At Cox, we’re forward-thinking innovators who put people first. Our award-winning workplace culture is centered on inclusion and kindness, and we’re looking for people to join our mission to be a force for good in the world. Come build a better future with us across automotive, communications, the environment and more.

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.

Keep reading to learn more about this opportunity to join the Cox family of businesses.

This position is remote/work from home and can be located anywhere on the East Coast.

At Cox, we’re forward-thinking innovators who put people first. Our award-winning workplace culture is centered on inclusion and kindness, and we’re looking for people to join our mission to be a force for good in the world. Come build a better future with us across automotive, communications, the environment and more.

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.

Keep reading to learn more about this opportunity and how you can continue to make your mark with Cox.

Team Overview:

As a DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer, you will work with multiple software engineering teams focused on building, running, and monitoring multiple, fault-tolerant systems on-prem and in the cloud. You will

collaborate with some very smart people, focusing on performance and reliability, while increasing the

resiliency of our applications. The ideal candidate for this position would be someone who will be

comfortable with the investigation into how the software performs, network traffic flows and service

interaction. If you love to figure out how all the pieces are put together and interact in a complex

environment, have a passion for trouble shooting, root cause analysis, innovating in the newest

technologies, and enjoy building solutions for resiliency and “always available” applications, we want to talk to you.

What You Get To Do:

• Work with product managers and software engineers to increase the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems

• Think at scale, with a focus on ensuring stability and maximizing the performance of services you own

• Take advantage of cloud computing capabilities using Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning

• Roll up your sleeves to troubleshoot problems across the entire stack: hardware, network,

datastores, and application – and build automation to prevent problem reoccurrence

• Identifying underlying root causes and work with engineering teams to fix and/or provide

recommendations or solutions for long term permanent fixes to critical production issues

• Take ownership and strive to do work you're proud of. You believe in spreading (and acquiring)

knowledge through mentorship and collaboration

• Develop effective documentation, tooling, and alerts to both identify and address reliability risks.

• Participate in on-call rotation with other members of the Software Engineering team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

• Experience programming in Java, Spring, ORM (JPA, Hibernate), Web Services (RESTful, SOAP), JavaScript

• Experience with HTML5 and CSS3 web standards.

• Knowledge of web libraries and frameworks, such as Angular, React, Typescript, SCSS, and Bootstrap.

• Solid Windows and Linux experience

• Using distributed version control system experience (Git preferred) to check-in code, branching,

merging, pull request, code review, etc.

• Familiarity with configuration management and infrastructure as code (IaaC) tools such as Ansible,

Terraform or CloudFormation

• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices and tools such as AWS CodeBuild, Jenkins and Team City

• Experience designing and delivering secure, high performance and highly available cloud services

• Experience working with partners to define and track SLIs, SLOs and SLAs using metrics and

monitoring to ensure the objectives are met or exceeded

• Strong understanding of networking and DNS

• Experience working with container technologies such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes

We’d Love to See:

• Someone who sees technology as a hobby and not work, you enjoy taking things apart and then putting them back together to improve them

• Experience with monitoring, analysis, and alerting tools like New Relic, Splunk and OverOps

• Experience building infrastructure and supporting applications in AWS using services such as Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3, SNS, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB

• Understand and practice cost containment and Game Day activities • You thrive on technical challenges and take pride in solving them

• Deliver insightful recommendations in a concise, and persuasive manner

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a focus on customer service

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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