Lead DevOps Engineer

Description

• Design and implement cloud infrastructure components, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Help choose and select managed cloud services that meet the needs of the platform engineering team to support software development goals.
• Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and QA engineers to ensure robust and reliable systems.
• Lead engineers in designing, building, and maintaining all infrastructure, site reliability, and engineering productivity systems.
• Own the Developer experience at Scout by contributing to the design and implementation of the internal developer portal.
• Design and build infrastructure utilizing container orchestration such as EKS/K8S.
• Implement logging solutions to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and analysis.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices.
• Design and build CICD tools, automation, and practices to enable agile and secure software deployments.
• Work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure the platform meets industry standards and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. When a problem occurs, you run towards it not away.
• Residing in San Francisco: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Applicants should expect that the role will require the ability to convene with Scout colleagues in person and travel to participate in events on behalf of the company from time to time.
• Residing in New York City: This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills. You treat colleagues with respect. You have a desire for clean implementations but are also humble in discussing alternative solutions and options.
• Proficient in building automation using languages such as Python, Shell, Ruby, and others.
• Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Residing in Los Angeles: Scout Motors will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
• A teaching and coaching approach to guiding engineers and teams in approaches.
• Expert Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Harness.io, ArgoCD).
• This role may be based out of a Scout Motors location in Fremont, California or out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC. This role may be remote to start but will transition to an in-office setting at the headquarters within 6 months of start date. This role is not eligible for remote work in New York City.
• Expertise in the design and development of software solutions to support platform integrations, automations and developer experiences using languages such as Rust, GoLang, Python or Java.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• The responsibilities of this role require 4-5 days attendance in office with in-person meetings and events regularly.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer, system architect, or software engineer with a focus on platform systems.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off including:
• Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave
• Competitive insurance including:
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders
• Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans
• 401(k) program with:
• 20 days planned PTO, as accrued
• 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance