Lead Engineer, Enterprise Applications

SwiftCruit; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Solera seeks a Lead Engineer for Enterprise Applications in Westlake, TX to guide production services with deep IAM and Windows/Linux expertise. You will lead incident response, ensure availability, and collaborate with IT and development teams to keep systems secure and performant.

The role requires strong senior technical leadership, experience with multi‑tier web apps, containers, databases, networking, and public cloud environments. The team emphasizes reliable, scalable software services.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise application services and production support.
• Strong leadership and incident management capabilities.
• Familiarity with IAM, security, and monitoring of complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve complex application issues to ensure optimal performance and usability for the various systems and users, and coordinate with department heads to pinpoint and fix issues.
• Provide 24×7 on‑call support on a rotational basis.
• Monitor application performance to measure uptime and downtime and implement strategies to improve availability and performance.
• Manage and resolve technical issues as they arise, provide incident reports, and see through the resolution process to its end.
• Conduct regular reviews of systems to ensure application health, security, and availability.
• Collaborate with IT and development teams to ensure software projects are properly implemented and to update applications as required.
• Document procedures and practices in a clear, concise manner, ensuring that the organization can continue to rely on this guidance in the future.
• Responsible for the monitoring, measuring, performance, availability, security, recovery, and throughput of application services.
• Oversee the operational integrity of tools, systems, and infrastructure, including technical or process changes that could impact application services.

Skills

Windows/Linux

Web apps

Middleware

Containers

Databases

Networking

Citrix/VDI

Public cloud

VMware

CI/CD

Java/.NET/Python

F5/HAProxy

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

VMware

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Lead Engineer, Enterprise Applications/Westlake

Who We Are

Solera is a global leader in data and software services for vehicle lifecycle and other assets.

The Role

This role will play a crucial part in Solera's day‑to‑day operations and initiatives. The successful candidate will possess deep technical experience around identity and access management, focusing on production application services support for Windows and Linux operating systems and proprietary platforms. The position requires strong management and senior technical leadership.

What You’ll Do

• Diagnose and resolve complex application issues to ensure optimal performance and usability for the various systems and users, and coordinate with department heads to pinpoint and fix issues.
• Provide 24×7 on‑call support on a rotational basis.
• Monitor application performance to measure uptime and downtime and implement strategies to improve availability and performance.
• Manage and resolve technical issues as they arise, provide incident reports, and see through the resolution process to its end.
• Conduct regular reviews of systems to ensure application health, security, and availability.
• Collaborate with IT and development teams to ensure software projects are properly implemented and to update applications as required.
• Document procedures and practices in a clear, concise manner, ensuring that the organization can continue to rely on this guidance in the future.
• Responsible for the monitoring, measuring, performance, availability, security, recovery, and throughput of application services.
• Oversee the operational integrity of tools, systems, and infrastructure, including technical or process changes that could impact application services.

What You’ll Bring

• A passion for excellence in delivery of service to customers and colleagues alike.
• A drive to improve operational processes and procedures.
• Strong familiarity with a broad range of technologies: Windows/Linux, multi‑tier web applications, middleware (web/app servers, containers, message queues, etc.), containers, databases, networking, Citrix/VDI, etc.
• Strong affinity to automate repetitive tasks, lean out processes that drive down outages and deliver quick results.
• Familiarity with public & private cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), VMware virtualized systems environments.
• Knowledge of source control management and CI/CD.
• Good understanding of application architecture, databases, and knowledge of Java, .NET, Python preferred.
• Networking architecture understanding (F5, HAProxy).

The Solera group is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws.