Copart, Inc. a technology leader and the premier online vehicle auction platform globally, with over 200 facilities located across the world, Copart links vehicle sellers to more than 750,000 buyers in over 190 countries. We believe in providing an unmatched experience, every day and everywhere, driven by our people, processes, and technology.
This DevOps - Principal Engineer will be a critical member of Copart's growing DevOps team and will be responsible for Production Support and keeping our sites up and running. This will include automating deployments, configuration management and capacity management of Copart's production applications. This role will interact with all functions in Copart's technology team to build out operational capabilities to support secure, scalable, fault-tolerant and cloud-based web applications and architecture.
Essential Duties
• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot one or more company products
• Develop internal tools and processes to maintain stability and performance of our infrastructure
• Act as subject-matter expert for one or more company products
• Gather, analyze, and report important IT system data
• Provide feedback to developers regarding the status of various IT systems
• Develop and manage product-related IT procedures
• Research, review, analyze, troubleshoot, and document product-related IT systems
• Plan and successfully complete IT projects and goals
• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills including the ability to produce usable and maintainable documentation
• Strong work ethic, attention to detail, and drive to be successful; ability to work independently with minimal supervision or assistance
• Strong interpersonal, time management, project management, and conflict resolution skills
• Strong problem solving skills: innovation, collaboration, analysis, inductive reasoning
• Automate repetitive tasks
Requirements
• Very good knowledge and experience supporting secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, and cloud-based web applications and architecture
• Extensive production support experience in troubleshooting and problem solving issues to keep our applications/platforms resilient and highly available
• Good experience in writing custom applications/scripts to enhance support capabilities
• Good experience in automation of deployments, configuration management, capacity management and providing custom solutions based on our customer needs in an agile environment
• Proficient with standard IT concepts, practices, and procedures
• Intermediate programming and scripting knowledge
• Strong understanding of business processes and IT systems
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems
• Thorough understanding of Systems, TCP/IP networking and DNS concepts including setup/configuration of CDNs (Cloudflare, Akamai, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with web technologies and web/application servers like Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, Nginx, Redis, SOLR, Universal Messaging (Nirvana), WSO2 is a must
• Experience with Build Automation, CI/CD and DevOps Tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Nexus, Ansible, Puppet and StackStorm is a must
• Experience working and deploying applications in container technologies (Docker), Cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and Kubernetes platform is a plus
• Experience in monitoring applications performance and predicting degradation of service using APM Tools like AppDynamics, Instana, New Relic etc. and improve application performance to avoid interruptions to service
• Experience Handling escalations from the L1 and L2 teams to troubleshoot various infrastructure components that range from infrastructure issues to application-level issues
• Analyzing issues to find the Root Cause and providing the teams with the corrective and preventive actions
• Good experience in security hardening and security vulnerability management and patching
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At Copart, we are focused on harnessing the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. By embracing diverse perspectives, we open doors to innovation and unleash the full potential of our team. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels appreciated, included, and inspired to grow and contribute meaningfully.
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What We Do
Copart, a global online auto auction company headquartered in Dallas, Texas is a top-performing S&P 500 company, as noted by The Wall Street Journal. Copart is a global technology leader in the online vehicle auction industry that connects its buyers and sellers via its patented cutting-edge VB3 technology. With a passion for excellence, Copart has a great company culture and strong dedication to our employees.
Founded in 1982, Copart connects more than 750,000 buyers and sellers from over 200 locations around the world. With our innovative technology, we remarket salvage and clean title vehicles to dealers, dismantlers, rebuilders, exporters and end users through a multi-channel online internet platform. Copart’s diverse and extensive inventory features more than 175,000 vehicles available online every day, including early and late-model cars, classics, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, boats, jet-skis, snowmobiles and RVs.
Copart sells vehicles on behalf of insurance companies, banks, finance companies, fleet owners, car dealerships, cars sourced from the general public and others. Because we are a 100% online auto auction company, Copart Members can browse our incredible inventory, set their own price and get great deals on vehicles through their home computer, smartphone or other mobile device. Copart’s vehicles can range in condition from damaged vehicles that can be used as rebuild projects to like-new, used vehicles.
Copart is the parent company to a portfolio of auto service companies, including CashForCars.com, CrashedToys, and National Powersport Auctions (NPA). We currently operate in the United States (Copart.com), Canada (Copart.ca), the United Kingdom (Copart.co.uk), the Republic of Ireland (Copart.ie), Brazil (Copart.com.br), Germany (Copart.de), the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain (Copartmea.com), Spain (Copart.es), and Finland (copart.fi).
