What You'll Do:
SRE Best Practices & System Health Management
- Design and implement resilience initiatives: redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, data protection.
- Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform); manage 50+ AWS accounts with infrastructure patterns.
- Own system health: proactively maintain application performance, minimize downtime, ensure consistent user experience.
- Evolve team's SRE standards and practices.
Application Monitoring & Observability
- Build observability into systems: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alert design.
- Improve monitoring frameworks; enable faster incident detection and resolution.
- Design dashboards and alerts that help teams understand system behavior.
- Partner with application teams on service instrumentation.
AWS Cost Optimization
- Drive significant reductions in cloud spend through architectural improvements and resource utilization.
- Review infrastructure for efficiency; identify and eliminate waste.
- Balance cost, performance, and reliability in design decisions.
Software Development & Architecture
- Build production systems, APIs, internal tools, and automation with clean, well-tested code.
- Design for maintainability, operational simplicity, and reliability.
- Participate in code review and technical design discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers on code quality and architectural thinking.
Operations & Incident Response
- Participate in on-call rotations; debug and resolve production incidents.
- Conduct postmortem analysis; drive systemic improvements.
- Develop operational procedures and runbooks.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- AWS hands-on: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena.
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; able to troubleshoot complex systems using logs, metrics, and architectural knowledge.
- System design thinking: can architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 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 Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field.
Highly Valued:
- Experience with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Incident response experience; familiar with postmortem practices.
- Interest in or hands-on experience with SRE concepts (SLOs, resilience, failure modes).
- Cost optimization mindset; has identified and eliminated cloud waste.
- Windows and Linux system troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
USD 121,800.00 - 203,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $121,800.00 - $203,000.00. 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, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
Skills Required
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena).
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; troubleshoot complex systems using logs and metrics.
- System design thinking; architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline (or equivalent combinations of education and experience as described).
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
For well over a century, Cox Enterprises has been shaping the future with daring ideas and values-driven thinking. Since our founding in 1898, our relentless spirit of innovation has driven us to disrupt industries and enhance the quality of life in the communities we serve. Through our major divisions — Cox Communications, Cox Automotive and Cox Farms — our people have countless opportunities to grow and make an impact in the communications and automotive industries, as well as in new ventures in agriculture, cleantech, digital media and more. As a privately-held, family-owned business, we know that people are our most valuable asset. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment with flexible career growth, amazing benefits and work-life balance at the forefront. Our mission, our ways of working and our commitment to people are what make our workplace culture remarkably flexible and resilient. Join us to build a better future and make your mark.
Why Work With Us
At our core, Cox is a technology company that values human relationships. We know people feel most empowered when their work has meaning, when they feel respected and have opportunities to grow. “Career satisfaction” is not enough at Cox — we’re here to help you find balance, live well and achieve your career goals even as they change over time.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Every person has different working styles and preferences — and we aim to empower teams to work where they are most comfortable. Some roles require in-person work, but for those that can be performed remotely, we offer flexibility.
