Yamaha Motor Finance Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Technology team! This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of cloud technology at
Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation, U.S.A. (YMFUS) by designing, building, and securing a modern AWS-based platform that powers business-critical applications and enterprise initiatives.
As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in our cloud modernization journey, partnering with Engineering, Security, and implementation partners to deliver a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platform. You'll work with industry-leading technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation while helping drive innovation, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization.
What You'll Do- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC, EC2, EKS, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS, IAM, S3, KMS, and Secrets Manager, following AWS Well-Architected best practices.
- Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) environments, including cluster management, networking, ingress controllers, autoscaling, namespaces, RBAC, storage, and workload optimization.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, creating reusable modules and standardized environment provisioning across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
- Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar technologies to enable automated testing, deployment, release approvals, rollback capabilities, and deployment consistency.
- Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, least-privilege access controls, Secrets Manager, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening in partnership with Information Security teams.
- Develop and maintain centralized monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies to improve platform reliability and operational visibility.
- Support production operations by troubleshooting infrastructure and platform issues, conducting root cause analyses, implementing preventative measures, and improving platform resilience.
- Collaborate with application development teams and implementation partners to support containerization, cloud-native application deployments, environment management, and modernization initiatives.
- Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, platform standards, and technical documentation.
- Participate in architecture reviews, cloud cost optimization efforts, capacity planning, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Contribute to the execution of the organization's cloud strategy and help drive adoption of modern platform engineering and DevOps practices.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
What You'll Bring- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Five (5) or more years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Four (4) or more years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Three (3) or more years of hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
- Strong experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
- Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC architecture, load balancing, DNS, SSL/TLS, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
- Experience implementing cloud security services, including IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, and vulnerability remediation processes.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting highly available production environments and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
- Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
- Strong Linux administration experience.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
- A passion for technology, continuous learning, and building modern cloud platforms that enable business success.
Preferred Qualifications- AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or other relevant AWS certifications.
- Experience with cloud modernization, application migration, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
- Knowledge of SRE, platform engineering, and DevSecOps best practices.
Salary Range:The expected base salary range for this position is
$75,000 - $90,000 per year. Where a candidate falls within the range will be determined by factors including technical expertise, relevant experience, certifications, education, and overall fit for the role. Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation also offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with profit sharing, wellness benefits, and opportunities for career advancement.
What's In It For You:- 401(k) and Profit Sharing
- Fertility Benefits
- 37.5 hour workweek
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Wellness Program
- Short-Term Disability Coverage (for hourly roles)
- Long-Term Disability
- Student Debt Repayment Benefits
- Ability to borrow Yamaha Product
