Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Engineering / Product Development

Lead Software Engineer

Manager - Non People LeaderHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Yes, 5% of the time

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $131,600.00 - $219,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will lead efforts to enhance site-reliability engineering practices across agile teams, ensuring the successful delivery of quality software products.

In this role you will:

• Lead the implementation of IaC and automation with unit testing, quality gates, AppSec tooling, automated functional testing, and performance testing

• Develop and maintain observability practices, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems

• Create and manage runbooks, gamedays, postmortems, and incident response workflows

 

Your Role

• Engage with cross-functional teams that design, develop and implement enterprise scalable cloud-based solutions to drive improvement in SRE/DevOps best practices and tooling.

• Play a role in establishing best practices, supporting communities of practice, and promoting adoption within the engineering teams.

• Be an excellent team member, assisting other team members in achieving the teams sprint goals.

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 18 years’ experience in a related field.

• Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.

• Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in CI/CD tooling and capabilities.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementing quality frameworks with quality gates within a CI/CD framework.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in AWS.

• Minimum 5 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, either Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in observability platforms such as NewRelic, Cloudwatch, Grafana, DataDog.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in one of the following programming languages: C#, Java, Python.

• Minimum 3 years of experience working in AppSec tools such as Veracode, CloudSploit, Data Theorem.

 

 

What We Look For:

• In-depth experience and understanding of complex AWS environments.

• Experience in cloud-native containerized applications, with a focus on microservice architectures and an API first development methodology.

• Experience in cloud pub/sub event driven architecture patterns.

• Experience in cloud application security and governance.

• Experience in continuous integration and delivery.

• Experience in modern object-oriented programming languages.

• High energy, confident, ambitious and self-motivated individual.

• End-to-end ownership of product delivery and operational support.

• Must be an effective communicator and able to communicate with all levels of the organization.

• Willingness to mentor Software Engineers.

 

Location

This position is based in Austin, Texas or Exton, Pennsylvania and requires two full on-site days per week. Relocation assistance will not be provided.

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer 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.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.