Lead Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Lead Site Reliability Engineer positions offered by Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Austin, Texas). Lead the implementation of IaC and automation with unit testing, quality gates, AppSec tooling, automated functional testing, and performance testing. Develop and maintain observability practices, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems. Create and manage runbooks, gamedays, postmortems, and incident response workflows. Engage with cross-functional teams that design, develop and implement enterprise scalable cloud-based solutions to drive improvement in SRE/DevOps best practices and tooling. Play a role in establishing best practices, supporting communities of practice, and promoting adoption within the engineering teams.
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience implementing quality frameworks with quality gates within a CI/CD framework.
- Must have 6 years of experience in each of the following: Working with observability platforms, including NewRelic, Cloudwatch, Grafana, or DataDog; Working in AWS and CI/CD tooling and capabilities; Using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation; Working in one of the following programming languages: C#, Java, or Python; and Working in AppSec tools, including Veracode, CloudSploit, or Data Theorem.
- In lieu of a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 6 years of experience as stated, employer will accept a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 4 years of experience as stated, or a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields and 1 year of experience as stated.
Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of IaC and automation with unit testing, quality gates, AppSec tooling, automated functional testing, and performance testing.
- Develop and maintain observability practices, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems.
- Create and manage runbooks, gamedays, postmortems, and incident response workflows.
- Engage with cross-functional teams that design, develop and implement enterprise scalable cloud-based solutions to drive improvement in SRE/DevOps best practices and tooling.
- Play a role in establishing best practices, supporting communities of practice, and promoting adoption within the engineering teams.
Benefits
- health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- retirement planning (401(k))
- paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
- flexible vacation with pay
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually
- bereavement leave
- time off to vote
- jury duty leave
- volunteer time off
- military leave
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
