Golang Job: Cloud Engineer

Join our elite team as a Cloud Engineer

Team CARFAX is looking for hands-on, system-level thinkers who understand the many tradeoffs of technology choices, engage with distributed teams, configure and build re-usable cloud patterns and assist development teams in migrating and operating their applications in the cloud.

The Culture at CARFAX
When was the last time you bragged about where you work? At CARFAX, we do it every day. Why? Because we’re proud to work for a company with a strong mission and trusted brand. We’re proud to work with people who care about what they do and work hard every day to deliver their best. We’ve created the type of company culture where the term, “work- hard play- hard” isn’t just a catchy saying, it’s part of the #CARFAXdifference!

As a Cloud Engineer you will:

• Work in a dynamic, agile, team environment designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining a robust cloud architecture to development teams
• Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
• Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams and other stakeholders
• Promote great Kubernetes and AWS platform design and quality
• Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications and processes
• Continuously analyzing and evaluating our systems, products and process for potential improvements
• Communicating across development teams to understand pain points and places where improvements can be beneficial
• Educating business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use of cloud tools and services

Required Experience & Skills

• Experience with AWS product offerings (e.g. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS a plus)
• Experience with the AWS Console, CLI and SDK
• Experience with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
• Experience migrating software applications to AWS
• Proficiency with at least one technology language like Java, Javascript, NodeJS, Golang or Python
• Have a broad set of technology skills - DEVSECOPS - Development, Security and Operations
• Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems
• Documentation and teaching mindset - Help others!
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and architecture
• Advanced experience in troubleshooting techniques
• Knowledge of security and performance best practices for cloud architectures
• Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool such as Jenkins or GitLab
• Be a firm believer in “automate everything”

Preferred Experience

• Familiarity with Traefik, gloo or Ambassador (Envoy is a plus)
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana
• Familiarity with CloudFront
• Cloud development experience leveraging AWS products such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, etc.
• Familiarity with Agile software development including Test Driven Development and Pair Programming.

You’ll need to:

• Communicate - Be vocal! We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is needed and valued!
• Have a Self-Driven attitude - ability to quickly come up to speed with different technologies on an ongoing basis
• Exhibit technical acumen - Be flexible! We love to change it up by using different technologies and need you to be open to new and different technologies!
• Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what’s new and be willing to dive in and learn.