Job Role:  Cloud Governance Engineer – AWS 

Who are we? 
CDK Global is the largest technical soltuions provider for the automotive retail industry that is setting the the landscape for automotive dealers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the customers they serve.  As a technology company, we have a significant focus moving our applications to the public cloud and in the process working multiple transformation/modernization  
 
Be Part of Something Bigger 
Each year, more than three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is attributed to the auto industry, which flows through our customer, the auto dealer. It’s time you joined an evolving marketplace where research and development investment is measured in the tens of billions. It’s time you were a part of something bigger. 
 
We’re expanding our workforce – engineers, architects, developers and more – onboarding early adopters who can optimize, pivot and keep pace with ever-evolving development roadmaps and applications. 

• Lead the way – Do you have a passion for doing public cloud right?   Your technical thought leadership and deep skills will set the path for CDK’s use of public cloud computing.  You will influence the organization at all levels. 

• Automate, Automate, Automate - you’ll lead initiatives to automate everything from assisting application development teams in writing deployment code to developing Infrastructure-as-Code to drive security, operational process automation and governance. 

• There’s got to be a better way - Can you look at an architecture, process, or application flow and see a more stable, standard, or optimized way to accomplish the same thing? Do you ask “why” when a request doesn’t sound right? Do you see problems and immediately want to fix them yourself? Can you find ways to quantify and prioritize these improvements? 

 
Join Our Team 
Growth potential, flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a next-gen, enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging, fast-paced engineering environments.  The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology. 

If you’re ready for high-impact, you’re ready for CDK. 

Location:  

• Hyderbad, India 

Role: 

• Define/Maintain/Implement CDK’s Public Clould standards including secrets management, storage, compute, networking, account management, database and operations. 

• Design/Develop/Implement cloud solutions.  Leveraging cloud native services, wrap the appropriate security, automation and service levels to support CDK business needs.   Examples of solutions this role will be responsible for developing and supporting are Business Continuity/Backup and Recovery, Identity and Access Management, data services including long term archival, DNS, etc. 

• Develop/maintain/implement cloud platform standards (User Access & Roles, tagging, security/compliance controls, operations management, performance management and configuration management) 

• Responsible for writing and eventual automation of operational run-books for operations. 

• Assist application teams with automating their production support run-books (automate everywhere) 

• Assist application teams when they have issues using AWS services where they are not are fully up to speed in their use. Hands on development of automation solutions to support application teams. 

• Define and maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance, cost management and tech debt) 

• Optimizing and tuning designs based on performance and root cause analysis 

• Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the product solutions and CDK public cloud standards. 

Essential Duties & Skills: 

• This is a hands-on role where the candidate will take on technical tasks where in depth knowledge on usage and public cloud best practices.  Some of the areas within AWS where you will be working include: 

• Compute: EC2, EKS. RDS, Lambda 

• Networking:  Load Balancing (ALB/ELB), VPC’s, Availablity Zones/Regions 

• Storage:  EBS, S3, Archive Services, AWS Backup 

• Security:  Service Control Policies, Guard Duty, AWS Identity and Access Management 

• Cloud Optimization:  Cost Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer, Cloudability 

• Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies  

• Site Reliablity Engineering practices 

• Github/Artifactory/Bamboo/Terraform 

• Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL) 

• Containerization Solutions (Docker, Kubernetes) 

• DevOps processes and tooling 

• Message queuing, data streaming and caching solutions 

• Networking principles and concepts 

• Scripting and development; preferred Python & Java languages 

• Server based operating systems (Windows/Linux) and Web Services (IIS, Apache) 

• Experience of designing, optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large, complex application stacks 

• Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with at all levels in the organization 

• Capable of managing and prioritize multiple projects with competing resource requirements and timelines 

• Years of Experience:  

• 10 yrs+ working in an IT Infrastructure related role along with associated design experience. 

• 4-5 yrs+ working in the AWS public cloud environment 

• AWS Solution Architect Professional certification preferred 

• Experience with Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation, Terraform)