Cloud Engineer

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Job title:

Cloud Engineer

Job Introduction: 

The Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions, primarily within Microsoft Azure. The role partners with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective cloud design, deploy and monitor infrastructure, optimize resource consumption through FinOps practices, and maintain compliance with organizational security standards. The position also collaborates with global teams to provide operational support, implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and remain current with evolving cloud technologies and industry best practices. This role is instrumental in leveraging cloud capabilities to deliver measurable business value and enable the organization’s digital transformation objectives.

Major Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with engineering and development teams to assess requirements and determine optimal cloud solutions.
• Enhance and optimize existing cloud solutions to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide technical guidance to teams on the evaluation, adoption, and implementation of new cloud technologies and strategic initiatives.
• Design, develop, and deploy modular, resilient, and scalable cloud-based systems.

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve cloud solutions in accordance with established architectural standards and industry best practices
• Ensure the reliable and efficient operation of data storage and processing services in alignment with company security policies, compliance requirements, and cloud security best practices.
• Identify, assess, and remediate infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues in a timely and effective manner.
• Conduct periodic reviews of existing cloud systems and recommend improvements to enhance security, performance, availability, and cost effectiveness.
• Engage with clients and internal stakeholders to provide cloud support, understand evolving requirements, and recommend appropriate solutions aligned with business needs.

Knowledge and Education: 

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.

Work Experience: 

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, and supporting production cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and managed platform services.
• Practical experience developing and maintaining continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
• Experience administering cloud environments and performing systems operations, incident response, troubleshooting, patching, backup, and recovery activities.
• Experience provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure through automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using native or third-party cloud management tools.
• Working knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, firewalls, private connectivity, load balancing, and DNS.
• Experience applying cloud security principles, including identity and access management, least-privilege access, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and policy compliance.
• Experience supporting highly available, resilient, and scalable workloads across development, testing, and production environments.
• Exposure to cloud cost management and FinOps practices, including resource tagging, usage analysis, rightsizing, budgeting, and cost optimization.
• Experience collaborating with application development, cybersecurity, architecture, and operations teams in a global enterprise environment.
• Experience preparing technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture records, and support runbooks.

Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective resolutions.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate productively across technical, business, and global stakeholder groups.
• Strong client and stakeholder management capabilities, including the ability to understand requirements, manage expectations, and maintain trusted professional relationships.

Health, Safety & Environment (HSE): 

Maintains safe work practices, complies with Magna H&S requirements, and participates in training and hazard reporting. 

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That’s why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.

AI-Assisted Screening Disclosure

As part of our commitment to a fair, consistent, and efficient recruitment process, we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications submitted through our Workday system. These tools help identify qualifications and experience that align with the role requirements. Please note that AI is used solely to support our recruiters. Final decisions are always made by the hiring manager and the hiring team. Importantly, no applicant data is shared externally through these AI tools. All information remains securely within our systems and is handled in accordance with our privacy and data protection policies.

Under conditions defined by applicable law, you may have the right to request an explanation of how AI is used to support decision-making.

If you have any questions or concerns about this process, feel free to contact our Talent Attraction team.