Cloud Engineering Advisor

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 Google Cloud Platform

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
Google Cloud Platform 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 - Google Cloud Platform 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

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Pay Transparency:

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Federal Express Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer including, Vets/Disability.

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