Senior DevOps Engineer, TechOps

Plano, TX | Hybrid Option

Our Toyota Connected TechOps team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to create, maintain, support, and improve complex cloud operations for cutting edge microservice based platforms. Ideal candidates will apply their knowledge in a highly energized, fast-paced, and innovative environment while working on Toyota Connected products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead initiatives including defining project objectives, developing project schedules, preparing cost estimates, allocating/forecasting resources, and ensuring timely delivery under the direction of Manager/Product Manager.
• Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining readability, maintainability, and efficiency.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting in scripts with multiple integration points.
• Lead or participate in code reviews to improve overall script quality, starting to see constructive feedback.
• Write clean, reusable, and high-quality IaC to solve novel or complex problems and lead advanced IaC reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and providing guidance during the merge review process.
• Design patterns, practices, and platforms that enable developers to integrate and deliver software components efficiently.
• Build and improve the CI/CD process, ensuring a fully functional software ecosystem.
• Independently manage virtual servers, containers, and orchestration platforms.
• Identify and develop local and cross team / org automation capabilities for products that impact key business SLAs and KPIs.
• Implement security measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality across pipelines.
• Lead the advanced troubleshooting and resolution of complex or novel system issues, including analyzing logs, performance data, and system behavior.
• Define and enforce consistent branching strategies to facilitate parallel development, code isolation, and seamless integration across team(s).
• Regularly review and analyze system performance metrics, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve speed and responsiveness.
• Handle multi region or multi cloud network management, including zero trust networks and virtual private networks.
• Assist in canary deployments.
• Perform chaos engineering with networking to test resilience.
• Develop and implement strategies for network redundancy and disaster recovery.
• Ensure that network infrastructure can withstand and recover from failures/disasters with minimal impact.
• Lead and facilitate technical discussions, providing insights and recommendations based on DevOps principles.
• Coach more junior DevOps Engineers through targeted feedback and guidance to improve technical skills, overcome challenges, and achieve specific goals.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of production experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer
• DevOps expertise to efficiently provide valuable insights and solve challenging problems with minimal supervision or escalation and advance processes that are shared among other team members or groups
• Expertise in Terraform to create, modify, and manage infrastructure configurations or IaC templates
• Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) to build, package, and deploy optimized container images
• Proficiency in GitOps technologies (ArgoCD) to deploy applications and services to Kubernetes clusters
• Advanced proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines that span with increasing complexity and integrating across multiple environments
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS) to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout product lifecycle
• Proficiency in cloud architecture and design patterns to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures and apply best practices for cloud deployments
• Expertise with a scripting language to develop custom tools and scripts for DevOps workflows or integrate with APIs
• Expertise in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts
• Versed within InfoSec policies and procedures to adhere to security standards/regulations and identify gaps in security architecture
• Expertise in monitoring and analytics platforms to set up monitors, alerts, and diagnostic tools for proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across distributed systems
• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting system architecture components (e.g., databases, caching layers, load-balancing) to ensure peak performance, including profiling
• Expertise in cloud networking concepts and troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve network connectivity issues, manage performance, and implement optimization strategies
• Understanding of cloud billing and cost management tools to recognize total costs
• Experience in leading initiatives under direction
• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision making skills
• Ability to apply systems thinking to understand interdependencies and design solutions that achieve results
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods
• Experience mentoring, providing technical guidance, and training more junior team members
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks/assignments
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders
• Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Excited about this opportunity, but don't meet 100% of the qualifications?
We'd still love for you to apply Toyota Connected is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where unique experiences are valued, and everyone has the opportunity to contribute. You may just be the right candidate for this, or other Toyota Connected opportunities.

Location:

This position is based in Plano, Texas. Toyota Connected encourages all employees to live within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned work location for Hybrid work.

To save time applying, Toyota Connected does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position currently.

What's in it for you?

In addition to an excellent compensation and benefits package, you'll also receive:

• A Career Path that allows you to take your career to the next level.
• Annual $2,500 Training Budget to help you grow and develop your professional skills.
• Unlimited time off and flexibility for a great work-life balance. At TC you'll be treated like the professional we know you are and left to manage your own time and workload.
• Home office stipend of $1,000 to help furnish an ergonomic remote office.
• Four months of paid parental leave. We want new moms and dads to have an opportunity to bond with their new little bundles of joy.
• Adoption Assistance of $5,000 for regular adoptions or $6,000 for special needs. We know adoption costs can add up, and we want to help.
• 401(k) with generous company match that is fully vested day one.
• Toyota and Lexus vehicle discounts to allow you to drive in style.
• Generous vehicle allowance for new and leased Toyota and Lexus vehicles. Scratch that vehicle