Cloud Engineering Advisor

Federal Express Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Federal Express Corporation seeks a Cloud Engineer to deploy, integrate, and manage private, public, and hybrid cloud platform services for enterprise-scale analytical applications. You will implement infrastructure as code, design scalable networks, and ensure secure, reliable provisioning across environments.

Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to optimize performance, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems or equivalent.
• 5–7 years of cloud engineering experience; leadership in project settings.
• Experience leading multi-function teams and driving large deployments.

Responsibilities

• Develop infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, and CI/CD tools.
• Design, integrate and monitor cloud computing systems.
• Manage deployments, integrations, and troubleshooting of platform services.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to meet needs and ensure reliability.

Skills

Leadership / Mentorship

Communication

GCP or cloud

Confluent Cloud

OS a layers knowledge

System administration

Programming languages

Automation scripting

DevOps / CI-CD

Kubernetes

Terraform

Yaml configurations

Shell scripting

Vertex AI / AI tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Terraform

Yaml

Shell scripting

Kubernetes

GKE / AKS

GitHub Actions

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Vertex AI

Job description

Domicile Information

This is a hybrid position located in Memphis TN, Plano TX, or Pittsburg PA. Candidates must live within 50 miles of the campus location. Employees will be required to work at the FedEx campus location several times per week.

Summary

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for the deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of complex analytical applications at enterprise scale. In this role the candidate will be demonstrating their networking and security protocol knowledge to ensure safe and scalable environment provisioning while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within.This person will be comfortable developing infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.Continuous collaboration will be an important aspect of this role working with a variety of architects and peer engineering teams ensuring deployed services meet the highest levels of scalability, reliability, and performance while balancing security, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence.

Essential Functions

Develop infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.Design, integrate and monitor cloud computing system(s).Manage deployment(s), all integration(s) and troubleshoot platform services.Collaborate with engineers, architects building systems to meet all needs.

• Takes end-to-end ownership and responsibility over critical engineering initiatives including deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of complex analytical applications at enterprise scale
• Champions safe and scalable environment provisioning while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within FedEx Dataworks own network
• Sets the standards for sizing, building, deploying, managing, and monitoring fault-tolerant, 24/7 application infrastructure
• Manages the infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency
• Continuously collaborates with a variety of architects and peer engineering teams ensuring deployed services meet the highest levels of scalability, reliability, and performance while balancing security, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence
• Advises junior engineers, managers, and those in less senior positions
• Provides mentorship and guidance to junior cloud engineers to support the continued training and up-skilling of the Cloud engineering team

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong leader / mentorship
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• GCP or other major cloud platform experience
• Confluent Cloud administration
• Demonstrable understanding of the 7 layers of the OSI Network Mode
• Conversant in system administration skills and tasks that a well-rounded technologist may need to perform
• Experience with one or more programming languages
• Automation and scripting in Powershell and Bash
• DevOps and CICD pipelines - github actions
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively
• Kubernetes experience either with GKE/AKS or managing your own Kubernetes cluster
• Must have: Terraform, Yaml configurations, Shell scripting, Kubernetes
• Experience in alert management and root cause analysis
• Experience with monitoring stack (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience in completing difficult projects, e.g. programming project, system admin, large deployment or migration projects
• Experience with Java or Python
• Experience with data analytical infrastructure - Dataflow, GCS, BigQueryExperience with AI - GCP AI Foundation, Vertex AI

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

Five to seven (5 - 7) years' experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Pay Transparency:

Pay: US: $8,007.29/mo - $18,149.85/mo, CO: $8,007.29/mo - $17,393.61/mo, MD: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NJ: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NY: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo, NYC: $10,231.53/mo - $18,149.85/mo, WA: $8,452.14/mo - $18,149.85/mo

Additional Details:

Pay Transparency:
The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire. In New Jersey, any compensable Security and Walk time will be paid to non-exempt/hourly employees at the state minimum wage.

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Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. Applicants who require reasonable accommodations in the application or hiring process should contact [e-mail].

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