Sr Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering) (2026-10114)

Cox powered by Atrium

10d

About The Position

Cox Automotive is searching for Sr Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering) Cox Automotive is a leading provider of automotive products and services, offering a wide range of solutions to dealers, manufacturers, and consumers. With a focus on innovation and customer service, Cox Automotive helps clients navigate the ever-changing automotive industry landscape. From digital marketing and software solutions to vehicle remarketing and logistics, Cox Automotive is dedicated to driving the future of the automotive industry. This is a 6 Month W2 contract assignment with the opportunity for contract extension or to transition to a permanent, full-time role based on performance and business needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
At least 3-5 years working experience
Expertise in software development and architecture/solutioning experience
Strong background with Terraform
Experience with Amazon AWS technologies, especially ECS and Lambda
Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as New Relic, Splunk, PagerDuty
Experience with agile development, continuous integration, and automated testing
Solid written communication, problem solving, and process management skills
Target years of experience: 5
Top required skillset: Terraform, Linux/Unix systems experience, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Design and maintain AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Manheim Logistics’ development teams
Standardize and add functionality to Docker-based infrastructure solutions
Support new development team requests and architectural patterns (such as Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, etc)
Focus on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and best practices such as least privilege access, proactive monitoring, and alerting
Work directly with a release train and help with IaC and SRE activities
Improve monitoring and alerting
Define error budgets
Assist with DevSecOps
Strong automation experience including testing, deploying, and monitoring
Take complex problems and come up with technically reasonable solutions
Work with and define SLOs, error budgets, etc.
Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery and 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 automate recovery