform, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of "AWS" Platform preferably 3+ years AWS/Kubernetes experience or container-based technology.
• It is good to have experience in working on Code Quality SAST and DAST tools like SonarQube/Sonar Cloud, Veracode, Checkmarx, and Snyk.
• Experience developing scripts or automating tasks using languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
• Self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and complete those solutions while coordinating with other teams.
• Knowledge of foundational cloud security principles
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good communication and partnership skills
• Any GCP Certification.
• Any Agile certification preferably scaled agile.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is$129,800.00 -$165,490.00per year

The above represents the expectedsalaryrange for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining yourpay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Competencies

Additional information
At McDonalds we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonalds experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees, and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice, or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.