Lead DevOps Engineer

"Join our team and be part of something truly transformational!

We are different.

Under the name of CareGard Warranty Services, Automotive Financial Group (AFG) was founded in 1994. Within the past 30 years, AFG has become a leader in vehicle service contracts and protection products. Through partnerships with car dealerships, finance companies, and automotive manufacturers (OEM), CareGard has redefined the standards of service in the automotive industry. Driven by a profound mission to enhance the automotive landscape, CareGard has tirelessly worked towards nurturing talent and fostering a culture rooted in values of trust and reliability. Today, it stands asa titan among extended warranty providers, celebrated for its exceptional Google ratings and unwavering commitment to excellence.

Excellence is in our DNA.

At CareGard, we arealways looking for the best talent on the planet. Our people have an ownership mentality in everything we do. Weexudeinitiative, accountability, and an unyielding pursuit of excellence. Our culture is built on integrity, innovation, and passion. Together, these values create an atmosphere that allows us to surpass customer expectations and cultivate deep-seatedrelationships built ontrust. As we chart our course through new and existing growth opportunities, we invite those who dare to dream, who are dedicatedto becoming the finest versions of themselves, and whoapproach challenges with a visionary problem-solving mindset to grow with us.

Once in a Lifetime Opportunity.

We are growing every day. Right now, we are looking for the perfect Lead DevOps Engineer to add to our incredible team. In some ways, we are looking for a needle in a haystack. A difference-maker. Someone who is interested in being an impactful part of something bigger than themselves.

Our perfect Lead DevOps Engineer is passionate about servant leadership. They align their personal objectives with team and company goals, creating strong relationships and shared direction. This individual has a forward-looking mindset with a strong sense of responsibility and initiative, making them someone who not only sets ambitious goals but also follows through with discipline and integrity.

What’snext?

Are you the needle in the haystack we are looking for?If so, reach out immediately so we can call off our extensive search.

Top Responsibilities:

• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices – research, test, and execute new techniques that could improve software deployment strategies
• Train and mentor engineering teams on best practices and internal tools built to address automation and security
• Collaborate with the IT and engineering teams to build the strategic direction of the DevOps discipline
• Identify training needs and ensure proper training is developed and provide
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and other necessary tools
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployment of infrastructure and services using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast and reliable delivery of code to production
• Collaborate with development teams to implement deployment strategies, including blue/green and canary releases
• Own and manage the release process and maintain configuration management
• Integrate security best practices into the build and deployment pipelines (DevSecOps)
• Develop and enforce internal standards for development, infrastructure, monitoring and deployment
• Work within the required compliance framework (SOC2)
• Serve as a SME for containerization efforts with Docker, Rancher, K8s, AWS ECS, and AWS ECR
• Manage and maintain observability tools and alerting strategies (Grafana, ELK, PagerDuty, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Participate in and lead incident responseand root cause analysis efforts
  
  

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of DevOps specific roles focusing on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or AWS CodeBuild
• Subject matter expert on security best practices, primarily in the context of a security framework
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using products like AWS ECS
• Experience managing observability stacks, such as Grafana or ELK
• Proven ability to lead projects driving initiatives to completion
• Experience with leading teams
• Able to identify inefficiencies and take actions to implement changes to improve operational performance
• Proficient in managing, supporting, and optimizing complex systems and technologies
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to distill complex technical issues and ideas into simple points, relating them to relevant concepts that your audience will understand and embrace
• Must be a self-motived, results-oriented individual capable of multi-tasking, meeting deadlines, managing uncertainty, and working in a highly collaborative environment
• Must be capable of developing a good rapport with other people in AFG, inspiring trust and confidence from managers, peers, and subordinates
  
  

Benefits offered:

• Nine Paid Holidays
• Education/Licensing assistance
• Paid time off(10 days the first year)
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Employee recognition and company events
  
  

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor work visas.

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