Cloud Engineer II

About the role

At CarMax, we are industry disruptors. At the heart of our innovation is a new generation of digital products. As part of our Cloud Platform Engineering team, our engineers research and discover new opportunities to ensure the products that power our seamless customer experience have a strong technical foundation. You will iterate on and evolve the cloud platform and the tools used to manage it, learning quickly through a spirit of experimentation. You will help ensure our applications are reliable and resilient by applying modern cloud concepts and technologies.

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.
• Leverage emerging AI technologies to gain efficiencies and increase time to market for deliverables that enable business capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technology field, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Cloud-Specific Qualifications and Requirements:
  • 2+ years of experience working in and building infrastructure within a cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud).
  • 2+ years of scripting or coding experience in one or more languages.
  • Build infrastructure, networks, and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through infrastructure-as-code.
  • Demonstrable experience with a range of cloud capabilities including storage, key/secret management, virtual networking, web apps, identity and access management, virtual machines, and automated deployments.
  • Demonstrable experience with software development, preferably in one or more of the following: .NET, .NET Core, C# and PowerShell.
  • Demonstrable experience building and deploying resilient cloud infrastructure.
  • Demonstrable experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar.
  • Demonstrable experience supporting Windows or Linux operating systems.
  • Strong attention to detail, along with problem investigation and diagnostic skills.
  • Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes through automation.
  • Experience with Cosmos DB and relational databases such as MS SQL Server, preferred.