Sr. Specialist, IT
About The Position
Scout Motors is reviving an iconic American vehicle brand, electrifying and digitizing it with American innovation. The company values exploration, caretaking, and hard work, aiming to create vehicles that are versatile for various uses. Scout Motors empowers its teams to innovate, seeking visionary leaders who are knowledgeable doers, collaborators, and passionate individuals. Joining Scout Motors means being part of shaping the future of transportation and making history. This role will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC practices. The specialist will work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions, design and build infrastructure utilizing container orchestration (EKS/K8S), and select managed cloud services. Key responsibilities include designing and building CI/CD tools for agile and secure software deployments, implementing cloud infrastructure components for high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance, and setting up monitoring and logging solutions. Collaboration with security teams to ensure compliance and with cross-functional teams (product managers, developers, QA engineers) for robust systems is essential. The role requires 4-5 days per week in the office in Fremont, California, or Charlotte, North Carolina, with regular in-person meetings and occasional travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps, Cloud, or Site Reliability engineer.
- Expertise with Open Telemetry or similar observability platforms.
- Proficient in building automation using languages such as Python, Shell, Golang and others.
- Expert experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Kargo.
- Strong experience with AWS.
- Experience with on premise environments using Nutanix or VMWare.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, 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.
- Experience with AI tooling such as Github Copilot, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock or Azure Foundry.
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.
- OnShift On-Call is required.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
