What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer II position at GM Financial?
Overview
Why GM Financial?
GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.
At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive. Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters
Responsibilities
About the Role:
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working collaboratively in an agile team to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. The person in this role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.
- Build and support secure cloud solutions in major public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
- Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems that may exist in cloud-hosted environments
- Ensure that cybersecurity controls are met or exceeded
- Willingness and ability to take a “code first” approach to fully automate the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Terraform, Chef, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy and other tools
- Knowledge and experience provisioning and managing Azure Managed Identities, Service Principal Names (SPNs) and Enterprise Applications in Azure
- Understanding of Azure Policy and how to create custom policies
- Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements
- Willingness to instruct and coach in a cross-team cloud training program as needed
- Be a subject matter expert across the business, responding to cloud technical questions, with an initial focus on Azure and cloud-native technologies as well as 12-Factor software development
- Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions
- Be available for an on-call rotation to participate in troubleshooting and communication efforts outside of normal business hours
- Create and implement standards and best practices, driving adoption across development teams and external vendors as applicable
Qualifications
What makes you a dream candidate?
- General knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service or Native Kubernetes including installation, troubleshooting deployments, nodes, pods, certificates and RBAC
- Strong experience in designing, building, and optimizing automated pipelines with automated testing and automated security controls
- Understanding of basic requirements for securing virtual machines in the cloud in including the use of strong passwords, port closure and other industry-standard hardware techniques
- A driving passion for finding solutions to hard problems at scale and operationalizing them
- Exceptional critical thinking and communication skills, with a passion for leveraging documentation as a tool for constant improvement
- Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy or other similar tools
- Code Scanning: use of tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Kube-Bench, or similar
- Source Code repos: User level and demonstrated knowledge of Git including cloning, branching and other regular commands
- Experience with one or more of the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service
- Ability to navigate the Linux operating system and perform administrator operations
- High level programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar
- Scripting: PowerShell, Bash
- Database Technologies (one or more of the following): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (eg CosmosDB)
- Demonstrated knowledge of secrets management in the cloud using solutions such as Hashicorp Vault or Azure Key Vault
- Advanced knowledge of cloud security frameworks and tooling such as Azure Policy or Azure Security Kit
Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent work or military experience required required
- Master’s Degree in a related field preferred
- 3-5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1 years’ experience in software development, test automation, system administration or infrastructure/operations required
- 2-3 years of experience in cloud technologies with at least 1 year of project experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar technologies required
- Current Azure DevOps Expert or Azure Architect Expert certification or equivalent AWS or GCP certification required
What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office