Cloud Networking & Security Engineer

AWS Cloud & Security Engineer

About Us

CDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.

Position Summary

Responsibilities

• 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 
• 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) 

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with AWS Cloud Platform and its services.

• Familiar with Infrastructure as code such as terraform and Ansible.

• Good knowledge of shell and Python scripting.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Previous experience providing operational support to AWS environments.

At CDK, we believe inclusion and diversity are essential in inspiring meaningful connections to our people, customers and communities. We are open, curious and encourage different views, so that everyone can be their best selves and make an impact.

CDK is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an inclusive workforce where everyone is valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, creed or religion, age, disability (including pregnancy), results of genetic testing, service in the military, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

Applicants for employment in the US must be authorized to work in the US.  CDK may offer employer visa sponsorship to applicants.

Experience Level

Senior Level