Unknown Company is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Platforms

Credit Acceptance is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer, Developer Platforms to build automation solutions for the software development lifecycle and runtime challenges. This role focuses on defining technical standards, creating reusable 'Golden Path' solutions, and enabling development teams through an Internal Developer Portal and orchestration APIs.

What You'll Do

• Define and adhere to standards, procedures and methodologies for effective operation, performance, security, and recovery of automation systems.
• Lead the technical definition for Developer Platforms spanning local development, Internal Developer portal, Orchestration APIs, and integrations.
• Partner with Platform Engineering leaders to define and drive a technical vision and roadmap.
• Accelerate Engineering projects and maintenance by automating manual processes.
• Support engineering teams to define, estimate, and implement requirements for new system development.
• Participate in strategic efforts to reduce the impact of and recovery time from application issues.
• Lead efforts to debug problems which arise in production.
• Assist with unit-tests and validate acceptance criteria.
• Ensure automated systems are highly available and fault tolerant.
• Monitor both systems and processes daily for successful operation.
• Train and support team members on DevOps and Platform Engineering.
• Contribute to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in Agile practices.
• Perform capacity planning and monitoring and predict system growth trends.
• Develop and maintain documentation.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field such as platform engineering or software engineering.
• Proficient writing code as a software engineer.
• Strong expertise building developer ‘Golden-Paths’ spanning build, test, scan, release and exposing templates in an Internal Developer Portal.
• Strong expertise managing build and continuous integration tools (Github, Github Actions, Argo, HELM and API driven Platform Orchestration).
• Strong expertise managing release or continuous delivery tools (such as Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Blue Ocean, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps).
• Strong experience with DB Ops & DB Change Management Tools like Liquibase, Postgres, Oracle.
• Strong experience with application server technologies (such as Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere, Spring boot, Docker).
• High EQ with the ability to present to leaders and engineers with knowing how to adjust presentation for the proper audience.

Nice to Have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with test automation frameworks.
• Experience with doing API development in support of building Developer Platforms.
• Experience configuring and maintaining database versioning tools (Liquibase, etc.).
• Experience with application & infrastructure monitoring for performance and availability (DynaTrace, Grafana, Open Telemetry, etc.).
• Experience managing source code solutions & branching strategies (GitHub Trunk Based Development, etc.).
• Experience with an object-oriented language (Java, JavaScript, Python).
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies (AWS, etc.).
• Experience working with infrastructure as code and related tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Spacelift, etc.).
• Strong experience with automation technologies and scripting languages like Python, Groovy, Node, Go.
• Experience with SDLC security including Code Quality, Static Code Analysis and being able to automate the scanning and output files in partnership with Security team requirements.

Technical Stack

• CI/CD: Github, Github Actions, Argo, HELM, Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Blue Ocean, Bitbucket Pipelines, Azure DevOps
• Databases & Tools: Liquibase, Postgres, Oracle
• Application Servers & Containers: Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere, Spring boot, Docker
• Monitoring: DynaTrace, Grafana, Open Telemetry
• Source Control: GitHub Trunk Based Development
• Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Groovy, Node, Go
• Cloud & IaC: AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Spacelift

Team & Environment

You will work closely with the development community and other members of Platform Engineering.

Benefits & Compensation

• Compensation range: $140,625 - $206,250 + equity.
• Eligible for an annual variable bonus of cash and equity, between 10-20%.
• 401(K) match
• Adoption assistance
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision
• Many nonstandard benefits

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position based in Southfield, Michigan.

Credit Acceptance is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, criminal history, or any other legally protected characteristic.