LEAD SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER

CAI Cox Automotive Corp Svcs., LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)

Retirement planning (401(k))

Paid days off

Job summary

CAI Cox Automotive Corp Svcs., LLC is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer in Austin, Texas. This role involves implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation while maintaining observability practices to enhance DevOps tooling.

The successful candidate will engage with cross-functional teams and promote best practices in engineering. Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and at least 6 years of relevant experience, with telecommuting options available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6 years of experience with quality frameworks and CI/CD.
• 6 years of experience in AWS and observability platforms.

Responsibilities

• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation.
• Develop and maintain observability practices.
• Manage runbooks, games days, and incident response workflows.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Automation

Observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, Datadog)

AWS

Programming (C#, Java, Python)

AppSec tools (Veracode, CloudSploit, Data Theorem)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s or Ph.D. in relevant fields (alternative qualifications)

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Job description

Overview

Lead Site Reliability Engineer positions offered by Cox Automotive Corporate Services, LLC (Austin, Texas). Lead the implementation of IaC and automation with unit testing, quality gates, AppSec tooling, automated functional testing, and performance testing. Develop and maintain observability practices, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems. Create and manage runbooks, games days, post‑mortems, and incident response workflows. Engage with cross‑functional teams that design, develop, and implement enterprise‑scalable cloud‑based solutions that improve SRE/DevOps best practices and tooling. Play a role in establishing best practices, supporting communities of practice, and promoting adoption within the engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation, including unit testing, quality gates, and AppSec tooling.
• Develop and maintain observability practices (SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems).
• Create and manage runbooks, games days, post‑mortems, and incident response workflows.
• Engage with cross‑functional teams to design, develop, and implement enterprise‑scalable cloud‑based solutions that improve SRE/DevOps best practices and tooling.
• Promote tooling adoption and support communities of practice within engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or related field and 6 years of experience implementing quality frameworks with quality gates within a CI/CD framework.
• 6 years of experience working with observability platforms (New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, or Datadog).
• 6 years of experience working in AWS and CI/CD tooling and capabilities.
• 6 years of experience using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• 6 years of experience in one of the following programming languages: C#, Java, or Python.
• 6 years of experience in AppSec tools (Veracode, CloudSploit, or Data Theorem).
• Alternative qualifications: 4 years of experience (same as above) with a master’s or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields; or 1 year of experience (same as above) with a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in the aforementioned fields.

Location & Remote Work

Position reports to Austin, TX office. Telecommuting permitted in accordance with company policy, but applicants must live within commuting distance of the office.

Benefits

Benefits 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).

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.