Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer (Azure)

About Us:

CDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.
 
The CDK Global technology team is looking for collaborative innovators who are passionate about making their mark on emerging enterprise software products. We’re building and developing cloud technology for the automotive retail industry that will change the landscape for automotive dealers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the customers they serve. 
 
Be Part of Something Bigger 
 
Each year, more than three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is attributed to the auto industry, which flows through our customer, the auto dealer. It’s time you joined an evolving marketplace where research and development investment is measured in the tens of billions. It’s time you were a part of something bigger. 
 
We’re expanding our workforce – engineers, architects, developers and more – onboarding early adopters who can optimize, pivot and keep pace with ever-evolving development roadmaps and applications. 

• Lead the way – Do you have a passion for doing public cloud right? Your technical thought leadership and deep skills will set the path for CDK’s use of public cloud computing. You will influence the organization at all levels.  
• Automate, Automate, Automate - you’ll lead initiatives to automate everything from assisting application development teams in writing deployment code to developing Infrastructure-as-Code to drive security, operational process automation and governance.  
• There’s got to be a better way - Can you look at an architecture, process, or application flow and see a more stable, standard, or optimized way to accomplish the same thing? Do you ask “why” when a request doesn’t sound right? Do you see problems and immediately want to fix them yourself? Can you find ways to quantify and prioritize these improvements?  

Join Our Team 
 
Growth potential, flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a next-gen, enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging, fast-paced engineering environments. The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology. 
 
If you’re ready for high-impact, you’re ready for CDK. 
 
Location: 

• US (preferred Austin, TX or Chicago, IL)  
   
   

Role 

• Responsible for maintaining the Azure Platform architecture supporting CDK Public Cloud Governance and product/application adoption  
• Design/Development of Azure governance solutions (managing security, cost optimization and tech debt)  
• Develop/maintain/implement cloud platform standards (IAM, tagging, security, account management, networking, DR, database, etc.)  
• Support product development teams and infrastructure teams in the implementation of governance solutions (security, cost optimization, etc.)  
• Maintain minimum application deployment standards (governance, cost management and tech deb perspective). Work with infrastructure technical leads to develop and maintain domain standards (database, networking, compute, security, messaging, etc.)  
• Work with Security to define security requirements and controls, design and implement solutions (ex Defender, Sentinel, Azure Key Vault, etc.) to support overall security of the CDK Azure environment.  
• Work with Infrastructure engineering teams to ensure standards and reference solutions are develop with respect to the domain areas (Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, etc.)  
• Analyzing complex business and software requirements leading to the selection and implementation of appropriate technical public cloud solutions (ex Secrets Management, Messaging, etc.).  
• Ensuring the software and development requirements align to the defined public cloud infrastructure service standards  
• Ensure architecture, process, standards and best practice documentation is current  
• Optimizing and tuning designs based on performance and root cause analysis  
• Analysis of existing solutions alignment to infrastructure standards and providing feedback to both evolve and mature the solution.  
• Utilizing your experience and skillset to influence and guide the Infrastructure Services Roadmap  
• During cloud operational issues, assist product and operational teams to identify root cause and recommend remediation activities.  
   
   

Essential Skills & Experience 

• This is a hands-on role where the candidate is expected to take on technical tasks where in depth knowledge on usage and engineering best practices of Azure/public cloud technologies is important:  
• Preferred key experience includes 6-8 years of Azure experience with majority the following Azure services/capabilities:  
• Compute/DB: VM’s, Azure DB, SQL Server MI  
• Networking: Load Balancing, vNet’s, Availablity Zones/Regions, WAF/FW, Express Route, VPN, Private Link, DNS, etc.  
• Storage: Block, BLOB, Archive Services, Azure Container Storage, etc.  
• Security: Service Control Policies, IAM, Defender, Sentinel, etc.  
• Cloud FinOps: Azure Advisor, Cost Management & Billing  
• Other: OpenSearch, Backup  
• 2-4 years of experience of using data analytics and Azure cost investigative techniques/tools (3rd party FinOps tools, etc.) to identify cost optimization opportunities and working with application teams to achieve those savings identified.  
• 3-5 years implementing and managing security controls in an Azure environment. Experience with Azure security capabilities  
• 2-3 years development/scripting experience (Python & Java preferred) leveraging Azure CLI/SDK  
• 2-3 years of experience with Infrastructure as code (ex. Terraform/OpenTofu) and related DevOps tools to facilitate automated application deployments.  
• Broad understanding/experience across full stack infrastructure technologies preferred. Looking for candidates with experience with a minimum of 4 of the following areas and willingness to learn the other areas.  
• Database solutions (SQL/NoSQL)  
• Containerization Solutions (Docker, Kubernetes)  
• DevOps processes and tooling  
• Message queuing, data streaming and caching solutions (MQ, Kafka)  
• Micro-service architecture  
• Networking principles and concepts  
• Disaster Recovery solutions  
• Development and Implementation of Azure Cost Optimization solutions (rightsizing, storage optimization, etc.)  
• Site Reliablity Engineering practices  
• Experience of working within an Infrastructure team utilizing multi-cloud and Private/Public/Hybrid cloud models  
• General knowledge of server based operating systems (Windows/Linux) and Web Services (IIS, Apache)  
• Strong analytical and presentation/communication skills  
• Experience of designing, optimizing and troubleshooting public cloud platforms associated with large, complex application stacks  
• Have clear and concise communication and be comfortable working with at all levels in the organization  
• Preferred but not required; Azure Solutions Administrator/Architect certification along with hands on experience of designing and managing Azure cloud solutions.  
   

Compensation: $122,000 - $150,000