Sr Cloud Systems Engineer

Power the Possibilities
The CDK Global technology team is looking for collaborative innovators who are passionate about making their mark on emerging enterprise software products. Were building and developing cloud technology for the automotive retail industry that will change the landscape for automotive dealers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the customers they serve.

Be Part of Something Bigger
Each year more than three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is attributed to the auto industry which flows through our customer the auto dealer. Its time you joined an evolving marketplace where research and development investment is measured in the tens of billions. Its time you were a part of something bigger.

Were expanding our workforce engineers architects developers and more onboarding early adopters who can optimize pivot and keep pace with everevolving development roadmaps and applications.

• Lead the way Do you have a passion for doing public cloud right Your technical thought leadership and deep skills will set the path for CDKs use of public cloud computing. You will influence the organization at all levels.

• Automate Automate Automate youll lead initiatives to automate everything from assisting application development teams in writing deployment code to developing InfrastructureasCode to drive security operational process automation and governance.

• Theres got to be a better way Can you look at an architecture process or application flow and see a more stable standard or optimized way to accomplish the same thing Do you ask why when a request doesnt sound right Do you see problems and immediately want to fix them yourself Can you find ways to quantify and prioritize these improvements

Join Our Team
Growth potential flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a nextgen enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging fastpaced engineering environments. The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology.

If youre ready for highimpact youre ready for CDK.

Location:

• India or US (preferred Austin TX or Chicago IL)

Role:

• Responsible for maintaining the Azure Platform architecture supporting CDK Public Cloud Governance and product/application adoption

• Design/Development of Azure governance solutions (managing security cost optimization and tech debt)

• Develop/maintain/implement cloud platform standards (IAM tagging security account management networking DR database etc.

• Support product development teams and infrastructure teams in the implementation of governance solutions (security cost optimization etc.

• Maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance cost management and tech deb perspective). Work with infrastructure technical leads to develop and maintain domain standards (database networking compute security messaging etc.

• Work with Security to define security requirements and controls design and implement solutions ex Defender Sentinel Azure Key Vault etc. to support overall security of the CDK AWS environment.

• Work with Infrastructure engineering teams to ensure standards and reference solutions are develop with respect to the domain areas (Data Protection Disaster Recovery etc.

• Analyzing complex business and software requirements leading to the selection and implementation of appropriate technical public cloud solutions ex Secrets Management Messaging etc..

• Ensuring the software and development requirements align to the defined public cloud infrastructure service standards

• Ensure architecture process standards and best practice documentation is current

• Optimizing and tuning designs based on performance and root cause analysis

• Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the solution.

• Utilizing your experience and skillset to influence and guide the Infrastructure Services Roadmap

• During cloud operational issues assist procuct and operational teams to identify root cause and recommend remediation activities.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• This is a handson role where the candidate is expected to take on technical tasks where in depth knowledge on usage and engineering best practices of AWS/public cloud technologies is important:

• Preferred key experience includes 46 years of AWS experience with majority the following AWS services/capabilities:

• Compute/DB: VMs Azure SQL SQL Server MI

• Networking: Load Balancing vNets Availablity Zones/Regions WAF/FW Express Route Private Link etc.

• Storage: Block BLOB Archive Services Azure Container Storage etc.

• Security: Service Control Policies IAM Defender Sentinel etc.

• Cloud FinOps: Azure Advisor Cost Management & Billing

• Other: OpenSearch Backup

• 24 years of experience of using data analytics and Azure cost investigative techniques/tools 3rd party FinOps tools etc. to identify cost optimization opportunities and working with application teams to achieve those savings identified.

• 35 years implementing and managing security controls in an Azure environment. Experience with Azure security capabilities

• 23 years development/scripting experience (Python & Java preferred leveraging Azure CLI/SDK

• 23 years of experience with Infrastructure as code ex. Terraform) and related DevOps tools to facilitate automated application deployments.

• Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies preferred. Looking for candidates with experience with a minimum of 4 of the following areas and willingness to learn the other areas.

• Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL)

• Containerization Solutions (Docker Kubernetes)

• DevOps processes and tooling

• Message queuing data streaming and caching solutions MQ Kafka)

• Microservice architecture

• Networking principles and concepts

• Disaster Recovery solutions

• Development and Implementation of Azure Cost Optimization solutions (rightsizing storage optimization etc.

• Site Reliablity Engineering practices

• Experience of working within an Infrastructure team utilizing multicloud and Private/Public/Hybrid cloud models

• General knowledge of server based operating systems (Windows/Linux) and Web Services (IIS Apache)

• Strong analytical and presentation/communication skills

• Experience of designing optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large complex application stacks

• Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with at all levels in the organization

• Preferred but not required; AWS Solution Architect certification (associate or professional) along with hands on experience of designing and managing AWS cloud solutions.