Leeds, London or Manchester - Up to twice a week

Department:

The Enterprise Service & Infrastructure team is a core part of the Cox Automotive Product and Technology group (CAPTG). Responsible for providing technology service support in production to our business. The team reports directly to the CIO, emphasising the critical role it plays in the organisation.

The team supports a broad and complex business estate comprising of 5 data centres, multiple Azure and AWS public cloud instances, ~20+ sites, ~800+ servers and ~2500+ end user devices. Multiple internally developed systems are hosted alongside several externally developed systems.

Cox Automotive is a global business, with headquarters in Atlanta, GA and offices in Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom, Europe and India.

Role:

Working within the Cox Automotive Cloud Platform team (covering UK and Europe) the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will be able to solve complex problems related to the design, build, deployment and support of the Cox Automotive public Cloud platforms (AWS).

You should come from a strong technical background with in-depth knowledge of AWS Public Cloud Technologies.

Previous experience in a DevOps or SRE role is essential, whilst having the ability to adapt quickly and provide solutions to complex scenarios in relation to our Cloud platforms and services.

Responsibilities:

Gather and analyse metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
Work with development teams to improve services through testing and release procedures
Participate in automation initiatives to streamline processes, improve efficiencies and reduce hosting cost
Meeting performance, availability, scalability, reliability, maintainability, and security SLAs.
Work closely with Product Owner, Platform Team, Solution Architects and development teams for continuous improvement
Enhance and drive automation and "Infrastructure as Code" delivery
Implement scalable, resilient, and secure solutions in the public cloud (AWS)
Provide support, design, configuration and maintenance of cloud hosting environments (AWS).
Take the lead in the architecture, design and build process for the infrastructure of the Cloud environments for Development, Test and Production
Enhance and drive automation and "Infrastructure as Code" delivery
Ability to analyse and troubleshoot complex software and infrastructure issues, and develop tools/systems for task automation
Developing, Testing, Debugging, and Troubleshooting of Containerised Infrastructure
Own the platform relationship with key stakeholders at architectural meetings and assess infrastructure design, ensuring requirements are met, whilst working closely with the technology project teams
Propose suggestions and best practices to optimise cloud Infrastructure (performance, security, and cost)

Skills & Experience:

Experience in a senior Cloud Platform Engineer / SRE / DevOps role
Experienced in the design, configuration, deployment and maintenance of AWS Public Cloud technologies
Deep technical knowledge of AWS services:
- Compute (EC2 / Lambda)
- Containers (ECR / ECS / EKS)
- Networking (VPC / CloudFront / Route 53 / API Gateway / ELB)
- Storage (S3)
- Security, Identity and Compliance
- Management (Backup)
- Database (RDS MySQL)
- Integration (EventBridge / Apache Kafka)
Deployment and management of containerisation technologies (Docker)
Operations or systems administration experience, particularly on Linux (Debian)
Deep understanding of LAMP architectures
Proficient with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools (New Relic / Splunk)
Excellent knowledge of script languages and shell scripts (Terraform / YAML / Node.js
Ability to automate tasks by scripting (Bash / Lambda)
Experience deploying systems into Cloud environments using Infrastructure As Code technologies (Terraform)
Track record of implementing systems
Experience of managing complex web / API environments
Continuous improvement mindset
Experience in managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Enterprise, GitHub actions and runners)

Desirable:

AWS Certifications
Proficient with Linux, in several flavours, and the use of command line tools
Knowledge of encryption technologies (SSL/TLS)
Experience with BCP and DR practices.
Proficient in the configuration and maintenance of SQL and able to write and read SQL queries
Experience with GraphQL

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#INDTR

Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive service organisation. We
provide dependable solutions that improve performance and profitability
throughout the vehicle lifecycle to manufacturers, fleets, and retailers.
Our businesses are organised around our customers’ core needs across vehicle
solutions, mobility, remarketing, funding, and retail.