DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives including defining project objectives, developing project schedules, preparing cost estimates, allocating/forecasting resources, and ensuring timely delivery under the direction of the Manager/Product Manager.
• Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining them for readability, maintainability, and efficiency.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting in scripts with multiple integration points.
• Led or participate in code reviews to improve overall script quality and start to see constructive feedback.
• Write clean, reusable, and high-quality IaC to solve novel or complex problems and lead advanced IaC reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and providing guidance during the merge review process.
• Design patterns, practices, and platforms that enable developers to integrate and deliver software components efficiently.
• Build and improve the CI/CD process, ensuring a fully functional software ecosystem.
• Independently manage virtual servers, containers, and orchestration platforms.
• Identify and develop local and cross team/org automation capabilities for products that impact key business SLAs and KPIs.
• Implement security measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality across pipelines.
• Lead the advanced troubleshooting and resolution of complex or novel system issues, including analyzing logs, performance data, and system behavior.
• Define and enforce consistent branching strategies to facilitate parallel development, code isolation, and seamless integration across teams.
• Regularly review and analyze system performance metrics, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve speed and responsiveness.
• Handle multi-region or multi-cloud network management, including zero trust networks and virtual private networks.
• Absorb and perform canary deployments.
• Perform chaos engineering with networking to test resilience.
• Develop and implement strategies for network redundancy and disaster recovery.
• Ensure that network infrastructure can withstand and recover from failures/disasters with minimal impact.
• Lead and facilitate technical discussions, providing insights and recommendations based on DevOps principles.
• Coach more junior DevOps Engineers through targeted feedback and guidance to improve technical skills, overcome challenges, and achieve specific goals.
• Serve in an on-call rotation that includes non-business hours to support production systems used by millions of automotive customers.

  Requirements

  • 3+ years of production experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer.
  • DevOps expertise to efficiently provide valuable insights and solve challenging problems.
  • Expertise in Terraform to create, modify, and manage infrastructure configurations or IaC templates.
  • Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) to build, package, and deploy optimized container images.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Experience in cloud architecture and design patterns to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures and apply best practices for cloud deployments.
  • Expertise with a scripting language to develop custom tools and scripts for DevOps workflows or integrate with APIs.
  • Expertise in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts.
  • Versed in InfoSec policies and procedures to adhere to security standards/regulations and identify gaps in security architecture.
  • Experience in monitoring and analytics platforms (like Datadog) to set up monitors, alerts, and diagnostic tools for proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across distributed systems.
  • Understanding of cloud billing and cost management tools to recognize total costs.
  • Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods.
  • Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills.
  • Organized and detail-oriented.
  • Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders.
  • Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Values diversity and differences amongst individuals in interactions.

  Qualifications

  • Expertise in Terraform to create, modify, and manage infrastructure configurations or IaC templates.
  • Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) to build, package, and deploy optimized container images.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Experience in cloud architecture and design patterns to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures and apply best practices for cloud deployments.
  • Expertise with a scripting language to develop custom tools and scripts for DevOps workflows or integrate with APIs.
  • Expertise in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts.
  • Versed in InfoSec policies and procedures to adhere to security standards/regulations and identify gaps in security architecture.
  • Experience in monitoring and analytics platforms (like Datadog) to set up monitors, alerts, and diagnostic tools for proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across distributed systems.
  • Understanding of cloud billing and cost management tools to recognize total costs.
  • Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods.
  • Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills.
  • Organized and detail-oriented.
  • Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders.
  • Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Values diversity and differences amongst individuals in interactions.

  Skills

  • Terraform
  • Containerization Technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
  • Cloud Platforms (AWS and Azure)
  • Cloud Architecture and Design Patterns
  • Scripting Languages
  • Version Control Systems
  • InfoSec Policies and Procedures
  • Monitoring and Analytics Platforms (like Datadog)
  • Cloud Billing and Cost Management Tools
  • New Technologies, Programming Practices, Patterns, and Methods
  • Problem-Solving, Troubleshooting, and Decision-Making Skills
  • Organizational and Detail-Oriented Skills
  • Collaboration and Relationship Building
  • Communication Skills
  • Diversity and Inclusion Values

  Benefits

  • 401(k)
  • Dental Insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance

  Pay

  The salary will be determined based on several factors, including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

  Schedule

  N/A