System Engineer III (AWS)

About the position

The Cloud Engineer III at GM Financial is responsible for implementing and optimizing cloud strategies and architectures to ensure high availability and security. This role involves continuous monitoring, collaboration with various teams, and championing cloud adoption while adhering to DevSecOps principles. The engineer will automate cloud provisioning, develop automation workflows, and provide technical guidance, all while focusing on delivering excellent customer service and maintaining operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Automate the provisioning of cloud environments using Terraform, Chef, Puppet, and other tools.
• Research, analyze, design, develop, and support high-quality automation workflows in the cloud platform.
• Strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud.
• Evangelize Distributed Version Control and Trunk-Based Development practices, ATDD and TDD, Pipelines and Infrastructure and Release Automation.
• Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.
• Remain up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.
• Troubleshoot production issues, engage appropriate parties, and drive through to resolution.
• Manage processes of 3rd party data streams into the datacenter and cloud.
• Collaborate with Architecture team(s) to advise on enabling work and make decisions regarding sequencing for optimal delivery of value.
• Ensure high availability and 24x7 monitoring.
• Continually improve operational processes and procedures.
• Educate and guide team members on Cloud standards and act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Cloud technical questions.
• Lead and facilitate the creation of compliance automation and policy-as-code to streamline cloud governance.
• Effectively communicate project health, risks, and issues to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, and emerging computing trends.
• Thorough understanding of Hybrid Cloud Computing: virtualization technologies, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS delivery models.
• Extensive experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) and native toolsets (Azure ARM Templates, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation).
• Extensive experience with automation and configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar.
• Experience with Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache, and Azure App Service.
• Strong experience with the Linux operating system.
• Strong background in scripting and automation in languages such as Python and Ruby.
• Strong background in cloud operations instrumentation and monitoring of distributed architectures using tools like ZipKin, DataDog, AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios.
• Strong background with source control management systems (GIT or Subversion); Build Systems (Maven, Gradle, Webpack); Code Quality (Sonar); Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Deep technical experience in software design or development, application design, systems operations/management, database architecture, virtualization, IP networking, storage, IT security, and Linux system administration.
• Strong knowledge with Web Services, API Gateways, and application integration development and design.
• Working knowledge of Agile development, Scrum, and Application Lifecycle Management.

Nice-to-haves

• 2-3 years of experience in the consumer banking industry preferred.

Benefits

• 401K matching
• Bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid)
• Tuition assistance
• Training
• GM employee auto discount
• Community service pay
• Nine company holidays