Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Cox Communications • Atlanta, GA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Cox Automotive is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Manheim Logistics SRE team . The SRE team is tasked with designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Manheim Logistics’ 15+ development teams. The team has currently standardized on a Docker-based infrastructure solution and is adding functionality to support new development team requests and architectural patterns (such as Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, etc). The SRE team has a strong focus on IaC with Terraform and best practices such as least privilege access, proactive monitoring and alerting, etc. This role will work directly with a release train and help with IaC and SRE activites such as improving monitoring/alerting, defining an error budget, assisting with DevSecOps, etc. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cox Automotive you will: Take complex problems and come up with a technically reasonable solution Experience working with and defining SLOs, error budgets, etc. Have innate curiosity about how things work Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery & performance Design and assist in the setup and maintenance of application monitoring and alerting Engage with engineering teams to ensure best practices are implemented Improve predictability and reliability of software releases, workflows, and operating software. Reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by helping troubleshoot, monitor, alert, and automating recovery. Solid written communication, problem solving, and process management skills

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and minimum 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a Master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a P.h.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field.
• Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.
• Minimum 4 years in software development and architecture/solutioning experience.
• Strong automation experience- testing, deploying, monitoring, etc.
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Amazon AWS technologies especially: ECS and Lambda
• Monitoring/observability tools such as: New Relic , Splunk, PagerDuty
• Experience with agile development, continuous integration and automated testing

Nice To Haves

• Broad AWS platform skills including Cognito, WAF, Elasticache (Redis), Elasticsearch, SNS, SQS, S3, Systems Manager
• Experience automating Terraform at scale
• Experience with Database Server infrastructure (RDS, MySQL, Postgres, etc)
• .NET core development experience
• GitHub Actions
• Experience with Github, docker, and Linux adminstration experience

Responsibilities

• Take complex problems and come up with a technically reasonable solution
• Experience working with and defining SLOs, error budgets, etc.
• Have innate curiosity about how things work
• Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery & performance
• Design and assist in the setup and maintenance of application monitoring and alerting
• Engage with engineering teams to ensure best practices are implemented
• Improve predictability and reliability of software releases, workflows, and operating software.
• Reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by helping troubleshoot, monitor, alert, and automating recovery.
• Solid written communication, problem solving, and process management skills

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees