IT Cloud Engineer

About Us:

Who is Mercedes-Benz Financial Services?
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.

Why work at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services?
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.

Benefits

When working at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, you will enjoy a comprehensive and amenity-rich benefits package offering something for every employee at each stage of their life.

As a new employee, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of the following benefits that go beyond – beginning day one:

Get Rewarded! Competitive salary plus an annual bonus based on company performance and/or personal yearly performance

Need a vacation? How about just some time for YOU! In addition to our vacation time, you’ll receive fifteen (15) additional corporate holidays, which will allow you to celebrate religious holidays or escape to the spa! Designed to be flexible, we let you decide which days are most important to you!

Ride in Style - All employees are eligible to participate in the Mercedes-Benz Employee Lease Program

We want you to be healthy! Outstanding medical, dental, and vision insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability plus on-site exercise facilities

Is your family growing? Enjoy generous paid Family Leave Programs - Six Weeks for New Parents; Adoption Expense Reimbursement Programs - up to $6k per child

Want to go back to school? Tuition Assistance Scholar Program - receive up to $8k in vouchers to complete business-related coursework

• $6k for undergraduate
• $8k for graduate

Job Overview:

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:

DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps 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. Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.
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. Recommended majors include:

• Computer Information Science

Required: American Payroll Association (APA)

Preferred:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• GitHub Actions Certification
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

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 GitHub 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 DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering
  • 
    Familiar with Azure & Cloud technologies: Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure FrontDoor, Azure

  Storage account, Azure virtual Network, Azure Postgres, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Kong, etc

  • 
    Familiar with DevOps 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,

  BlackDuck, Wiz, etc

Skills:

• IT skills

  • Application development

• Presentation skills

• Problem solving skills

• Facilitation skills

  • e-Technologies/Web

Posting Statement

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Mercedes-Benz Financial Services offers competitive salary, performance-based bonuses and a full suite of benefits including 401(K) with match, generous vacation and personal time, a Mercedes-Benz car program as well as flexible work arrangements.

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