Cloud Engineer II, MDM Informatica

Overview

Why GMF Technology?

GM Financial is set to change the auto finance industry and is leading the path of embarking on tech modernization - we have a startup mindset, and preserve our small company culture, in a public company environment with financial stability and intense growth over a decade-long history. We are data junkies and trust in data and insights to advance our business objectives.

We take our goal of zero emission, zero collision, zero congestion, and zero friction very seriously. We believe as the auto finance market leader we are in the driver's seat to lead us in the GM EV mission to change the world.

We are building global platforms, LATAM, Europe, China - and we are looking to grow our high-performing team. GMF is comprised of over 10,000 team members globally. Join our fintech culture within a Blue-Chip company where we are changing the way we use technology to support our customers and business.

Responsibilities

Overview

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working collaboratively in an agile team to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. The person in this role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.

What makes an ideal candidate?

• Collaborate with product owners and managers to establish service level objectives for applications and agreed consequences if the objectives are not being met

• Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems that may exist in cloud-hosted environments

• Develop Informatica Customer 360, Business 360, Reference 360, Cloud Data Quality & Cloud Data Integration implementation design and build for MDM SaaS, Cloud Data Governance related uses cases

• Determine ways to improve current product usage and adoption to meet customer requirements

Work with Customers on solution brainstorming, solution design, and solution implementation for customers C360, B360, R360, Cloud Data Quality and Cloud Data Integration and Master Data requirements.

• Ensure that cybersecurity controls are met or exceeded

• Creation of Azure CLI and/or PowerShell scripts to automate repetitive tasks

• Willingness and ability to take a "code first" approach to fully automate the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and environments using Terraform, Chef, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy and other tools

• While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud

• Knowledge and experience provisioning and managing Azure Managed Identities, Service Principal Names (SPNs) and Enterprise Applications in Azure

• Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements

• Able to lead training sessions, develop curriculum, and code labs for other internal teams under general supervision

• Willingness to instruct and coach in a cross-team cloud training program as needed

• Ability to facilitate group meetings/discussions

• Ability to broker solutions for issues with a department and with team-external leaders

• Be available for an on-call rotation to participate in troubleshooting and communication efforts outside of normal business hours

• Create and implement standards and best practices, driving adoption across development teams and external vendors as applicable

• Build data pipelines in Azure environments and integrate with MDM tools for ingress and egress jobs

• Experience in performance tuning of Informatica MDM SaaS Products

Experience with current trends in SaaS products, cloud data integration, cloud data quality, cloud ecosystems and business analytics technologies.

• Software development expertise in multiple high-level programming and scripting languages such as C#, Java, nodejs python or other languages determined by the department VP

• Strong Experience in designing, building, and optimizing automated data pipelines with automated testing and automated security controls

• Working knowledge of Databricks and IICS CDGC preferred.

• Help establish and maintain a culture of learning through the development and sharing of skills, knowledge, process and tools; combat traditional silos that create "us and them" environments

• A driving passion for finding solutions to hard problems at scale and operationalizing them

• Exceptional critical thinking and communication skills, with a passion for leveraging documentation as a tool for constant improvement

• Master Data Management: Informatica MDM, IICS, C360, B360, R360, Cloud Data Quality and Cloud Data Integration

Database Technologies (one or more of the following): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (eg CosmosDB, MongoDB)

• Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy or other similar tools

• Source Code repos: User level and demonstrated knowledge of Git including cloning, branching and other regular commands

• Experience with one or more of the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service

• Ability to navigate the Linux operating system and perform basic operations

• High level programming languages: Java, C#, Python, Go, or similar

• Scripting: PowerShell, Bash

• Database Technologies (one or more of the following): Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (eg CosmosDB)

• Test Automation: Understanding of unit testing tools such as junit, nunit, or similar

• Operating systems: Windows, Linux

• Cloud Platforms (one or more of the following): Azure, Amazon AWS, GCP

• Demonstrated knowledge of secrets management in the cloud using solutions such as Hashicorp Vault or Azure Key Vault

• Advanced knowledge of cloud security frameworks and tooling such as Azure Policy or Azure Security Kit

Qualifications

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work or military experience required

• Master's Degree in a related field preferred

• 3-5 years of progressive IT experience with a minimum of 1 years' experience in software development, test automation, system administration or infrastructure/operations required

• 2-3 years of experience in cloud technologies with at least 1 year of project experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar technologies required

Licenses

• Current Azure DevOps Expert or Azure Architect Expert certification or equivalent AWS or GCP certification required

What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.

Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture - an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work - we thrive.

Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibility

Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office

Note:Please note we are not able to consider candidates who require visa sponsorship for this position.

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