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Cloud Engineer-Azure - Global Industrial
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Location Birmingham, Alabama
- Category Technology
- Job ID R26_0000030913
- Date posted 10/01/2026
- Brand Motion Industries (MOT)
- Status Full time
- Job Type Hybrid
SUMMARY:
Under limited supervision, the Cloud Engineer III works with Motion's infrastructure, digital, and application teams to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. This role acts as a mentor to other Cloud Engineers and provides technical leadership and design for cloud-related projects. This role deploys and debugs cloud stacks, educates teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensures the security of the cloud infrastructure and applications. The Cloud Engineer III identifies the most optimal cloud-based solutions and has in-depth experience with data management and data access from cloud-based solutions. This role guides application teams and ensures they are utilizing cloud services to their advantage with an emphasis on automation, performance, high availability, backup/restoration, and monitoring/logging.
JOB DUTIES
- Provides support in the management and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure services for clients.
- Serves as the interface between the client and the system and offers support to clients.
- Develops technologies to accelerate the cloud journey from legacy monolithic applications.
- Assists application and product teams to implement recommended or requested cloud services and resources.
- Provides technical leadership and design for cloud related projects.
- Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
- Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis, and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
- Acts as a mentor to lower level Cloud Engineers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to eight (8) years of related experience or an equivalent combination.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES
- Experienced in technologies such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, VMWare Cloud Administration, and Azure.
- Experienced in independently coding and performing technical tasks with no supervision.
- Strong foundation in problem solving skills and resolving more complex issues.
- Ability to communicate effectively with project managers, business analysts and testers.
- Comprehensive experience with cloud architecture methodologies including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
- Hands on experience with GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and other similar toolsets within GCP.
- Comprehensive experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience with Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
- Experience with VMware virtualization technology.
- Scripting (Linux shell, PowerShell).
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS: None required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: No Supervisory Responsibility
BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: No
COMPANY INFORMATION:
Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage,
401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.
DISCLAIMER:
This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive
inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time
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