Cloud Automation Lead Developer

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The Role
We are seeking a cloud Automation Engineer focused on supporting cloud solutions and performance benchmarks for Mega Data centers and Cloud Service Providers for our AMD EPYC technologies.
The Person
This is an ideal role for a technical lead developer looking for their next step in one of the most impactful roles focused on cloud orchestration and automation framework.
As an Automation developer, you will apply your DevOps knowledge and software engineering capabilities into automating benchmark workloads across our cloud providers and Lab equipment. This is a highly rewarding position, where you’ll be able to see an immediate impact from your contributions.
Key Responsibilities

• Ability to drive hands-on proof of concepts to collect data and facts.
• Work closely with the technical teams to derive optimal solutions to our CSPs
• Technical SME representing AMD as an Automation technical expert.
• Embrace a culture of creativity, collaboration, innovation, and excellence while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization.
• Ability to translate highly technical concepts into actionable plans.
• Experience working across multiple locations and time zones.
• Exceptional communication skills to address multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop automation workflows from cloud benchmark deployment, metrics capture, and resource cleanup including full automation lifecycle across our CSPs via API driven orchestration.
• Work within an Agile best practices and test-driven development.
• Ensure processes and KPIs are validated and meets customer SLA expectations.
• Develop maintainable and extensible code in Python while providing interfaces for larger teams to integrate new benchmarks as well as metrics across cloud provider APIs and bare metal lab servers.

Preferred Qualificaitons

• Cloud Certification a plus

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of education, training, and expertise in related technical field as well as experience of 8-10 years’ experience in a development role.

Location:

• Santa Clara, CA

At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package. Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.
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