Technical Fellow - Platform Engineering

At FedEx, the Platform Engineering team manages public cloud landing zones for PaaS (based on Azure Kubernetes Service), IaaS, and Data Analytics. As a FedEx Technical Fellow, you will play an important role in designing, building, automating, and deploying scalable and secure public cloud infrastructure.

Our product is the FedEx Cloud Platform. Our goal is to architect and deploy an end-to-end global FedEx Cloud Platform, empowering developers with ideal tooling, streamlined processes, and innovative accelerators to achieve rapid value delivery in the Azure public cloud.

Providing the benefits of a globally distributed yet simplified cloud environment, this platform enables an optimal developer experience and a seamless path to production while supporting secure on-demand releases with observability, reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance.

Key responsibilities:

• Set the technical vision and roadmap for cloud platform evolution, ensuring alignment with FedEx enterprise architecture and business priorities.
• Influence cloud adoption strategy, guiding key decisions on platform architecture, tooling, and vendor choices across public cloud providers (Azure, GCP, OCI).
• Drive platform governance, including defining guardrails, compliance standards, and cost optimization strategies in collaboration with Security, Architecture, and Finance teams.
• Serve as a cloud subject matter expert and trusted advisor to executives, engineering leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Champion platform standardization and modernization, advocating for the use of internal frameworks, infrastructure-as-code practices, and self-service models.
• Mentor and upskill senior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical depth across the organization.
• Evaluate emerging cloud-native technologies, assessing their maturity, feasibility, and alignment with business needs.
• Prototype new capabilities, test proofs of concept, and transition successful innovations into production-ready services.
• Engage with enterprise security, networking, data, and operations teams to ensure platform design aligns with enterprise policies and SLA requirements.
• Act as the senior strategic leader driving cloud-native infrastructure and technical innovation.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, including network, storage, operating systems, virtualisation, and containerisation.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or OCI.
• Experience managing cloud-based Kubernetes clusters.
• Extensive knowledge of container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other distributed Linux systems.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Bash, JavaScript, Java, NodeJS, Go, Spring Boot, and TypeScript.
• Strong experience in declarative infrastructure-as-code scripting, preferably Terraform.
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, with an appreciation of and focus on customer needs.
• Experience working in cross-functional platform teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to explain cloud concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Previous experience with database technologies such as Azure Postgres, SQL, MongoDB, Azure Cosmos, Cassandra, and DataStax.
• Ability to develop initiatives, proposals, and business cases within area of expertise, act as a subject matter expert, and share knowledge with peers and management.

What we offer:

• FedEx offers employees a competitive benefits and reward package, including a wide array of formal training and on-the-job learning opportunities.

Analytical Skills; Influencing & Persuasion Skills; Leadership Skills; Judgement & Decision Making Skills; Presentation Skills;