Senior Cloud Engineer

$110,600 - $173,000/Yr

Paccar - Renton, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Renton, WA

251-500 employees

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

The Senior Cloud Engineer at PACCAR is responsible for building, deploying, operating, sustaining, and growing the software systems that manage PACCAR's cloud services. This role involves collaborating with Systems and Software Engineers to create proactive engineering mechanisms for managing the health of cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and experience in cloud engineering and software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead team in developing platforms based on AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and Grafana.
• Work with System Engineers, Developers, Architects, and DevOps engineers to design and implement automated solutions with CI/CD Pipelines for infrastructure and software build, deployment, and configuration.
• Design, deploy and support Cloud Networking including cross cloud and site-to-cloud connections.
• Ensure Digital Platform service level expectations are clearly defined and measurable through Service Level Objective's (SLO's) and Service Level Indicators (SLI's).
• Ensure that Instances Deployed to Cloud Platforms meet PACCAR's patching, monitoring and DR/Backup Standards.
• Leverage scripting languages, such as Python and Terraform, to build automated solutions and integrations on an ad-hoc basis.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices to consult, coach and provide oversight to development, business, and systems teams in defining and implementing SLOs/SLIs.
• Maintain code and scripting Git version control repositories and related systems supporting initiatives around 'infrastructure as code'.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve problems with the build, deployment, and continuous integration process.
• Ensure security is integrated into all architecture solutions to meet compliance standards.
• Seek opportunities and implement solutions to improve site reliability (reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis, Mean Time to Resolution, System Self-healing, etc.)

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional cloud engineering or software development experience required.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems required.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud networks required.
• Proficiency in one or more of Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash or Java required.
• Experience using AWS and/or GCP resource technologies to develop and deploy enterprise solutions required.
• Experience managing scaled cloud systems with a focus on operational excellence preferred.
• Experience working with high-availability, distributed systems and services in a hosting environment including hardware, OS, storage, network, and database solutions preferred.
• Experience with DNS, DHCP, SSH, HTTP, TCP/IP and other common network protocols.
• Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting in large-scale Linux environment.
• Experience with database technology, both relational and NoSQL preferred.
• Working knowledge of agile development methods preferred.
• Working knowledge of data structured/algorithms preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing scaled cloud systems with a focus on operational excellence preferred.
• Experience working with high-availability, distributed systems and services in a hosting environment including hardware, OS, storage, network, and database solutions preferred.
• Working knowledge of agile development methods preferred.
• Working knowledge of data structured/algorithms preferred.

Benefits

• 401k with up to a 5% company match
• Fully funded pension plan that provides monthly benefits after retirement
• Comprehensive paid time off - minimum of 10 paid vacation days, 12 paid holidays, and sick time
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education
• Medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)
• Paid short-and long-term disability programs
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• EAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more