Company Background:
Genuine Parts Company founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading specialty distributor engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world, employing 60,000 people.
The GPC Global Technology Center in Krakow, established in 2022 by Genuine Parts Company is an innovative research and development facility supporting GPC’s digital transformation efforts.
The hub is focused on the development of advanced technologies and solutions that support GPC's operations and growth.
The GPC Global Technology Center team works on a wide range of projects assisting in areas such as e-commerce and data platforms, supply chain solutions, selling systems, and cyber security. This is home to a team of highly skilled IT engineers who are dedicated to driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge solutions for GPC.
Position Purpose:
As an SRE within our growing eCommerce organization, you will be the engineer our development teams count on for smooth builds, deployments, and day-to-day platform support. You will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, containerize services, and deploy them to Azure. Working alongside developers, you will support them with Docker, DNS, certificates, and traffic routing, and help keep our services reliable through our observability stack. In cooperation with the SRE lead and other engineers, you will independently own well-scoped automation and reliability work, while growing toward broader platform ownership over time.
Requirements:
2–3+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
Practical, hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) - able to build independently, not only run existing & writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
Confident with Git / GitHub workflows
Solid networking fundamentals - DNS, HTTP/HTTPS and status codes, TLS/SSL certificates, reverse proxies, firewalls, and traffic routing; able to debug
Hands-on with progressive delivery - Blue/Green deployments
Hands-on with observability - not just actively using logs, metrics, and traces to debug production issues but also building dashboards, alerts, thresholds; experience with New Relic is a strong plus
Scripting in Bash and/or Python
Works independently on well-scoped problems and knows when to escalate
Hands-on and pragmatic - solves the problem, not just closes the ticket
Good communicator - supports development teams directly, day to day
Proactive with an ownership mindset
Curious and open to learning new tools
Reliability mindset - thinks about what can break, and why, before it does
Reduces operational toil through automation, and documents operational tasks so they're repeatable and reliable
Nice to have: Azure ACA, APIM; Cloudflare; API versioning and feature flags (LaunchDarkly); secrets management / OIDC federation; e-commerce or high-traffic environments
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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
Skills Required
- 2-3+ years of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
- Hands-on experience independently building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
- Experience writing and optimizing Dockerfiles
- Confident with Git and GitHub workflows
- Solid networking fundamentals, including DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, status codes, TLS/SSL certificates, reverse proxies, firewalls, and traffic routing
- Hands-on experience with blue/green deployments
- Hands-on observability experience with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, and thresholds
- Experience with New Relic
- Scripting experience in Bash and/or Python
- Ability to work independently on well-scoped problems and escalate appropriately
- Pragmatic, hands-on problem-solving approach
- Strong communication skills and ability to support development teams directly
- Proactive ownership mindset
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new tools
- Reliability mindset focused on anticipating failures
- Ability to reduce operational toil through automation and document repeatable operational tasks
- Experience with Azure ACA and APIM
- Experience with Cloudflare
- Experience with API versioning and feature flags such as LaunchDarkly
- Experience with secrets management and OIDC federation
- Experience in e-commerce or high-traffic environments
Genuine Parts Company Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Genuine Parts Company and has not been reviewed or approved by Genuine Parts Company.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with company match and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, with profit sharing and pension plans also mentioned. These elements indicate strong long-term financial support alongside ownership opportunities.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits encompass medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA and FSA options plus income-protection coverages like life, AD&D, and disability. This breadth suggests a robust core health and protection offering.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave are provided in addition to short‑term disability, and an Employee Assistance Program supports families with counseling and life tools. These programs reinforce family support alongside standard PTO.
Genuine Parts Company Insights
What We Do
Genuine Parts Company (GPC), founded in 1928, is a global service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. We serve hundreds of thousands of customers from a network of more than 10,000 locations in 14 countries and have approximately 50,000 employees.
