Cloud Engineer

$111,000 - $231,250/Yr

Yahoo Holdings - Moffett Field, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Moffett Field, CA

5,001-10,000 employees

About the position

The Cloud Engineer position at Yahoo involves developing and enhancing cloud infrastructure solutions to support the company's extensive media and technology brands. The role focuses on automating deployments, monitoring application performance, and ensuring the reliability of production systems. The ideal candidate will be passionate about developer productivity and product quality, with a strong emphasis on troubleshooting and automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Terraform modules to standardize cloud features in the Yahoo environment.
• Configure and automate Helm deployments for services hosted in Kubernetes.
• Diagnose, resolve, and prevent issues in production application infrastructure using knowledge of Kubernetes, UNIX tools, and cloud technologies.
• Implement and maintain monitoring to provide transparency to application and system state, history, and trends.
• Write clear and concise engineering documentation for internal users.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with a BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience working with AWS or GCP public cloud.
• Strong knowledge of cloud fundamentals including automation, deployments, monitoring, networking, and access management.
• Expertise in working with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, preferably Kubernetes.
• Expertise in scripting languages, preferably Python.
• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks and determining the root cause of incidents in cloud environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Istio, and Go.
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing, and CDNs.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and deployment.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• 401K savings plan
• Company holidays
• Vacation and sick time
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program