Sr. Cloud Engineer

About this job

At Car Max, we are industry disruptors. At the heart of our innovation is new digital products. As an Operations team, our Senior Engineers research and discover new opportunities to ensure that our products which provide our seamless customer experience have a strong foundation. You will iterate and evolve the cloud platform and applications used to manage the platform, and will develop tools and technologies, learning quickly from our spirit of experimentation.

You will have an impact on ensuring that our applications are reliable and resilient by using cloud concepts and technologies. Through a strong partnership with other engineers, you will contribute to the overall Car Max strategy as we build and deliver an exceptional customer experience to ensure customers can buy the vehicles they want in a way that’s right for them.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer for CAF Technology, you will be responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of CAF application infrastructure. This position is a key contributor in the software development life‑cycle, performing analysis and design, development, and working to achieve project goals. The responsibilities revolve around ownership of assigned engineering tasks and software development projects, ensuring that application development efforts consistently meet business requirements, direction, and standards, and may include coordinating the tasks of others.

• Communicate regularly both verbally and in writing at various levels to include management, other engineers, and developers.
• Focus on developing, implementing, and operationalizing cloud solutions that are highly available and resilient.
• Perform configuration, troubleshooting, and ongoing management of various cloud technologies.
• Build infrastructure, networks, and systems for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery through infrastructure‑as‑code.
• Share ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Consult with internal customers and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices to continually improve what we do, and how we do it.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technology field, or equivalent experience and 5+ years of work experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technology field, or equivalent experience and 3+ years of work experience.

• 4+ years of experience building infrastructure within a cloud platform – Azure (preferred), AWS, or Google Cloud.
• 2+ years of scripting or coding experience with one or more languages.
• Technical experience in infrastructure, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization, and access control.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure cloud capabilities such as storage, key vaults, virtual networking, web apps, Azure Active Directory, virtual machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, containerization, access management, and automated deployments.
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying resilient cloud architectures.
• Demonstrated experience with software development, preferably with languages such as Power Shell, Python, or C#.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub Actions or Azure Dev Ops.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Windows and Linux OS.
• Mentor team in platform management and reusable patterns.
• Strong attention to detail, problem investigation, and diagnostic skills.
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation.

This role will be based out of the Richmond, VA Technology Innovation Center. Associates based in Richmond will work onsite four days per week.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis.

Car Max is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Upon an applicant's request, Car Max will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the Car Max Job Application.