Cloud Infrastructure Architect - W2 position

Job Description

Job Description

Day to Day responsibilities for this role :

• Maintain and operate framework that provides Guided Kubernetes (Kubernetes as a Service) solutions for customers.
• Troubleshoot cluster creation failure.
• Upgrade sub-components in preparing for overall KaaS quarterly upgrade using DevOps tools.
• Investigate issues through log analysis.
• Answer issues generated from ticket system.
• Build test Kubernetes clusters guided and manually.
• Suggest improvement based on repetitive issues. Verifying and updating technical and process documentation.
• Staying up to date on technology stack (cloud, logging solutions, HA clusters, monitoring solutions)

Projects this role will work on : Product Excellence; Guided BMW Kubernetes Cluster solution AWS / Azure, Cloud Security, Maintenance of Departmental Application environments, Atlassian (JIRA / Confluence / BitBucket), Splunk, TSL / SS certificates, Bash script editing / creating.

These projects would not necessarily be done simultaneously. They will typically work on 2 projects at a time.

Top skills needed for this position :

AWS Cloud Architecture (Certification Preferred (Associate or Professional Level)) OR AWS Developers Certification Preferred (Associate or Professional Level).

Analytics Experience (Splunk, Grafana or a BI Platform).

This candidate needs to be able to take multiple sets of data and create dashboarding for cloud governance initiatives.

Ability to automate certain tasks in AWS using services like Lambda or CloudFormation or Terraform. Database Experience (PostgreSQL mainly)

Must have :

• Experience in AWS or Azure.
• Someone who is outgoing, and passionate about IT and especially cloud computing and how it can help the business.
• Ability to understand business needs and translates it to an IT framework.
• Ability to go on call in a rotation that requires one week on duty occurring about every 3-4 weeks.

Nice to have : Docker / Docker Swarm, Jenkins, Terraform, Python programming, Experience working in a large company (international if possible)

Purpose / Responsibilities : Develops leading edge cloud architectures and technologies to support BMW Group and local DEVOPS Hubs Americas’ product teams.

Identifies emerging technologies with cloud providers (AWS, Azure) in order to build cloud

Infrastructure as Code solutions with availability reaching 99.999% uptime. All solutions will be properly secure and reliably engineered.

Provides monitoring and logging of applications / infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain Cloud architectures for BMW product teams
• Create and develop Kubernetes architecture and tools for product teams and as platforms
• Evaluate and implement Kubernetes managed solutions from vendors (EKS, AKS)
• Develop cluster creation / maintenance scripts (Infrastructure as code, Terraform, etc..)
• Utilize version control of the Infrastructure as Code with strong understanding of branching and merging strategies (Bitbucket)
• Deploy CI / CD pipeline utilization (Jenkins) for the creation of clusters
• Enforce user management and role management (AWS, Azure) following Group standards
• Perform and create cluster monitoring and infrastructure health reporting (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Provide operational expertise to maintain Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure (technical and budgetary)
• Develop network controls (ingress / egress for internet / intranet access)
• Maintain cluster security (key management, Vault)
• Develop highly available, scalable clusters (scale out, scale up, multiple AZs)
• Support cloud based databases (CockRoach) and message queue solutions (RabbitMQ)
• Develop logging / monitoring solutions for applications and infrastructure (Splunk)
• As a Knowledge expert, share information and vision via documentation and training of others
• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture and approach
• Work on several development initiatives concurrently and provide subject matter expertise on implementations and product customization
• Define the visualization and realization of future technologies, which will support the complete process from development of concepts and vision to full production ready solutions, which can be integrated rapidly into the automotive environment
• Serve as internal consultant to developers and engineers as needed, providing assistance in all phases of product life-cycle development

Education / Experience : BA / BS Degree in Business, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred or the equivalent of 4 years professional IT related experience. MS degree (preferred).

5+ years of technical experience in Information Technology to include 2+ years of experience delivering Cloud Architectures (including deployments and operations)

Company Description

About Kyyba :

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.

At Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values;

incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.

Company Description

About Kyyba : r nFounded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.

r nAt Kyyba, the overall well-being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values;

incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.