Devops Engineer

Hybrid/Remote Requirement: Hybrid (3 days/week in Plano, TX)

Initial Term of Engagement: 6 months (open-ended Contract)

Interview Process: 

  Round 1 - 30min Virtual

  Round 2 - 90mins Onsite (Interview + Coding Challenge)

Our team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to create, maintain, support, and improve complex cloud operations for cutting edge microservice based platforms. On this team you will solve complex problems and work alongside talented DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, Agile Delivery Leads, and Technical Product Managers who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience services. We love people who think big and like to get their hands dirty to help us build exciting initiatives.

Responsibilities:

·       Lead initiatives including defining project objectives, developing project schedules, preparing cost estimates, allocating/forecasting resources, and ensuring timely delivery under direction of Manager/Product Manager.

·       Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining for readability, maintainability, and efficiency.

·       Perform advanced troubleshooting in scripts with multiple integration points.

·       Lead or participate in code reviews to improve overall script quality starting 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 team(s).

·       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.

·       Assist in 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 vehicles

Required Qualifications:

·       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 in cloud platforms (AWS and Azure) to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout 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 within 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, 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