Lead DevOps Engineer

Lead DevOps EngineerJoin Scout Motors, a company that is electrifying and digitizing an iconic American brand with American innovation. This position is based out of the Scout Motors corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC or our office in Fremont, California. This role requires 4-5 days per week in the office, with regular in-person meetings and events.As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the overall cloud infrastructure platform using modern IaC (Infrastructure as Code) practices. You will work closely with software development and systems integration teams to build end-to-end solutions. You will design and build infrastructure utilizing container orchestration such as EKS/K8S. You will help choose and select managed cloud services that meet the needs of the platform engineering team to support software development goals. You will design and build CICD tools, automation, and practices to enable agile and secure software deployments. You will design and implement cloud infrastructure components, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance. You will implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address potential issues. You will implement logging solutions to facilitate efficient troubleshooting and analysis. You will collaborate with security teams to ensure the platform meets industry standards and compliance requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and QA engineers to ensure robust and reliable systems. You will lead engineers in designing, building, and maintaining all infrastructure, site reliability, and engineering productivity systems. You will own the Developer experience at Scout by contributing to the design and implementation of the internal developer portal.To be considered for this role, you should have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent work experience. You should have 12+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer, system architect, or software engineer with a focus on platform systems. You should be proficient in building automation using languages such as Python, Shell, Ruby, and others. You should have strong experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). You should have expertise in configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet). You should have a solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, Harness.io, ArgoCD). You should have expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. You should have expert knowledge of infrastructure as code (Crossplane, Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK). You should have excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. You should have effective communication and collaboration skills. You should have a teaching and coaching approach to guiding engineers and teams in approaches. You should have expertise in the design and development of software solutions to support platform integrations, automations and developer experiences using languages such as Rust, GoLang, Python or Java.Scout Motors provides competitive compensation and benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. Program specifics are detailed in company policies and employee benefit guides, select highlights include competitive insurance including: Medical, dental, vision and income protection plans; 401(k) program with an employer match and immediate vesting; Generous Paid Time Off including 20 days planned PTO, as accrued, 40 hours of unplanned PTO and 14 company or floating holidays, annually, up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for biological and adoptive parents of all genders; Paid leave for circumstances related to bereavement, jury duty, voting time, or military leave.