Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Lead Software Engineer

Management Level

Manager - Non People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

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.

Job Description

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.