DevOps Engineering Manager

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401K savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. seeks a manager of DevOps engineers for its new Seattle office, driving innovative software development for cloud-based services. The role includes mentoring a team of DevOps professionals, enhancing infrastructure, and ensuring operational stability.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's degree and has over 8 years of experience in software engineering. In addition, strong leadership skills and familiarity with cloud technologies are essential. The company offers generous benefits including medical, dental, 401K, and more.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or DevOps Engineer.
• Strong ownership of DevOps practices and methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline processes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to infrastructure builds for cloud and virtualization environments.
• Mentor team members and provide technical direction.
• Build and manage a team of DevOps professionals.

Skills

Leadership in DevOps

Cloud/Virtualization technologies

Python

Agile Development

Problem solving

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related

Tools

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Azure

CI/CD tools

Job description

Embedded in a worldwide network Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. continuously strives to remain at the forefront of successful automotive research and development. MBRDNA is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California since 1995, with key areas of Autonomous Driving, Advanced Interaction Design, Digital User Experience, Machine Learning, Custumer Research, and Business Innovation. In Redford, Michigan, the focus is on powertrain and eDrive technology as well as in Long Beach, where the E-Mobility Group helps to shape the future of the North American market for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicles. The Testing and Regulatory Affairs Division in Ann Arbor and the Advanced Vehicle Design in Carlsbad complete the competence center.

Together, all the developers, technicians, engineers and designers take on the challenges of creating the next innovation. They’re inspired by the newest trends, find the best solutions for the customer, develop the latest and greatest technologies and create the next generation of connected, safe, sustainable and luxurious vehicles.

Department: This center will be responsible for innovative software development for the global brand with a focus on highly available APIs and services leveraging cloud technologies. While this center is serving the US market directly, the product produced will be launched internationally, impacting the lives of millions of people.

Job Description

Mercedes-Benz Seattle Hub is looking for a manager of DevOps engineers for the new office in Seattle. The Infrastructure Engineering and Operations (DevOps) team are the experts in building and maintaining the infrastructure for web services and applications that support our cloud business. We are systems engineers, infrastructure engineers, Operations Architects and SMEs with opportunities to develop software to support our charter. We are a geo-diverse team, developing an infrastructure platform to ensure operational stability for our software deployments, the development environment and delivery partners in their adoption of cloud based solutions and datacenters for Mercedes-Benz.

• Contribute to the design and infrastructure builds platforms that leverage Cloud/Virtualization and hybrid environments.
• Cultivate relationships with developers, engineers and other technology partners to understand their infrastructure needs and put them into action.
• Provide mentorship and technical direction to team-members and evangelize practices and methodologies.
• Develop metrics, monitors and alerting to ensure operational excellence.
• Identify opportunities to automate processes and help to implement potential solutions.
• Provide scalable engineering and supportability deliverables, resulting in products and services with more efficiency, lower risk, and reduced customer impact.
• Identify security and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network and application; Provide technical expertise in identifying issues that affect availability and quality across the software product portfolio.
• Build and Manage a team of high‑performing DevOps professionals
• Mentor DevOps professionals and provide opportunities for career development
• Build the DevOps process and tools for the Seattle Hub
• Represent Seattle Hub interests in discussions with DevOps teams in Germany and elsewhere
• Manage DevOps resources to cover all DevOps needs for the development teams/projects

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related
• Eight plus years’ experience as Software Engineer or DevOps Engineer.
• Previous experience in a leadership position within a DevOps team.
• First‑hand experience with the software development life cycle, software testing methodologies and Agile Development Methodology.
• Lead creation of software development and deployment techniques and tools.
• Have the ability to quickly understand and assimilate business vision and goals in all solutions, and ‘translate’ technical information teams and test cases.
• Strong ability to multi‑task and effectively function in an interrupt‑driven environment. Have excellent analytical & problem solving skills. Have the ability to innovate and be creative.
• Solve problems and have the tenacity to drive issues to conclusion.
• Have strong written and verbal skills and their skills to collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of job functions
• Have project management skills to handle multiple concurrent projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two plus years of experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or other Major cloud based technologies including administration and scripting of tasks. Can use VM based infrastructure as substitute skill
• Two plus years of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline process experience in development and production environments.
• Have previously developed software which is closely coupled with hardware devices (automotive, mobile handsets, gaming hardware).
• Proficiency in a programming language (Python, Java, C#)
• Experience managing DevOps individual contributors
• Knowledge of CAN networks and OBD interface in a vehicle.

Additional Information

MBRDNA is an equal opportunity employer that offers generous benefits and compensation, work / life balance tools and several methods of recognition and rewards. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, 401K savings plan, tuition and fitness reimbursement programs and much more.