Cox Automotive Data Solutions (CADS), is currently looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for DevOps to join our team.

A perfect candidate is one that has a strong background in building scalable software solutions and enjoys automating tedious tasks, creating safety guards from mistakes being made, prefers simplifying problems instead of overcomplicating things, being proactive instead of reactive, mindfully accepting tech-debt, and, most importantly, working as a team. If this describes you, or you want to hear more, click the Apply button and we look forward to connecting.

Responsibilities:

• Product Development:
  • Work with Product Management to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in their day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions.
  • Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning.
  • Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems.
  • Build software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders.
  • Maintain healthy multi-region environments while being cost-conscious
  • Understand technical architecture and write software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards.
  • Perform trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary.
  • Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
  • Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight.
  • Live by Agile principles and collaborate with team members using Agile techniques including sandbox testing, code reviews, and retrospectives
  • Participate in team on-call rotation

• Operate as a DevOps SME:
  • Support the design, implementation and maintenance of a continuous integration environment.
  • Deploy and support automation systems and tooling in production.
  • Contribute to platform improvements dealing with automation, resilience, simplification and/or cost management and partner with delivery teams to implement them.
  • Serve as a trusted partner and provide technical leadership across all areas of build, release and implementation / operation.
  • Leverage knowledge and experience to contribute to customer facing activities such as technical briefings and customer response calls.
  • Ability to design and implement large scale infrastructure projects from end-to-end.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years experience. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience or 16 year's experience in a related field
• Working experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems, components and APIs
• Working experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support
• Working knowledge of software development best practices and design patterns
• Working experience in coding within multiple technology stacks
• Willing to learn new languages and tech stacks
• Working experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Working experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Working experience with Agile application development practices
• Proven ability to work with team members to deliver projects on deadlines
• Ability to multi-task and keep multiple threads in progress simultaneously
• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platform
• Ability to communicate within Engineering as well as with non-technical teams
• Proficiency in a modern coding language such as Python
• Working experience with cloud services such as AWS Glue, S3, EC2, Lambda, and Dynamo
• Working experience with source management such as GitHub, Bit Bucket, GitLab

Preferred Skills:

• Working experience with container services such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Working experience with build tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle
• Working experience with provisioning such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• Working experience with config management such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt
• Working experience with deploy artifacts such as Artifactory, Nexus
• Working experience with monitoring/instrumentation or observability tools such as New Relic, Nagios, Splunk, Elk

To be employed in this role, you'll need to clear a pre-employment background check and drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently consider a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

About Cox Automotive

At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!

About Cox

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