Cloud Engineering Manager

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:

·    Position is remote, but preferred time zone is either EST or CST time zones.  Preferred close to one of the following CDK offices:  US - Hoffman Estates IL or Austin TX

·    Lead/Manage 12-15 cloud engineers who are responsible for maintaining the CDK AWS and Azure platforms.

·    Hire new engineers

·    Develop team and individual objectives, conduct performance reviews and manage performance for the team, salary/bonus administration, goals/objectives, etc.

·    Maintain CDK Cloud Engineering cloud roadmap

·    Lead acquisitions on-boarding into CDK’s enterprise cloud environments

·    Build relationship and be key point of contact between CDK and Microsoft and AWS Account teams

·    Manage escalations from Operations into Cloud Engineering (define/manage escalation process, etc.)

·    Define and lead implementation of CDK’s Public Cloud standards including secrets management, storage, compute, networking, account management, database and operations. 

·    Consult with product teams on the use of specific AWS Services, Security best practices and cost optimization best practices

Position Qualifications:

• Previous hands-on experience (min 3-4 years) as a Cloud Engineer working on AWS and/or Azure 

• Experience leading a cloud engineering team of 10-15 engineers and cloud administrators.

• Good knowledge of the following AWS services: EC2, EKS. RDS, Lambda,  Load Balancing (ALB/ELB), VPC’s, Availablity Zones/Regions, EBS, S3, Archive Services, AWS Backup, Service Control Policies, Guard Duty, AWS Identity and Access Management, Cost Optimizer, Trusted Advisor, Cost Explorer, Cloudability 

• Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies, Site Reliablity Engineering practices 

• Good understanding of DevOps practices and tools such as Github/Artifactory/Bamboo/Terraform 

• Working knowledge of Cloud Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL), Containerization Solutions (Docker, Kubernetes), Message queuing, data streaming and caching solutions (prefer Kafka), Networking principles and concepts 

• Some experience with scripting and development against AWS and Azure cloud platform APIs; preferred Python & Java languages 

• Experience with 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 

• Solid communication skills 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 with 3-5 years working withing public cloud environments 

• AWS Solution Architect Professional certification preferred 

Salary: $135 - $180K + Bonus

CDK Global is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Compensation packages are based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, certifications, and work locatio