DevOps Engineer

Toyota Connected North America•Plano, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Toyota Connected Labs team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to create, maintain, support, and improve complex cloud operations for cutting edge microservice based platforms. On this team you will solve complex problems and work alongside talented DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, Agile Delivery Leads, and Technical Product Managers who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience services. We love people who think big and like to get their hands dirty to help us build exciting initiatives.

Requirements

3+ years of production experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer
DevOps expertise to efficiently provide valuable insights and solve challenging problems
Expertise in Terraform to create, modify, and manage infrastructure configurations or IaC templates
Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) to build, package, and deploy optimized container images
Knowledge in AWS cloud platform to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout product lifecycle
Experience in cloud architecture and design patterns to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures and apply best practices for cloud deployments
Expertise with a scripting language to develop custom tools and scripts for DevOps workflows or integrate with APIs
Experience in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts
Versed within InfoSec policies and procedures to adhere to security standards/regulations and identify gaps in security architecture
Experience in monitoring and analytics platforms (like Datadog) to set up monitors, alerts, and diagnostic tools for proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across distributed systems
Understanding of cloud billing and cost management tools to recognize total costs
Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods
Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision making skills
Demonstrates strong organizational skills and attention to detail
Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders
Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Excited about this opportunity, but don't meet 100% of the qualifications? We’d still love for you to apply!

Responsibilities

Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining for readability, maintainability, and efficiency.
Perform advanced troubleshooting in scripts with multiple integration points.
Lead or participate in code reviews to improve overall script quality starting to see constructive feedback.
Write clean, reusable, and high-quality IaC to solve novel or complex problems and lead advanced IaC reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and providing guidance during the merge review process.
Design patterns, practices, and platforms that enable developers to integrate and deliver software components efficiently.
Build and improve the CI/CD process, ensuring a fully functional software ecosystem.
Independently manage virtual servers, containers, and orchestration platforms.
Identify and develop local and cross team / org automation capabilities for products that impact key business SLAs and KPIs.
Implement security measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality across pipelines.
Lead the advanced troubleshooting and resolution of complex or novel system issues, including analyzing logs, performance data, and system behavior.
Define and enforce consistent branching strategies to facilitate parallel development, code isolation, and seamless integration across team(s).
Regularly review and analyze system performance metrics, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve speed and responsiveness.
Handle multi region or multi cloud network management, including zero trust networks and virtual private networks.
Assist in canary deployments.
Perform chaos engineering with networking to test resilience.
Develop and implement strategies for network redundancy and disaster recovery.
Ensure that network infrastructure can withstand and recover from failures/disasters with minimal impact.
Lead and facilitate technical discussions, providing insights and recommendations based on DevOps principles.
Coach more junior DevOps Engineers through targeted feedback and guidance to improve technical skills, overcome challenges, and achieve specific goals.
Serve in an on-call rotation that includes non-business hours, to support production systems used by millions of vehicles