Remote Cloud Platform Engineer I — Compute & Automation

Best Buy; Saint Paul (MN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Retirement resources

Well-being support

Job summary

Best Buy in Saint Paul, MN seeks an early-career cloud engineer to deliver small-to-medium compute platform features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and grow expertise in production systems, design, and real-world problem solving.

You will work largely from home with the need to live within a drivable distance to our Richfield campus. Relocation assistance is not provided. Immigration sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• 2 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience, can include schooling
• 1 year of experience with at least one programming language and fundamental software development practices, preferably Python
• 2 years of experience delivering mid- large sized compute platform features independently with strong technical execution
• 2 years Linux experience
• 1 year of experience with AWS IAM Roles and Permissions, security groups, monitoring and logging
• 1 year of experience in EC2/VM system architecture, design and implementation as a service

Responsibilities

• Independently deliver small to moderately complex compute platform features and bug fixes from backlog to production
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute ideas with guidance from Senior Engineers
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across development and production environments, including on‑call support
• Apply engineering best practices to improve system reliability, performance, and availability
• Collaborate with teammates and stakeholders to clarify requirements and reduce rework
• Identify opportunities to improve team productivity through automation and process improvements
• Build relationships across teams and begin mentoring less experienced engineers

Skills

Python

Linux

AWS IAM

Security groups

Monitoring & logging

EC2/VM architecture

On-call support

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

AWS Auto Scaling

Job description

Best Buy in Saint Paul, MN seeks an early-career cloud engineer to deliver small-to-medium compute platform features, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and grow expertise in production systems, design, and real-world problem solving.

You will work largely from home with the need to live within a drivable distance to our Richfield campus. Relocation assistance is not provided. Immigration sponsorship is not available.