FedEx

Cloud Engineering Advisor

FedEx$110K — $250K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; PhD preferred.
  • 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering or a related field.
  • Demonstrable leadership experience in planning or consulting settings.
  • Experience leading multi-functional project teams.
  • Proficiency in Terraform, YAML, Shell scripting, and public cloud, particularly GCP.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end management of cloud platform services for analytic applications.
  • Champion scalable and secure environment provisioning and accessibility of data assets.
  • Set standards for deployment and monitoring of fault-tolerant application infrastructure.
  • Manage infrastructure as code using automation technologies and tools.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders ensuring deployed services meet business needs efficiently. 
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide guidance to enhance the Cloud engineering team's capabilities.

Benefits

  • Remote work eligibility within the contiguous U.S. (with some in-office requirements nearby campus).
  • Comprehensive benefits package offered (details need to be explored via provided links).
  • Opportunity for continuous learning and skill enhancement.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

Takes end-to-end ownership and responsibility over critical engineering initiatives including deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of complex analytical applications at enterprise scale. Champions safe and scalable environment provisioning while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within FedEx network. Sets the standards for sizing, building, deploying, managing, and monitoring fault-tolerant, 24/7 application infrastructure. Manages the infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.

Continuously collaborates with a variety of managers, architects, vendors, stake holders, business owners, and peer engineering teams ensuring deployed services meet business needs with the highest levels of scalability, reliability, and performance while balancing security, maintainability, reliability, and operational excellence. Advises junior engineers, managers, and those in less senior positions. Provides mentorship and guidance to junior cloud engineers to support the continued training and up-skilling of the Cloud engineering team.

Job Description

Additional Job Description

Minimum Education Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or related quantitative discipline. Directly related PhD preferred. Minimum Experience Seven (7+) years' work experience in cloud engineering or related field. Strong experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Strong experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences. Strong oral and written communication skills. Must have: Terraform, Yaml configurations, Shell scripting, public cloud experience preferably GCP

Minimum Education
• Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or related quantitative discipline. Directly related PhD preferred.

Minimum Experience
• Seven plus (7+) years' work experience in cloud engineering or related field. Strong experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Strong experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Strong leader / mentorship
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• GCP or other major cloud platform experience
• Confluent Cloud administration
• Demonstrable understanding of the 7 layers of the OSI Network Mode
• Conversant in system administration skills and tasks that a well-rounded technologist may need to perform
• Experience with one or more programming languages
• Automation and scripting in Powershell and Bash
• DevOps and CICD pipelines - github actions
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences
• Kubernetes experience either with GKE/AKS or managing your own Kubernetes cluster
• Must have: Terraform, Yaml configurations, Shell scripting, Kubernetes
• Experience in alert management and root cause analysis
• Experience with monitoring stack (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience in completing difficult projects, e.g. programming project, system admin, large deployment or migration projects
• Experience with Java or Python
• Experience with data analytical infrastructure - Dataflow, GCS, BigQueryExperience with AI - GCP AI Foundation, Vertex AI

Domicile Information: This position is eligible for remote work and may be located anywhere within the United States excluding AK, HI and U.S. territories, however if you live within the 50 miles radius of a campus you will be required to work at a FedEx campus location several times per week.

Preferred Qualifications:

Pay Transparency:

Pay: US: $9,208.38/mo - $20,872.33/mo, CO: $9,208.38/mo - $20,002.65/mo, MD: $9,719.96/mo - $20,872.33/mo, NJ: $9,719.96/mo - $20,872.33/mo, NY: $9,719.96/mo - $20,872.33/mo, NYC: $11,766.26/mo - $20,872.33/mo, WA: $9,719.96/mo - $20,872.33/mo

Additional Details:

Pay Transparency:

The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire.

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