Senior DevOps Engineer - Android Automotive

We are CARIAD, an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group. Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year. We’re looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world. Together with you, we’ll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility. Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it.

Role Summary

This is a DevOps Engineer Sr position in the Android Compatibility & Security team. This department is responsible for developing the Android Automotive OS Certification program (within Cariad) to ensure that the company’s goals around Android Compatibility and Security are met.

Role Responsibilities 

Build/DevOps activities:

• Ensure and negotiate efficient and well-defined interfaces & collaboration agreements with CARIAD and our partners involved in the development of our Android-based Infotainment Systems.
• Focus on continuously improving the DevOps tooling, software installers, and software delivery processes.
• Advocate a DevOps culture of automation, self-service, and engineering best practices to enable development teams.
• Own and maintain highly reliable environments and toolchains with clear communication and timeliness of any disruptions to internal stakeholders.
• Monitor and continuously improve the capacity of production environments infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix performance and scalability bottlenecks.
• Contribute to building a strong team of Build Infrastructure Engineers.
• Unify development pipeline, build process, testing and deployment strategies across diverse teams.

 Additional activities:

• Mentoring software engineers on best practices and patterns
• Leading new project proposals to stakeholders (domestic and international)
• Creation of technical specifications and documentation

Years of Experience

•  7+ years of software industry experience, including at least 5 years of focus on Software Build and Release/DevOps of Consumer Electronics or Automotive Infotainment.

Required Education

•  Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

Desired Education

•  Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field

Skills:

• Thoughtful Problem Solver & Communicator: Thinks analytically, critically & creatively and communicates with clarity, direction & purpose.

• Attentive Listener: Listens actively while withholding judgment and advice. Clarifies intentions & motivations to anticipate and address potential conflicts & avoid misunderstanding.
• Drives Diversity: Acts from a deep-rooted belief that we build better teams & products when we empower & learn from the broadest spectrum of humanity.
• Leads with Integrity: Speaks-up with compassion & empathy to firmly stand by our values, principles, rules & regulations.
• Thrives in Ambiguity:  Approaches challenges with an open and curious mindset and a strong bias towards action. Zooms out to systematically map out the situation and is comfortable making high impact decisions based on limited or conflicting information.
• Highly Accountable: Assumes personal responsibility for making and keeping realistic agreements. Openly owns mistakes and consequences. Demonstrates strong commitment and consideration for the larger interests of society, the environment, the company and the team.

Required Skills:

• Experience building Android Open Source Project (AOSP) from scratch
• Knowledge about the Android Framework, AOSP platform architecture, and related build systems
• Extensive understanding of source code version control systems like git, GitHib, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps server
• Experience of automation tools configuration and implementation of frameworks (CI / CD pipelines)
• Proficiency in writing scripts and automation using Python / J