Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer

Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer who will have a holistic approach about systems when driving the definition, building, deployment, and operations of Solera applications in close collaboration with Dev, QA and Ops peers.

We are seeking an individual who will show ownership and can help build the appropriate bridges and processes across the various teams, leveraging experience with minimal direction, while balancing trade-off and strict processes and methodologies in a fast-paced environment. This individual will lead the creation and evolution of our CI/CD pipelines for deployment and operations of solutions across Solera’s various environments which may include on-prem or cloud systems.

Our products intersect with all the current and exciting trends in the automotive and transportation industries and our business is growing every year. Our people and our platforms are the foundation and enabler of that growth.

We are expanding our team looking for technologists with a passion for developing highly available and distributed applications in the cloud, and a drive to deliver software products that make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

Solera is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the Parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The Parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.

Our Stack

We expect the ideal candidate to be proficient in the following technologies and tools (list not exhaustive), the CI/CD and Infrastructure stacks:

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Helm Deploy, Spinnaker, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins, NuGet, SonarQube

Source Control and Processes: Jira, Confluence, Git/GitHub

Languages: Python, PowerShell, batch, bash

Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, MSK, EC2, S3, ECR, Secrets Manager, Cognito, etc...), Terraform, Linux administration, Windows Server administration, Docker

Backend: MS SQL Server, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Data Dog

Traditional internet and security protocols (HTTP, TLS, PKI)

Our Team

The IT team runs the entire infrastructure supporting Solera services and customers, powered by on-prem systems in our datacenter and a large public cloud footprint. The team, whose ownership and drive has no match, is composed of experts in DevOps, DataOps, Production Operations, IT, and Security. Our team is a global operation with support around the clock to ensure we fulfill the Solera Promise to our customers.

Your Role

Lead the transition of legacy/manual deployment processes to a completely automated DevOps ready posture

Ownership in a very agile and fast paced environment of the CI/CD pipeline for deployment and operations of Solera AWS footprint

Create and maintain the continuously evolving Solera DevOps CI/CD pipelines across Dev, QA and Production

Create and maintain all cloud resources with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 

Maintain stability across all environments with IaC

Develop with cross-functional teams’ strategies towards higher organizational throughput via automation and flexible processes

Design and create reliable continuous deployment solutions that will yield higher availability and uptime for our internal and external customers

Manage operational cost with optimal resource utilization across on-prem and cloud services, including evolving capacity planning

Help the team balance and plan longer term projects against the demands of a fast-changing environment

Enforce security policies by ensuring vulnerabilities are tracked and timely addressed

Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Solera environments

Support Dev and QA teams along the steps of the Software Development Life Cycle by maintaining environments and tools

Maintain and develop documentation to facilitate understanding of products, features, and tools, including training material

Participate in rotations as necessary in a 24x7x365 organization

Minimum Qualifications

B.S. or M.S. Degree in Computer Science/Computer Information Science or equivalent (M.S. highly desirable)

8+ years of experience driving CI/CD for systems being deployed to cloud providers (proficiency with AWS services and associated setup/operations)

8+ years of experience in a 24x7x365 global SaaS/PaaS operation

8+ years of experience with virtualization and Docker containers

Proficiency with scripting languages (PowerShell, batch, bash, Python, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

You demonstrate proficiency the technologies in our stack (see above) with 8+ years of experience in a large portion of the tools and technologies we leverage, in particular the CI/CD and Infra stacks.

You demonstrate a high sense of urgency and ownership

You take great pride in helping teams and individuals

You have competence in building and designing complex systems leveraging multiple technologies (legacy and new)

You can demonstrate and ensure consistency in line with industry best practices for CI/CD, code quality, operational readiness, and security

Strong organizational skills in a fast paced and fast changing environment

You are driven, self-motivated to learn and ramp up fast

You are candid and are able to hold your own as the DevOps representative in cross-functional teams

Be able to perform training and knowledge transfers