Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Software Engineer

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

No

Work Shift

Day

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.

Job Description

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 solutionExperience working with and defining SLOs, error budgets, etc. Have innate curiosity about how things workDesign and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery & performanceDesign and assist in the setup and maintenance of application monitoring and alertingEngage with engineering teams to ensure best practices are implementedImprove 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 TerraformMinimum 1 year of experience with Amazon AWS technologies especially: ECS and LambdaMinimum 1 year of experience with monitoring/observability tools such as: New Relic, Splunk, PagerDutyExperience 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 scaleExperience with Database Server infrastructure (RDS, MySQL, Postgres, etc).NET core development experienceGitHub ActionsExperience with Github, docker, and Linux adminstration experience 

Drug Testing

To be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.

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 Us

Through groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells – or simply uses – cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. 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. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.