Join Team CARFAX as a Cloud Engineer
Isn't it time you bragged about where you work? At CARFAX, we do, every day. We pride ourselves on being mission-focused on helping to grow a brand built on accuracy and integrity. We care deeply about our products and our customers. We're more than just a company: We help millions of consumers make more-informed decisions every day. We know that our teammates are our most valuable asset, and we value a balanced life while tackling challenging projects in a fast-paced environment.
At CARFAX, we believe in the power of teamwork and value in-person interactions so that we can collaborate and thrive together. This position will require 2 days per week in our London,ON office subject to change with future business needs.
What you'll be doing:
- Work in a dynamic, agile, team environment designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining a robust cloud architecture to development teams
- Participate in design decisions, including new technology research and prototyping
- Collaborate closely with other AWS engineers and architects, cloud engineers, support teams and other stakeholders
- Promote great Kubernetes and AWS platform design and quality
- Innovate new ideas to evolve our applications and processes
- Continuously analyzing and evaluating our systems, products and process for potential improvements
- Communicating across development teams to understand pain points and places where improvements can be beneficial
- Educating business stakeholders and product development teams on the proper use of cloud tools and services
What we're looking for:
- Experience with AWS product offerings (e.g. EC2, VPCs, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS a plus)
- Experience with the AWS Console, CLI and SDK
- Experience with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
- Experience migrating software applications to AWS
- Proficiency with at least one technology language like Java, Javascript, NodeJS, Golang or Python.
- Have a broad set of technology skills - DEVSECOPS - Development, Security and Operations
- Operational experience - ready to own the uptime and quality of systems
- Documentation and teaching mindset - Help others!
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and architecture
- Advanced experience in troubleshooting techniques
- Knowledge of security and performance best practices for cloud architectures
- Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines leveraging a tool such as Jenkins or GitLab
- Be a firm believer in “automate everything”
Preferred Experience
- Familiarity with Traefik, gloo or Ambassador (Envoy is a plus)
- Familiarity with Istio service mesh.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana
- Familiarity with CloudFront
- Cloud development experience leveraging AWS products such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, etc.
- Familiarity with Agile software development including Test Driven Development and Pair Programming.
You'll need to:
- Communicate - Be vocal! We believe in the wisdom of crowds and your input is needed and valued!
- Have a Self-Driven attitude - ability to quickly come up to speed with different technologies on an ongoing basis
- Exhibit technical acumen - Be flexible! We love to change it up by using different technologies and need you to be open to new and different technologies!
- Love to learn! To get the greatest solutions we need to continually explore what's new and be willing to dive in and learn.
What's in it for you:
- Competitive compensation, benefits and generous time-off policies.
- 4-Day summer work weeks and a winter holiday break.
- 401(k) / DCPP matching
- Annual bonus program
- Casual, dog-friendly, and innovative office spaces
Don't just take our word for it:
- 10X Virginia Business Best Places to Work
- 9X Washingtonian Great Places to Work
- 9X Washington Post Top Workplace
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