Cloud Engineering Principal

About the role

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 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 managers, architects, vendors, stakeholders, business owners, and peer engineering teams ensuring deployed services meet business needs with 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.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Provides mentorship and guidance to junior cloud engineers.
• Manages the infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies.
• Collaborates with various stakeholders to ensure deployed services meet business needs.
• Ensures deployed services are scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Advises junior engineers and provides guidance on best practices.
• Maintains and monitors fault-tolerant application infrastructure.
• Ensures compliance with security, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence standards.

Requirements

• Seven (7+) years’ work experience in cloud engineering or related field.
• Strong experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Strong experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Terraform, YAML configurations, Shell scripting, public cloud experience preferably GCP.
• Knowledge of GCP or other major cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes, either with GKE/AKS or managing your own Kubernetes cluster.
• Experience with monitoring stack (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience in alert management and root cause analysis.
• Experience with data analytical infrastructure - Dataflow, GCS, BigQuery.
• Experience with AI - GCP AI Foundation, Vertex AI.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or related quantitative discipline.
• Directly related PhD preferred.
• Related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Skills

• Strong leader / mentorship.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with one or more programming languages.
• Automation and scripting in Powershell and Bash.
• DevOps and CICD pipelines – github actions.

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