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Yamaha Motor Finance Corp has an exciting opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer to join our Technology team! This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of cloud technology at Yamaha Motor Finance Corporation, U.S.A. (YMFUS) by designing, building, and securing a modern AWS-based platform that powers business-critical applications and enterprise initiatives.

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in our cloud modernization journey, partnering with Engineering, Security, and implementation partners to deliver a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platform. You'll work with industry-leading technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation while helping drive innovation, reliability, and operational excellence across the organization.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPC, EC2, EKS, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, RDS, IAM, S3, KMS, and Secrets Manager, following AWS Well-Architected best practices.
• Build, administer, and optimize Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) environments, including cluster management, networking, ingress controllers, autoscaling, namespaces, RBAC, storage, and workload optimization.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, creating reusable modules and standardized environment provisioning across Development, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar technologies to enable automated testing, deployment, release approvals, rollback capabilities, and deployment consistency.
• Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, least-privilege access controls, Secrets Manager, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, vulnerability remediation, and platform hardening in partnership with Information Security teams.
• Develop and maintain centralized monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and related technologies to improve platform reliability and operational visibility.
• Support production operations by troubleshooting infrastructure and platform issues, conducting root cause analyses, implementing preventative measures, and improving platform resilience.
• Collaborate with application development teams and implementation partners to support containerization, cloud-native application deployments, environment management, and modernization initiatives.
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, disaster recovery procedures, platform standards, and technical documentation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, cloud cost optimization efforts, capacity planning, performance tuning, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the execution of the organization's cloud strategy and help drive adoption of modern platform engineering and DevOps practices.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Five (5) or more years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Four (4) or more years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Three (3) or more years of hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
• Strong experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC architecture, load balancing, DNS, SSL/TLS, IAM, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing cloud security services, including IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, and vulnerability remediation processes.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting highly available production environments and implementing disaster recovery solutions.
• Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar languages.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
• A passion for technology, continuous learning, and building modern cloud platforms that enable business success.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or other relevant AWS certifications.
• Experience with cloud modernization, application migration, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of SRE, platform engineering, and DevSecOps best practices.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and underrepresented minorities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Yamaha, we understand that talent comes in various forms, as such we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

What's In It For You:

• 401(k) and Profit Sharing
• Fertility Benefits
• 37.5 hour workweek
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Wellness Program
• Short-Term Disability Coverage (for hourly roles)
• Long-Term Disability
• Student Debt Repayment Benefits
• Ability to borrow Yamaha Product

Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.