Cloud Platform Engineer II — AI-Driven Automation & Azure

CarMax Business Services; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

CarMax is seeking a Cloud Engineer II to join our CAF Technology team. You will help build and operate a scalable cloud platform, partnering with engineers to deliver secure, compliant, and efficient services for financing and customer experiences.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup, collaborating across teams to modernize legacy systems, implement IaC, and deploy containerized solutions while emphasizing availability and data privacy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technology field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• 2+ years experience with .NET and C#.
• 2+ years building infrastructure within a cloud platform (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud considered).
• Demonstrable experience defining infrastructure as code - Bicep preferred; Terraform or CloudFormation experience is transferable.
• Demonstrable experience with a range of cloud capabilities including compute, storage, key & secret management, virtual networking, identity and access management, and automated deployments.
• Demonstrable experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Working knowledge of containers and Linux fundamentals - Dockerfiles, image registries, and how images are built, scanned, promoted, and debugged at runtime.
• Exposure to event-driven architecture (Service Bus or equivalent) and NoSQL data stores such as Cosmos DB is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail, along with problem investigation and diagnostic skills.
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes through automation.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with internal and external team members to develop business capabilities and automation that enable internal customers to move quickly and deliver on business needs.
• Collaborate with other engineers on design, product management, and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life.
• Share ideas internally and evolve them based on feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.
• Stay current on industry trends and best practices to continuously improve how we work and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be.
• Leverage emerging AI technologies to gain efficiencies and increase time to market for deliverables that enable business capabilities.

Skills

C# & .NET

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Linux basics

Infrastructure as code

NoSQL databases

Automation

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Job description

CarMax is seeking a Cloud Engineer II to join our CAF Technology team. You will help build and operate a scalable cloud platform, partnering with engineers to deliver secure, compliant, and efficient services for financing and customer experiences.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup, collaborating across teams to modernize legacy systems, implement IaC, and deploy containerized solutions while emphasizing availability and data privacy.