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Senior DevOps Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: South Bend, IN (On-Site)
Department: Information Technology – Software Development

About the Role

Tire Rack is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to help advance the reliability, scalability, automation, and security of our software delivery and infrastructure operations.

This role serves as a key technical leader responsible for designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, supporting containerized deployments, automating infrastructure processes, and improving monitoring, release management, and operational reliability across the organization.

The Senior DevOps Engineer partners closely with Software Development, Infrastructure, Database, and Information Security teams to build and support enterprise application platforms, including tools such as Profound, GoAnywhere, Spring-based applications, and related systems. This position plays a critical role in reducing manual effort, improving deployment consistency, and ensuring systems remain secure, resilient, and highly available.

At Tire Rack, we operate with the values of IOOGA — Integrity, Our People, Our Customers, Growth, and Attitude.

What You'll Do

DevOps Engineering & Automation

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
• Implement and support deployment strategies across containerized and traditional application environments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Git-based workflows.
• Design and manage deployment processes across Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.
• Evaluate and implement containerization, artifact management, registry solutions, and reusable deployment templates.
• Audit and improve build, release, and deployment processes to enhance reliability, consistency, and efficiency.

Infrastructure & Platform Reliability

• Support containerized platforms and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes-based environments.
• Diagnose and resolve complex deployment, pipeline, environment, and system issues.
• Improve infrastructure automation, monitoring, release strategies, and operational performance.
• Support distributed deployment architectures, multi-site replication, and service routing strategies.
• Manage and maintain enterprise integrations and agent processing tools, including New Relic and GoAnywhere.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain secure DevOps practices aligned with Tire Rack’s IT security standards.
• Manage IAM roles, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, SSL certificates, SSH keys, and access controls.
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to strengthen deployment and infrastructure security.
• Promote secure software delivery practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner with Java, Python, API, database, and infrastructure teams to support reliable software delivery.
• Influence DevOps tooling standards, automation practices, and release management strategies.
• Communicate deployment status, technical risks, and process improvements to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead and support modernization initiatives focused on automation, environment improvements, and operational reliability.
• Estimate effort, technical impact, risks, and resource requirements for DevOps projects and infrastructure improvements.
• Participate in support rotations and respond quickly to production incidents to minimize business impact.

What We're Looking For

Required Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, Software Development, Software Testing, or a related enterprise technology environment.
• Strong experience supporting enterprise server, storage, networking, and application platforms.
• Proven success designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Technical Expertise

DevOps & CI/CD

• GitHub Pipelines
• CI/CD strategy and implementation
• Git branching models
• XML and YAML templating
• SSL certificate management
• Command-line tools and scripting

Containerization & Orchestration

• Docker or Podman
• Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Microservices deployment patterns

Programming & Scripting

• Python
• Bash
• Java
• JavaScript (Node.js)

Infrastructure Automation

• Configuration management
• Automation playbooks and workflows
• Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• Inventory and environment management

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• DB2 operations and migrations

Monitoring & Observability

• New Relic
• Grafana
• Log aggregation and monitoring platforms
• Performance metrics and reporting

Version Control & Artifact Management

• Git
• Git Submodules
• Artifact repositories
• Registry solutions
• Secrets management platforms

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• Relevant industry certifications are a plus.

Schedule

Work Days: Monday – Friday
Occasional evenings and weekends may be required to support deployments, maintenance activities, and critical business needs.

Work Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Additional hours may be necessary based on project requirements and operational support needs.

Why Join Tire Rack?

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of Tire Rack's technology platforms. You'll work alongside talented engineers and technology professionals to modernize infrastructure, improve software delivery, and build scalable solutions that support one of the industry's most trusted brands.