Lead DevOps Engineer
$160,000–$192,500 year
On-siteCharlotte, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC practices. Work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions, designing and building infrastructure utilizing container orchestration such as EKS/K8S. Lead engineers in designing, building, and maintaining all infrastructure, site reliability, and engineering productivity systems while owning the Developer experience by contributing to the internal developer portal. Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify issues and facilitate efficient troubleshooting, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure robust and reliable systems. Design CICD tools and automation practices to enable agile and secure software deployments, selecting managed cloud services that meet platform engineering goals.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience
- 12+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer, system architect, or software engineer with a focus on platform systems
- Proficient in building automation using languages such as Python, Shell, Ruby, and others
- Strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Expertise in configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Harness.io, ArgoCD)
- Expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code (Crossplane, Terraform, Pulumi, 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
- 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
- This role may be based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC or our office in Fremont, California
- This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events
- 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
- Notice to applicants: To be considered for career opportunities at Scout Motors, applicants must be 18 years of age or older
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