Cloud Engineer III

Department Overview

This opportunity is part of the Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations team (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern and relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide outstanding foundational technology products and services including Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. It’s our goal to always provide an engaging, relevant, and simple experience for our customers.

The Cloud DevOps Engineer III role is part of the Cloud Infrastructure and Operations team in Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations. The role reports to the Sr. Manager of Cloud DevOps and is responsible for supporting, migrating, automation and optimization of software development and deployment process specifically for Google Cloud. The Cloud DevOps Engineer III will work closely with software developers, cloud architects, operations engineers, and other partners to ensure that the software delivery process is efficient, secure, and scalable. You will support the Corporate, Cloud Security, Cloud Platform, Digital, Data, Restaurant, and Market application and product teams by efficiently and optimally delivering DevOps standards and services.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced technology leader to help craft the transformation of infrastructure and operations products and services to the entire McDonalds environment.

Duties

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for all cloud technical hands-on questions pertaining infrastructure, security and application services.
• Participate in the management, design, and solutioning of platform deployment and operational processes.
• Automate the provisioning of cloud infrastructure, cloud monitors, automated remediation, security baselines and templates, etc. through the concept of pipeline engineering.
• Implement core cloud security capabilities such as identity & access, data protection, security controls and compliance, vulnerability management, threat detection and response, and logging/monitoring.
• Provide direction and guidance to vendors partnering on DevOps tools standardization and engineering support.
• Configure and deploy reusable pipeline templates for automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and code.
• Proactively find opportunities for continuous improvement
• Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure and tools that support the software development and deployment process.
• Work with software developers and operations engineers to improve the software delivery process.
• Stay up to date on the latest DevOps practices and technologies.
• Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements.
• Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.
• Effectively communicate project health, risks, and issues to the program partners, sponsors, and management teams.
• Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively raise complex or consequential issues to senior management.
• Work well in an agile environment
• Implement and support monitoring standard methodologies
• Respond to platform and operational incidents and effectively resolve issues
• Provide technical advice and support growth of junior team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or relevant experience.
• 7+ years of Information Technology experience for a large technology company, preferably in a platform team.
• 6+ years hands-on Cloud DevOps pipeline for automating, building, and deploying microservice applications, APIs, and non-container artifacts.
• 5+ years working with Cloud technologies with good knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS & GCP.
• 5+ years GitHub, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Harness and Artifactory or similar DevOps CI/CD tools.
• 3+ years of application development using agile methodology.
• Experience with observability tools like Datadog, New Relic and open source (O11y) observability ecosystem (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
• Hands-on knowledge of an Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies (e.g., repos, pipelines, Terraform, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of "AWS" Platform preferably 3+ years AWS/Kubernetes experience or container-based technology.
• It is good to have experience in working on Code Quality SAST and DAST tools like SonarQube/Sonar Cloud, Veracode, Checkmarx, and Snyk.
• Experience developing scripts or automating tasks using languages such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
• Self-starter, able to come up with solutions to problems and complete those solutions while coordinating with other teams.
• Knowledge of foundational cloud security principles
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good communication and partnership skills
• Any GCP Certification.
• Any Agile certification preferably scaled agile.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: Yes

Long - Term Incentive: Yes

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $129,800.00 - $165,490.00 per year
 
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

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