Cloud Engineer

Employees in this job function will support the design, development, testing, and deployment of the Telemetry & Observability Platform (TOP). TOP is an enterprise platform that integrates vehicle telemetry, diagnostic information, engineering artifacts, manufacturing evidence, service data, and software lifecycle signals to provide actionable diagnostic and software-health insights. This role will work within a cross-functional Agile team to build cloud-native services, data integrations, user-facing capabilities, and platform observability. The developer will receive technical direction from senior engineers and architects while progressively taking ownership of well-defined platform components and features. Employees in this job function are responsible for designing, building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure and managed services to achieve scalability, flexibility and cost efficiencies for private and public cloud systems that support the business. They are focused on created opinionated cloud environments and systems like Storage as a service, Infrastructure as a service etc. that form building blocks used by other enterprise and product teams.

Skills Required:

• AWS, GCP, API, REST APIs, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, AIPGEE, Agile Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle, GitHub, Spring Boot
• AWS - Deploy or support basic applications using AWS services such as S3, EC2 or RDS
• GCP - Use GCP 2.0 or GCP 3.0 cloud services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery to run an application or work with data.
• API - Understand how an application communicates with another system through requests/responses and be capable of developing API endpoints for applications as well as invoking them.
• REST APIs - Create or use HTTP endpoints (for eg. Using GET requests or creating a record with a POST request)
• Java - Write and maintain Java code for application features, business logic, and error handling.
• JavaScript - Write basic scripts or application functionality, such as validating form input or updating a webpage/UI.
• SQL - Write queries to retrieve, insert, update, and summarize data in a relational database.
• Kubernetes - Deploy and manage containerized apps such as checking pod status or updating a deployment.
• Docker - Build and run a container for an application, so it behaves consistently across dev and test environments.
• APIGEE - Use Apigee to publish and manage APIs, configure an API proxy, setup authentication, apply policies such as rate limits and monitor API traffic.
• Agile Software Development - Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, and deliver work in small increments.
• Software Development Lifecycle - Understand the stages of software delivery, from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• GitHub - Use GitHub to access a repository, create a branch, commit changes, open a pull request, and respond to review feedback.
• Spring Boot - Build or support a basic Java application or REST service using Spring Boot., * Design, develop, test, and maintain TOP platform components under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Build and integrate REST APIs, backend services, data-processing functions, and event-driven workflows.
• Develop integrations with approved vehicle, service, engineering, manufacturing, and software-factory data sources.
• Support the ingestion, normalization, validation, storage, and retrieval of telemetry and diagnostic information.
• Contribute to web-based interfaces and dashboards used to present diagnostic, operational, AI-performance, and platform-health information.
• Implement logging, metrics, distributed tracing, error handling, and health checks for platform services.
• Write unit, integration, API, and automated regression tests.
• Participate in code reviews and address feedback related to maintainability, performance, security, and coding standards.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, configuration management, and cloud environment troubleshooting.
• Assist with the integration of AI services through governed APIs and standardized interface contracts.
• Implement role-based access controls and follow enterprise security, privacy, data-retention, and auditability requirements.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including API specifications, deployment instructions, support procedures, and design notes.
• Participate in backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, demonstrations, and retrospectives.
• Investigate defects and operational issues using logs, metrics, traces, and other platform evidence.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and blockers and communicate them promptly to the delivery team.

• Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems - Have an understanding of agentic AI workflows, data pipeline build and processing, AI evaluation strategies using RAGAS, understanding of RAG and vectorization, as well as LLM orchestration., * Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Approximately 2-5 years of software development experience.
• Programming experience in one or more relevant languages, such as: Python Java JavaScript or TypeScript Experience developing or consuming REST APIs and working with structured data formats such as JSON.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming, software design principles, and common application architecture patterns.
• Experience with relational databases, SQL, and basic data modeling.
• Experience using Git-based source control and participating in peer code reviews.
• Familiarity with automated unit and integration testing.
• Basic understanding of cloud computing, containerization, and CI/CD practices. Ability to diagnose software issues using application logs and debugging tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work collaboratively with product owners, architects, engineers, data specialists, testers, and operations teams.

Experience Preferred: Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform services such as Google Kubernetes Engine, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, or Cloud SQL.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar cloud-native technologies. Experience developing frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and data pipelines.
• Experience implementing platform observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry or comparable observability standards and tooling.
• Experience with API specifications and tools such as OpenAPI or Swagger.
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, role-based access control, and secure coding practices.
• Experience integrating AI or machine-learning services through APIs.
• Familiarity with prompt management, AI response validation, confidence scoring, or human-feedback capture.
• Experience working with telemetry, automotive diagnostics, connected-vehicle data, manufacturing information, or engineering lifecycle systems.
• General knowledge of diagnostic concepts such as DTCs, CAN, UDS, or DoIP is beneficial but not required.
• Experience working in an Agile or Scrum delivery model.

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Education Preferred:

• Master’s Degree

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We’ve differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match