Senior DevOps Engineer

Tire Rack•South Bend, IN

67d•Onsite

About The Position

Tire Rack is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help advance the reliability, scalability, automation, and security of our software delivery and infrastructure operations. This role serves as a key technical leader responsible for designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, supporting containerized deployments, automating infrastructure processes, and improving monitoring, release management, and operational reliability across the organization. The Senior DevOps Engineer partners closely with Software Development, Infrastructure, Database, and Information Security teams to build and support enterprise application platforms, including tools such as Profound, GoAnywhere, Spring-based applications, and related systems. This position plays a critical role in reducing manual effort, improving deployment consistency, and ensuring systems remain secure, resilient, and highly available. At Tire Rack, we operate with the values of IOOGA — Integrity, Our People, Our Customers, Growth, and Attitude.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Software Development, Software Testing, or a related enterprise technology environment.
Strong experience supporting enterprise server, storage, networking, and application platforms.
Proven success designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
GitHub Pipelines
CI/CD strategy and implementation
Git branching models
XML and YAML templating
SSL certificate management
Command-line tools and scripting
Docker or Podman
Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
Microservices deployment patterns
Python
Bash
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Configuration management
Automation playbooks and workflows
Infrastructure-as-Code principles
Inventory and environment management
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
DB2 operations and migrations
New Relic
Grafana
Log aggregation and monitoring platforms
Performance metrics and reporting
Git
Git Submodules
Artifact repositories
Registry solutions
Secrets management platforms
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

Relevant industry certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
Implement and support deployment strategies across containerized and traditional application environments.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Git-based workflows.
Design and manage deployment processes across Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.
Evaluate and implement containerization, artifact management, registry solutions, and reusable deployment templates.
Audit and improve build, release, and deployment processes to enhance reliability, consistency, and efficiency.
Support containerized platforms and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes-based environments.
Diagnose and resolve complex deployment, pipeline, environment, and system issues.
Improve infrastructure automation, monitoring, release strategies, and operational performance.
Support distributed deployment architectures, multi-site replication, and service routing strategies.
Manage and maintain enterprise integrations and agent processing tools, including New Relic and GoAnywhere.
Implement and maintain secure DevOps practices aligned with Tire Rack’s IT security standards.
Manage IAM roles, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, SSL certificates, SSH keys, and access controls.
Collaborate with Information Security teams to strengthen deployment and infrastructure security.
Promote secure software delivery practices throughout the development lifecycle.
Partner with Java, Python, API, database, and infrastructure teams to support reliable software delivery.
Influence DevOps tooling standards, automation practices, and release management strategies.
Communicate deployment status, technical risks, and process improvements to stakeholders and leadership.
Lead and support modernization initiatives focused on automation, environment improvements, and operational reliability.
Estimate effort, technical impact, risks, and resource requirements for DevOps projects and infrastructure improvements.
Participate in support rotations and respond quickly to production incidents to minimize business impact.