Job#: 3042106
Job Description:
Role: Cloud Engineer
Location: Hybrid - 4 days/week onsite in SE MI
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Description:
As a Software Engineer on the Cloud Engineering team, you will design, develop, and maintain the cloud platform, infrastructure, and automation tooling that powers our connected vehicle ecosystem. You will play a key role in improving reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across a platform serving millions of vehicles worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Development & Automation
- Design and build cloud-native solutions that enable automated, repeatable shard provisioning.
- Develop tooling for:
- Kubernetes cluster bootstrapping
- Network configuration
- Service mesh deployment
- Health validation and readiness checks
- Build control plane capabilities that allow a new shard to be provisioned and production-ready within 24 hours with zero manual intervention.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Software Engineering.
- Experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
- 3+ years of experience managing cloud infrastructure in AWS and/or GCP.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on experience provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS or GKE) in production environments.
- Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
- Experience with GitOps workflows and infrastructure automation.
- Proficiency developing and maintaining Helm charts.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in cloud and distributed systems environments.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar solutions.
Core Competencies
Kubernetes Administration
- Cluster operations and upgrades
- Networking and security
- Workload management
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
Infrastructure Engineering
- Platform operations
- Reliability and scalability
- Configuration management
- Operational excellence
Preferred Qualifications
Cloud & Platform Technologies
- Google Cloud Platform (GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Workload Identity, VPC-SC, Cloud Operations)
- AWS cloud services and infrastructure management
- Multi-cloud platform architecture and migration strategies
Kubernetes Ecosystem
- Istio service mesh administration
- Traffic management and observability
- Helm chart development and lifecycle management
API Gateway Technologies
- Tyk
- Apigee
- NGINX
- Routing policies, mTLS, and API governance
CI/CD & Automation
- ArgoCD
- Tekton
- Concourse
- GitOps deployment methodologies
Programming Languages
- Python
- Go
- Java (Spring Boot)
- Node.js
- Bash or PowerShell scripting
Security
- IAM and role-based access control
- OAuth2/OIDC
- mTLS implementation
- Multi-cloud security architecture
Additional Preferred Skills
- gRPC service development
- Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) schema management
- Atlantis, Terragrunt, or collaborative Terraform workflow tools
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
