Your role as a Software Engineer I at Cox Automotive involves managing, supporting and facilitating infrastructure operations that optimize our infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive automation initiatives, improve system scalability, and enhance operational efficiency. If you are passionate about automating and streamlining complex infrastructure, this is an exciting opportunity to join our innovative team.
Job Description
Enterprise Infrastructure, a part of Cox Automotive Product & Technology Group is looking for an Automation Engineer focused on Infrastructure Configuration as Code.
Our Team
At Cox Automotive Enterprise Infrastructure, we offer the chance for you to help contribute to the team in our Infrastructure Automation journey. You will be part of a team that is focused on automation, supporting the 3 strategic Cox Automotive data centers.
Your Role

• Managing, supporting, and facilitating software solutions to automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployment of IT infrastructure using Python and YAML with Ansible and Terraform configuration management tools.
• Support process improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to streamline and automate operational workflows to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Develop and standardize release pipelines for infrastructure components, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes that minimize downtime and enhance overall system reliability.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, applying them effectively in daily operations to promote collaboration, transparency, and shared responsibility across cross-functional teams.
• Actively contribute to an agile culture of ongoing knowledge sharing, continuous training, and relentless improvements, participating in team meetings, workshops, and training sessions to enhance your skills and expertise.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to identify opportunities for automation and assist with develop strategies for infrastructure as code (IaC) adoption.
• Optimize continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by integrating automated processes and tools.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to infrastructure automation, including architecture, workflows, and best practices.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other team members on infrastructure automation best practices.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies related to infrastructure automation and software development.
• Work closely with DevOps and software development teams to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure automation solutions.
• Manage change effectively, ensuring that all system changes are carefully planned, tested, and implemented in accordance with established change management procedures.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as 4 years' experience in a related field.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Java, Ruby, or similar.
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing frameworks to ensure the reliability and functionality of automated infrastructure solutions.
• Familiarity with relational database concepts and experience in working with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar.
• Experience with Ansible and Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Basic understanding of operating system administration and networking concepts.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Solarwinds, New Relic, or similar.
• Knowledge of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in an infrastructure automation context.
• Experience working with network devices such as Firewalls, Load Balancers & Routers.

Join our dynamic team and make a significant impact by leveraging your software development skills to automate and streamline our IT infrastructure. Be part of an innovative environment where you can contribute to the success of our organization through efficient and scalable infrastructure automation solutions.
USD 70,700.00 - 106,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $70,700.00 - $106,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
About Cox Automotive
At Cox Automotive, people of every background are driven by their passion for mobility, innovation and community. We transform the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars, accelerating the industry with global powerhouse brands like Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim and more. What's more, we do it all with an emphasis on employee growth and happiness. Drive your future forward and join Cox Automotive today!
About Cox
Cox empowers employees to build a better future and has been doing so for over 120 years. With exciting investments and innovations across transportation, communications, cleantech and healthcare, our family of businesses - which includes Cox Automotive and Cox Communications - is forging a better future for us all. Ready to make your mark? Join us today!
Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page .
Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.
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