Lead, DevOps Engineer

Toyota•Plano, TX

About The Position

Toyota Financial Services' DevOps Department is seeking a Lead, DevOps Engineer to operate on the individual-contributor track. This is a senior technical leadership role for an engineer who drives outcomes through deep technical expertise, cross-team influence, and hands-on execution rather than through people management. The Lead, DevOps Engineer sets technical direction for cloud-native platforms, defines DevOps and automation standards across multiple teams, and is accountable for the reliability, scalability, security, and delivery velocity of critical technology products. This individual acts as a force multiplier — elevating the capabilities of engineers across the department while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture, automation, and platform engineering.

Requirements

Technical Strategy & Architecture
Platform Engineering at Scale
Standards & Governance
Reliability & Resilience
CI/CD & Delivery Excellence
Innovation & Technical Evaluation
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Cross-Functional Partnership
Cost & Efficiency Optimization
Recruiting & Organizational Growth

Nice To Haves

Experience defining and implementing DevSecOps programs that embed security into delivery workflows at scale.
Experience establishing SRE practices, including SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets, and incident-management maturity.
Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, and platform observability tooling.
Experience influencing enterprise technical strategy, architecture review boards, or technical governance forums.
Relevant professional certifications (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP Professional Architect, CKA/CKAD).
Experience in a regulated industry such as financial services.
Experience with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and/or SRE operations.

Responsibilities

Design and implement automation solutions for platform management.
Lead the team and help junior engineers excel at DevOps and automation best practices.
Automate infrastructure and platform management for cloud-native applications to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Strengthen engineering and operations standards by advancing coding practices, development workflows, and department best practices.
Pilot emerging technologies and innovative approaches that help drive toward highly available, resilient applications.
Automate mundane tasks to achieve engineering excellence.
Support CI/CD excellence by improving deployment workflows, automation, and release reliability.
Partner with team members to promote Agile practices, share knowledge, and contribute to a strong, collaborative engineering culture.
Contribute to team growth through recruiting efforts, mentorship, and technical development support.
Help shape modern DevOps capabilities across the team by bringing a continuous-improvement mindset to day-to-day work.
Define and own the technical vision, architecture, and multi-year roadmap for cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation across the department.
Design, build, and evolve self-service platforms and automation frameworks that improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability for multiple engineering teams.
Establish and enforce engineering, operations, and DevSecOps standards, including coding practices, development workflows, and platform best practices adopted department-wide.
Drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, define SLIs/SLOs, and lead initiatives that deliver highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.
Own end-to-end delivery pipeline strategy; improve deployment workflows, release reliability, and automation maturity across teams.
Research, pilot, and lead adoption of emerging technologies; make build-vs-buy and platform tooling recommendations.
Mentor senior and junior engineers, raise the technical bar, lead design reviews, and grow DevOps and automation competency across the organization.
Partner with engineering leadership, security, and product teams to align technical direction with business goals; promote Agile practices and a collaborative engineering culture.
Drive cloud cost optimization, resource efficiency, and automation of operational toil to achieve engineering excellence.
Contribute to hiring through technical interviews, define technical competency expectations, and support the development of the broader engineering team.

Benefits

A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility, and respect
Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute (if applicable)
Paid holidays and paid time off
Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more
Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
Relocation assistance (if applicable)