Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cox Automotive is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Manheim Logistics SRE team . The SRE team is tasked with designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Manheim Logistics' 15+ development teams. The team has currently standardized on a Docker-based infrastructure solution and is adding functionality to support new development team requests and architectural patterns (such as Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, etc). The SRE team has a strong focus on IaC with Terraform and best practices such as least privilege access, proactive monitoring and alerting, etc. This role will work directly with a release train and help with IaC and SRE activites such as improving monitoring/alerting, defining an error budget, assisting with DevSecOps, etc.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cox Automotive you will:

• Strong automation experience- testing, deploying, monitoring, etc.
• Take complex problems and come up with a technically reasonable solution
• Experience working with and defining SLOs, error budgets, etc.
• Have innate curiosity about how things work
• Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery & performance
• Design and assist in the setup and maintenance of application monitoring and alerting
• Engage with engineering teams to ensure best practices are implemented
• Improve predictability and reliability of software releases, workflows, and operating software.
• Reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by helping troubleshoot, monitor, alert, and automating recovery.
• Solid written communication, problem solving, and process management skills

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and minimum 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a Master's degree and 2 years' experience; a P.h.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field.
• Minimum 4 years in software development and architecture/solutioning experience
• Minimum 2 years' experience with Terraform
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Amazon AWS technologies especially: ECS and Lambda
• Minimum 1 year of experience with monitoring/observability tools such as: New Relic , Splunk, PagerDuty
• Experience with agile development, continuous integration and automated testing

Preferred Skills :

• Broad AWS platform skills including Cognito, WAF, Elasticache (Redis), Elasticsearch, SNS, SQS, S3, Systems Manager
• Experience automating Terraform at scale
• Experience with Database Server infrastructure (RDS, MySQL, Postgres, etc)
• .NET core development experience
• GitHub Actions
• Experience with Github, docker, and Linux adminstration experience

USD 97,100.00 - 161,800.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $97,100.00 - $161,800.00. 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.
Benefits:
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, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
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
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
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 .
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