Job Description

Why GMF Technology?

GM Financial is set to change the auto finance industry and is leading the path of embarking on tech modernization – we have a startup mindset, and preserve our small company culture, in a public company environment with financial stability and intense growth over a decade-plus history. We are data junkies and trust in data and insights to advance our business objectives. We take our goal of zero emission, zero collision, zero congestion, and zero friction very seriously. We believe as an auto finance market leader we are in the driver's seat to lead us in the GM EV mission to change the world. We are building global platforms, in LATAM, Europe, China, U.S. and Canada– and we are looking to grow our high-performing team. GMF is comprised of over 10,000 team members globally. Join our fintech culture within a Blue-Chip company where we are changing the way we use technology to support our customers, dealers and business.

Flexible hybrid work environment (onsite 2 days a week/3 days remote) at our Arlington (AOC1), TX office.

Please note: We are unable to provide any type of sponsorship for this position at this time.

Responsibilities

About this role

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working collaboratively in an agile team to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. The person in this role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.

Job Duties

Build secure cloud solutions in major public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services
Collaborate with product owners and managers to establish service level objectives for applications and agreed consequences if the objectives are not being met
Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems that may exist in cloud-hosted environments
Ensure that cybersecurity controls are met or exceeded
Creation of Azure CLI and/or PowerShell scripts to automate repetitive tasks
Willingness and ability to take a “code first” approach to fully automate the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Terraform, Chef, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy and other tools
While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud
Evangelize distributed version control and trunk-based development practices, ATDD and TDD, pipelines and infrastructure and release automation
Knowledge and experience provisioning and managing Azure Managed Identities, Service Principal Names (SPNs) and Enterprise Applications in Azure
Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements
Be available for an on-call rotation to participate in troubleshooting and communication efforts outside of normal business hours

Qualifications

What makes you a dream candidate?

Experience And Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field or additional equivalent work or military experience required
Master’s Degree in related field preferred
1-3 years of progressive IT experience with specific experience in cloud software development, test automation, system administration, infrastructure/operations or equivalent training required
Experience in cloud with at least one year of project experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) strongly preferred
Experience working in Agile Scrum teams preferred
Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy or other similar tools
Code Scanning: use of tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Kube-Bench, or similar
Source Code repos: User level and demonstrated knowledge of Git including cloning, branching and other regular commands
Experience with one or more of the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service
Ability to navigate the Linux operating system and perform basic operations
High level programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar
Scripting: PowerShell, Bash
Database Technologies (one or more of the following): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (eg CosmosDB)
Test Automation: Understanding of unit testing tools such as junit, nunit, or similar
Operating systems: Windows, Linux
Cloud Platforms (one or more of the following): Azure, Amazon AWS, GCP
Metrics and Monitoring: Splunk, or other SIEM tool
Demonstrated knowledge of secrets management in the cloud using solutions such as Hashicorp Vault or Azure Key Vault
Advanced knowledge of cloud security frameworks and tooling such as Azure Policy or Azure Security Kit

What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office

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