Sr. Engineer Cloud

CarMax • Plano, TX

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

CarMax is seeking a Senior Engineer Cloud to join their Operations team. This role focuses on researching and discovering new opportunities to ensure the strong foundation of digital products that provide a seamless customer experience. The engineer will iterate and evolve the cloud platform and applications used to manage it, developing tools and technologies through experimentation. The position impacts the reliability and resilience of applications by utilizing cloud concepts and technologies. The engineer will collaborate with other engineers to contribute to CarMax's strategy of building and delivering an exceptional customer experience.

The purpose of the role is to develop and iterate on innovative solutions to problems with a passion for technology. Working collaboratively and creatively within the cloud team, the engineer will partner with product and technology teams to contribute to patterns, guidance, and design for building and deploying cloud infrastructure to support customer-facing applications. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, self-learner, and thrives on the edge of their understanding, possessing strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, a passion for customer service, and the technical understanding of how the cloud platform contributes to application development success.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related Technology field or equivalent experience and 5+ years of work experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related Technology field or equivalent experience and 3+ years of work experience
• 4+ years of working in and building Infrastructure within a cloud platform - Azure (preferred), AWS, Google (with relatable experience)
• 2+ years scripting or coding experience with one or more languages including Powershell, Python, and/or Bash.
• Technical experience in infrastructure, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization and access control
• 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
• Demonstratable experience with IaC such as Bicep (preferred), Terraform, or analogs
• Demonstratable experience with software development preferably with one or more languages, such as PowerShell, Python, C#.
• Familiarity with agentic software development methods and tools such as Github CoPilot or Opencode.
• Demonstrable experience building and deploying resilient cloud solutions
• Demonstrable experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Team City or Azure DevOps
• Demonstrable experience supporting Windows or Linux OS
• Strong attention to detail, problem investigation and diagnostic skills
• Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role.

Nice To Haves

• Azure (preferred)
• Bicep (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Work with fellow associates to 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.
• Market new ideas internally and evolve them according to feedback and critique within an agile environment.
• Consult with internal customer and continually evolve the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.
• Stay on top of industry trends and best practices to continuously improve what we do and ensure our customer experience is the best it can be.
• Contribute to the patterns, guidance and design for building and deploying cloud infrastructure to support our customer facing applications.
• Mentor team in platform management and reusable patterns.

Benefits

• Paid sick time
• Vacation time
• Holiday time
• Floating holiday
• Holiday Premium Pay
• Paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior