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We want to do everything we can to keep our employees safe and healthy. Therefore, where permitted by applicable law, you will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be considered for this U.S.-based job. Reasonable accommodations for medical and religious objections will of course be considered.

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This position is remote/work from home. You need to reside within the Central or Eastern Time Zones and be able to work overlapping times with the teams in Austin, TX.

Cox Automotive’ s, vAuto Brand, is currently looking for an experienced Cloud Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Austin, TX.

The Job

As Senior Software Engineer, you will bring a collaborative style in leading efforts that raise the maturity levels of the professional engineering practices and cloud engineering.  As a Sr. Software Engineer you are expected to use your experience and voice as a tool to helping your team achieve the best possible results by sharing your technical insights and helping shape the functional outcome.

We are specifically interested in engineers with deep knowledge and hands on cloud development experience, ideally with a deep experience in microservice architectures and professional engineering practices.

Come use your creative genius, sense of ownership, and a desire to collaborate and make a difference.

Technology We Use 

AWS:  API Gateway, ECS Fargate, EKS, Lambda, Kinesis, SQS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Aurora Postgres, S3

Automation Tooling:  GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, Selenium, Artifactory, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Terraform, SonarQube, Veracode, Spinnaker, LaunchDarkly, Splunk, NewRelic, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana

Languages:  C#, .NET, .Net Core, Terraform, SQL, OpenAPI, Python

Your Role 

Serve as valuable key contributor in building cloud based applications.

Serve as a key supporter of professional engineering practices, such as CI/CD tooling and automation capabilities, including automated quality management and infrastructure as code.

Engage with cross-functional teams in design, development and implementation of enterprise scalable cloud-based solutions.

Play a role in establishing best practices.

Be an excellent team member, assisting other team members in achieving the teams sprint goals.

Qualifications:

Where permitted by applicable law, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be considered for this U.S. based job.

Reasonable accommodations for medical and religious objections will be considered.

Minimum of 5+ years of relevant professional experience (cloud development, C#, etc).

Minimum of 2+ years of experience in use of CI/CD.

Minimum of 2+ years of experience in use of quality frameworks with quality gates within CI/CD.

Ideally experience in IaC, ideally Terraform

Knowledge on these technologies is plus

Docker

AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS orchestration of containers, SQS/Kinesis, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, Aurora, DynamoDB)

Infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform)

API Gateway and/or ServiceMesh

Observability with Splunk and NewRelic

What We Look For 

Experience and understanding of working in AWS environments.

Experience in Cloud native containerized applications, with a focus on microservice architectures and an API first development methodology.

Experience in Cloud pub/sub event driven architecture patterns.

Experience in Cloud application security and governance.

Experience in using professional engineering practices:

Site Reliability practices

Automated CI/CD – Continuous integration and delivery

Automated IaC – Infrastructure as code

Automated quality frameworks (SonarQube, Veracode, automated testing)

Consistent observability and telemetry frameworks

Experience in modern OO language, ideally C# and dotnet

Experience in Terraform

High energy, confident, ambitious and self-motivated individual.

End-to-end ownership of product design, delivery and operational support.

Must be an effective communicator and able to communicate with all levels of the organization.

Willingness to mentor Software Engineers.

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Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.  Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators.  We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation.  We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

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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