Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS)

Primary Location: Bucharest, Romania (hybrid work arrangement)
Additional Work Locations: Czechia, Poland, Hungary (hybrid work arrangement)

Start something great today. Go Goodyear.

At Goodyear, we make life’s connections easier every day. People around the world count on us to get them where they need to go now and into the future.
But our relentless pursuit of forward motion doesn’t just keep the world moving. It shapes a workplace that celebrates our different talents, experiences, and cultures. It inspires us to continue developing our skills and encourages our career moves all while keeping us focused on building a better future for our associates, our business, and the planet.

Come discover the opportunities ahead with Team Goodyear!

Your Future Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our EMEA eCommerce community as Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, working side-by-side with a highly effective Digital Marketing team on development of modern technical solutions empowering our business, team, and personal success.
 
You will be joining our EMEA IT Customer Facing Team where you will have the opportunity to act as a subject matter expert, exercising and leveraging deep technical, consultative, and influencing skills to engage with internal & external business counterparts. Through your daily responsibilities you will make use and hone your ability to rapidly understand business technical needs, how it enables current and future IT technology initiatives, and deliver back an insightful and innovative cross-functional and cross-platform system solution that targets those needs.

As a Goodyear Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, you will proactively advise and contribute to the medium and long-term architecture planning in cooperation with the Technical Architecture team to support the IT Business Strategy. 

Your Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Have a complete ownership of the business and technology delivery including:
• Demand analysis and assessment of business processes and the system landscape
• Drafting, designing, planning, optimization of our E-Commerce system and the respective integration
• Design new or incrementally improve existing applications
• Coordination of technical implementation in eCommerce projects
• Identification of dependencies between system, infrastructure, and projects towards competing demands
• Strategic selection of new technologies according to the business architecture
• Actively provide transfer of knowledge on current / future technologies, as well as conducting cost/benefit analysis of tools through evaluation of future IT solutions to determine best-balanced and integrated solutions
• Review the state-of-the-art awareness of information technology strategies by attending technical sessions, extensive research, and developing a network of industry contacts
• Conduct demand and feasibility analysis and implement proof-of-concepts
• Hands on in implementing proposed solutions and be able to technically guide extended teams during development and deployment of solution.

To Join Our Team, it will require you having:

• Previous experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on AWS
• Deep understanding of AWS core services including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, RDS, and Lambda
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation tools
• Experience with API design/development
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them to technical specifications
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

What We Offer:

• Pay for Performance incentive plan.
• Recognize and reward success.
• Provide adequate health care: medical subscription & eyeglasses reimbursement.
• Protect our associates during unexpected moments in life: life insurance, employee assistance program, aid allowance.
• Support your personal plans through the Flexible benefits budget.  
• We truly believe in a healthy balance between your personal and professional life, through: 
• Flexible work schedule - specific to the activity /department.
• Hybrid work schedule
• Vacation: 25 days/year
• Additional days off for special events.
• Library Subscription through Bookster
• Easter and Christmas Allowance
• Referral bonus for new colleagues recommended by you.
• Discount price to purchase Goodyear tires.
• Discount offering for products and services through agreed partnership.
• We provide the resources to continue developing your abilities and career to realize your full potential: whether it’s learning from assignments, exposure to new experiences or coaching and mentoring.
• Fun and CSR team is delegated to coordinate team events or community support initiatives. 

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 71,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer.