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Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

@ FedEx
United States
$6k-$15k/moRemoteFull Time
Responsibilities:provision infrastructure, design azure, build pipelines
Requirements Summary:Cloud engineer with Azure expertise, IaC, and DevOps experience; leadership in projects; strong communication.
Technical Tools Mentioned:Terraform, Azure, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Nifi, Kafka, Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, JSON, YAML, IaC, Azure DevOps
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Job Description

Our team is accountable for the deployment, integration, and management of private, public, and/or hybrid cloud platform services supporting the development of advanced analytical applications at enterprise scale. You'll demonstrate networking and security protocol knowledge to ensure a safe and scalable environment, while protecting accessibility to data assets residing within. You'll tap into your expertise in developing infrastructure as code using scripts, templates, blueprints, workflows, CI/CD orchestration tools, and other automation technologies in the spirit of speed and consistency.

Continuous teamwork will be a meaningful aspect of this role as you will work with a variety of architects and peer engineering teams to ensure our cloud solutions meet the organization's needs!


Duties & Responsibilities

  • Use infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform to provision and support reliable, fault tolerant and scalable cloud-based storage, compute, and networking services
  • Experience working on an Azure based infrastructure
  • Design and implement enterprise-level data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Open Source frameworks like Apache Spark, Flink, Nifi, and Kafka on ADO (Azure Dev Ops)
  • Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, Json Yaml, IaC, Terraform
  • Build metrics and monitoring solutions to track latency and overall health of the system.
  • Work with data governance and data lake teams to implement access controls to data and services
  • Work closely with Security and SRE teams
  • End to end implementation of CICD pipelines from scratch
  • Follow information security guidelines to secure all cloud-based resources.
  • Create and maintain source code repository and gated CI/CD pipelines to build, package and deploy applications
  • Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Running periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
  • Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
  • Supervising the processes during the entire lifecycle for its alignment and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
  • Configuration and handling databases such as MySQL, Mongo
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Solid understanding of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
  • Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Minimum Qualifications:


Cloud Engineer II:
Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Three (3) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.
(Sponsorship for this position level is not available)

Cloud Engineer III:

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Five (5) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Some experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Cloud Engineer Lead:

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience. Seven (7) years’ experience in cloud engineering or related field. Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting. Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills. A related advanced degree may offset the related experience requirements.

Domicile / Relocation Information:
  • This position can be located anywhere in the United States. The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need.

Application Criteria:

  • Upload current copy of Resume (Microsoft Word or PDF format only) and answer job screening questionnaire by August 30, 2023.


Born out of FedEx, a pioneer that ships nearly 20 million packages a day and manages endless threads of information, FedEx Dataworks is an organization rooted in connecting the physical and digital sides of our network to meet today's needs and address tomorrow's challenges.

We are creating opportunities for FedEx, our customers, and the world at large by:

  • Exploring and harnessing data to define and solve true problems;
  • Removing barriers between data sets to create new avenues of insight;
  • Building and iterating on solutions that generate value;
  • Acting as a change agent to advance curiosity and performance.

At FedEx Dataworks, we are making supply chains work smarter for everyone.


Dataworks does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, Dataworks is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [email protected].