Cloud Site Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, part of the global company Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG is the captive financing and mobility solutions company of the global luxury automobile manufacturer, Mercedes-Benz AG. We offer a comprehensive range of automotive financial and insurance products that make it easy for our customers to drive their dream Mercedes-Benz vehicle. Working at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services is more than a job – it's an opportunity to join an innovative team where you are valued for your contributions.

As an employee, you will experience career development in a positive, employee-centric environment. We're a global company that not only offers best-in-class products to our customers but also best-in-class benefits to our employees. Our employees experience a comfortable, friendly environment and relaxed, inclusive culture.

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead the migration of on-prem application to Cloud and to maintain the Cloud applications. This role is a hands-on role involving design, coding, implementation of Azure Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, this role also will be responsible for reliability engineering of applications, monitoring and incident response. This role requires experience in Azure Cloud Software continuous integration & delivery, infrastructure automation and site reliability engineering.

Responsibilities:

• Dev Ops Support for Software Development and Testing
• Set up infrastructure environments on Cloud using an infra-as-code approach
• Migrate on-prem applications to the Cloud
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the application
• Set up monitoring and alerting solutions for the application
• Deliver corresponding code and scripts
• Manage suppliers to ensure delivery of IT services
• Support application Dev Ops lifecycle
• Perform POC with new technology solutions that are recommended by architects (50%)
• Site Reliability Engineering Support for Application
• Provide L3 Support for production incidents
• Maintain application, infrastructure, and Dev Ops pipelines
• Monitor application and infrastructure
• Collaborating with Developers in testing and fixing bugs
• Onboard APIs to OneAPI/Kong gateway for the application
• Perform DB data refresh to the lower environment from the Production environment (40%)
• Communication Support
• Guide developers and quality assurance engineers on how to use the software environment
• Communicate with upstream and downstream IT teams to ensure smooth application development & operations
• Provide on-call support for the application when needed (10%)

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of application. This position requires a minimum of 8 years of overall work experience. Preferred experience includes:
• Information Technology: 8 years
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's Degree is required, Master's Degree is preferred. Recommended majors include:
• Computer/Information Science
• Information Technology
• Additional Knowledge:
• Experience in setting up and managing environments on Azure using Terraform infrastructure as code
• Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure using Git Hub Actions and FluxCD
• Experience in on-prem to cloud migration
• Experience in containerization of applications using Kubernetes
• Experience in Monitoring and alerting solutions:
  Azure Monitor and Datadog
• Experience in Dev Ops and Site Reliability Engineering
• Familiar with Azure & Cloud technologies:
  Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Front Door, Azure Storage account, Azure virtual Network, Azure Postgres, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Kong, etc
• Familiar with Dev Ops technologies:
  Github Enterprise, Github Actions pipelines, FluxCD, Helm Chart, Kustomize, Terraform, Datadog, Jira, Confluence, etc
• Familiar with security and compliance practices:
  Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark, Coverity, Black Duck, Wiz, etc
• Preferred:
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified:
  Dev Ops Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Hashi Corp Certified:
  Terraform Associate
• Git Hub Actions Certification
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Skills:
• Facilitation skills
• IT skills
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving skills