Principal Cloud Engineer

Job Description:

Are you looking to join a dynamic, inclusive modern cloud engineering team with a culture of collaboration, hard work, fun, and belonging?

Do you know how to enable scale, modern governance, and a cloud maturity model to drive a modern enterprise cloud environment?

Do you want to help teams learn what is truly possible with cloud native solutions and drive innovation based on real data?

Well, this may be the role for you. Ready to design what is next?

In this role, you will build the tools that govern and manage the global GCP team (Google Cloud Platform). Data driven continuous improvement is how we enable best practices for our ~10,000+ engineers. Key goals for the Public Cloud Engineering Team include improving overall cloud maturity, helping team build resilient cloud native applications, delivering a secure and compliant cloud offering, and reducing time to market.

To thrive in this career, you will need to know how to build a modern global enterprise cloud. You write code just about every day and are very familiar with git / GitOps and Terraform. You should strive to make those around you better while helping teams continuously improve based on real data. Modern cloud governance, observability, and cloud native application architecture should be very familiar to you. Our best Cloud Engineers are curious, have an engineering mindset, are not afraid to fail, and are continuous learners who stay current on new technology. We like folks that work hard, collaborate openly, and have fun along the way.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Here's what you can expect on a typical day:

• Scrums. We start every day with a scrum, working together to understand responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate priorities and challenges.
• Collaboration and Communication. We will work together to realize our roadmap, learn from each other, and build a modern enterprise cloud for ADP to leverage globally.
• Challenges. We learn something new every day. We need to keep up with the changes in the market, the demands of our internal and external customers, and stive to make today just a little better than yesterday.
• Learning. We are always learning and investigating open-source communities for best practices. The cloud world evolves rapidly so you must be willing and able to learn new things.
• Variety of work. We are driving an ever-evolving roadmap and support several cloud related domains. Your work will vary day to day, but common tasks include building self-service products for our internal customers to use, helping teams build cloud native applications the ADP way, mentoring your colleagues, and helping a team trouble shoot a production issue.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE:

You will have a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent work experience.

Prior experience that would give you extra comfort in the role includes:

• At least ten (10) years of recent experience as a hands-on architect / engineer in the public cloud space.
• You know the public cloud and have extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Writing code just about daily and very familiar with git and how to build an enterprise grade automation toolset.
• Demonstrate expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git / GitOps practices and cloud-native technologies. You will utilize a variety of IaC tools, anchored by Terraform.
• Establishing cloud platforms that are secure, cost-effective and easy for teams to adopt.
• Being a thought leader and mentor to Senior engineers.