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SalaryAuto req ID: 23162
Title: Lead IT Design, Cloud Engineering - Remote
Job Function: Digital
Location: Remote
Company: Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
At Harley-Davidson, we are building more than machines. It’s our passion and commitment to continue the evolution of this storied brand, and heighten the desirability of the Harley-Davidson experience. To keep building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution, and emotion we need the best and brightest talent. We stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul. Are you ready to join us?
We maximize employee flexibility and well-being through a virtual mindset that supports our highly distributed, global workforce. We take an outcome-focused, people-centered approach to winning, including welcoming the best talent - wherever they may be.
This remote role is not tightly linked to a physical location and provides flexibility in where, when and how you accomplish your work. Remote employees are expected to have a dedicated, quiet and distraction-free work space and an internet connection that’s sufficient for completing their job remotely.
Job Summary
The Lead IT Design, Cloud Engineering will have shared responsibilities to plan, design, build and maintain Harley Davidson’s Cloud Platforms utilizing automation and DevOps methodologies to deliver desired business values. The ideal candidate is experienced in MS Azure Cloud technologies or similar with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications, and ability to customize them.
The Lead IT Design, Cloud Engineering will also work with the team to proactively ensure the repeatability, stability, resilience, and scale of all cloud services across the organization and ensure the cloud services are available, cost optimized and fit for purpose early in the development lifecycle.
- Individual contributor role with cross functional responsibilities.
- Architecture, design, and delivery of technology solutions within one or more technical disciplines in a manner that returns quantified business value.
- Leading the design, configuration, and implementation of technical solution governance across diverse global functional business areas.
- Delivers efficient solution designs aligning with system strategies, capabilities, and technologies, addressing both current and future business needs.
- Ensure seamless end-to-end integration of solutions, conduct essential integration testing, and validate technology adherence to Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators.
Job Responsibilities
- Build, improve, and reimagine platform capabilities and services.
- Address technical needs: automation/self-service, security regarding identity and access, data protection, CICD security, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, scalability, self-healing, performance management and cost optimization.
- Define security requirements and ensure compliance through the design of new solutions or modifications to existing ones.
- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines.
- Lead and support cloud cost optimization and governance.
- Evaluate potential vendors and products to determine which provide the best fit for the organization’s needs.
- Create and publish critical documentation for new systems and updating documentation for existing systems as needed.
- Efficiently hand over implemented solutions to the Operations team and provide training to empower employees in utilizing modern technology platforms or systems.
- Providing technical support for complex problems or issues that arise with existing applications or systems.
- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams.
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful designs.
- Verify cloud service model meets appropriate compliance/governance requirements.
Education Requirements
Education Specifications
- HS Diploma or GED Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology is Preferred
Experience Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in automation, configuration management and deployment of enterprise scale infrastructures.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) or other languages such as ARM & Bicep
- Experience using source control with GitHub & building / maintaining GitHub actions pipelines.
- Sound understanding of Identity & Access Management.
- MS Windows/Linux setup, configuration, patching and upgrades.
- Database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics.
- Use of APIs to design RESTful services, and integrate them with existing data providers, using JSON or XML.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL technologies.
- Knowledge/working experience around configuration and management of PaaS and Kubernetes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Azure Certifications – Azure Administrator AZ-104, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Databases, DevOps, Network, Security Engineer are preferred. Other Cloud technologies, AVD Certifications are plus.
- Knowledge of Windows and Unix administration, Network and Internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks.
- Experience with open-source technology, software development and system engineering.
- Background in X86 (Linux, Windows) and IBM Virtualization platforms a plus.
Harley-Davidson is an equal opportunity employer that continues to build a culture of inclusion, belonging and equity through our commitment to attracting and retaining diverse talent from all backgrounds, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in fairness and providing a level playing field for all. We foster a culture that thrives on diverse perspectives and contributions to ignite the creativity and innovation to fuel our business and enhance the employee and customer experience.
The pay range shown represents the national average pay range for this role. Your pay may be more or less than the stated range and is dependent on your geographic location and level of experience.
We offer an inclusive compensation package for all full-time salaried employees including, but not limited to, annual bonus programs, health insurance benefits, a 401k program, onsite fitness centers and employee stores, employee discounts on products and accessories, and more. Learn more about Harley-Davidson here.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.
Direct Reports: Yes
Travel Required: 0 - 10%
Pay Range: $112,000- 173,600
Visa Sponsorship: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Relocation: This position is not eligible for relocation assistance
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