Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

The Senior Staff Cloud Engineer plays a pivotal role in optimizing Credit Acceptance's IT infrastructure through the strategic, design, development, and implementation of large-scale cloud projects. This role requires extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance and emerging technologies, ensuring the company remains at the forefront of innovation.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud and manage all cloud infrastructure and supporting tools
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable cloud solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, direction, and clarity
• Drive technical innovation and improvements in cloud system design and architecture
• Build thought leadership and deliver high-impact business value through cloud solutions
• Conduct impact analysis and perform technical due diligence on third-party technologies
• Experiment, test, validate assumptions, and recommend solutions
• Document standards, best practices, and engineering artifacts
• Debug critical problems and execute effective solutions
• Anticipate customer needs and industry shifts to improve design and engineering practices
• Mentor team members and develop standard architectural practices
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale
• Conduct routine environment audits for compliance with established standards, policies, and procedures

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience designing scalable Cloud/Hybrid environments with a strong background in AWS and Azure
• Experience developing and managing Infrastructure as Code, leveraging tools like Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, etc.
• Experience in the lead role overseeing technical direction for multiple Cloud/Platform/Development/DevOps/SRE teams
• Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of Cloud engineering best practices
• Hands-on experience with LLM integration patterns and at least one LLM gateway or proxy product (LiteLLM, Portkey, AWS Bedrock Gateway, or equivalent)