Job Summary:
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, and improving operational reliability across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 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.
• GitHub Pipelines
• CI/CD strategy and implementation
• Git branching models
• XML and YAML templating
• SSL certificate management
• Command-line tools and scripting
• Docker or Podman
• Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Microservices deployment patterns
• Python
• Bash
• Java
• JavaScript (Node.js)
• Configuration management
• Automation playbooks and workflows
• Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• Inventory and environment management
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• DB2 operations and migrations
• New Relic
• Grafana
• Log aggregation and monitoring platforms
• Performance metrics and reporting
• Git
• Git Submodules
• Artifact repositories
• Registry solutions
• Secrets management platforms
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.
Preferred:
• Relevant industry certifications are a plus.
Company:
Tire Rack is a tire tester and consumer-direct source for tires, wheels, and performance accessories. Founded in 1979, the company is headquartered in South Bend, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.