Senior Principal Engineer, Cloud

What you will do–Essential Responsibilities

• Work with fellow associatesto develop and build self-service capabilities, and automation,to enable our internal customers to move quickly and deliver on the needs of the business.

• Collaborate with colleagues in design, product management, and systems architecture to develop experimental solutions and bring great ideas to life

• Influencedirectionwithin the organizationthat contributes to theCarMaxStrategicPlan,offeringinnovative ideasthat contribute tobuilding win-win solutions through continuousfeedbackand partnerships withyour peer andthe leadership team.

• Consult with internal customer and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.

• Stay on top Industry trends andlead the teamin new ideas, processes andbest practices to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be

Purpose of the role

Senior Principal Engineers partner with Engineers and Solution Architects to develop solutions and implement standards that ensure an unrivaled customer experience.  You are an expert in your craft and seen as a platform and implementation owner.  You are an active contributorthroughoutCarMaxTechnologyand have a passion for continuous learning.

Senior Principal Engineers practice hands-on engineering, have oversight of the technical tasks of others, and are the owners of the standards and best practices. Our Senior Principal Engineers act as a technical mentor to others and is an expert in supporting multiple areas of the business.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Scienceor related Technology field or equivalent experience and8+ years of work experienceor

• Master’s degree in Computer Scienceor related Technology fieldor equivalent experienceand6+ years of work experience

Cloud SpecificQualifications and Requirements

• 6+ years of working in and building Infrastructure within a cloud platform-Azure (preferred), AWS, Google (with relatable experience)

• 4+ years scripting or coding experience with one or more languages

• Deep technical experience in infrastructure, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization and access control

• Experience leading engineering efforts or process improvements across multiple teams

• Implementation of Azure networking for enterprise organizations, building of hybrid environments to span existing customer networks and Azure

• Demonstrable experience with a range of Azure cloud capabilities including but not limited to storage, key vaults, virtual networking, web apps, Azure Active Directory, virtual machines, access management and automated deployments

• Demonstrable experience with software development preferably with one or morelanguages, such asPowerShell, Python, C#

• Demonstrable experience building and deploying resilient cloud architectures

• Demonstrable experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Team City or Azure DevOps

• Demonstrable experience support Windows or Linux OS

• Mentoring internal and external team(s) in platform management and reusable patterns, and helping to solve complex problems that affect the organization

• Strong attention to detail, problem investigation and diagnostic skills 

• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation