Lead DevOps Engineer

Scout Motors • Charlotte, NC

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Scout Motors is bringing back an iconic American vehicle, electrifying and digitizing it with modern innovation. We are building a company that respects its past, its communities, its people, and its customers. We empower our talented, inclusive, and entrepreneurial teams to innovate. We are looking for individuals who are visionary leaders, knowledgeable doers, and passionate go-getters to join us in shaping the future of transportation. If you're ready to drive change and make history, apply now!

This role will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices. You will work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions, design and build infrastructure utilizing container orchestration such as EKS/K8S, and help choose and select managed cloud services. You will also design and build CI/CD tools, automation, and practices to enable agile and secure software deployments, and implement monitoring and logging solutions. Collaboration with security teams and cross-functional teams is essential to ensure the platform meets industry standards and compliance requirements. This role will lead engineers in designing, building, and maintaining all infrastructure, site reliability, and engineering productivity systems, and will own the Developer experience at Scout by contributing to the design and implementation of the internal developer portal.

Requirements

• Integrity, curiosity, resourcefulness, and a positive attitude, as well as a growth mindset.
• Comfort with change and flexibility in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Collaborative approach to achieve ambitious goals.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 12+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer, system architect, or software engineer with a focus on platform systems.
• Proficient in building automation using languages such as Python, Shell, Ruby, and others.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Harness.io, ArgoCD).
• Expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code (Crossplane, Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• A teaching and coaching approach to guiding engineers and teams in approaches.
• Expertise in the design and development of software solutions to support platform integrations, automations and developer experiences using languages such as Rust, GoLang, Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices.
• Work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions.
• Design and build infrastructure utilizing container orchestration such as EKS/K8S.
• Help choose and select managed cloud services that meet the needs of the platform engineering team to support software development goals.
• Design and build CICD tools, automation, and practices to enable agile and secure software deployments.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure components, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues.
• Implement logging solutions to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and analysis.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure the platform meets industry standards and compliance requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and QA engineers to ensure robust and reliable systems.
• Lead engineers in designing, building, and maintaining all infrastructure, site reliability, and engineering productivity systems.
• Own the Developer experience at Scout by contributing to the design and implementation of the internal developer portal.

Benefits

• Competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with: An employer match and immediate vesting
• Generous Paid Time Off including: 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Pay Transparency
• Annual performance bonus program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree