Sr Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering)

Job Description

We have a position for a Sr Software Engineer (Site Reliability Engineering) with one of our clients in Atlanta, GA for an initial contract duration of 6 months. No third party candidates considered for this position.

This role is for an opening for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Manheim Logistics SRE team. The SRE team is tasked with designing and maintaining AWS infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Manheim Logistics’ 15+ development teams. The team has currently standardized on a Docker-based infrastructure solution and is adding functionality to support new development team requests and architectural patterns (such as Lambda, Step Functions, Fargate, etc). The SRE team has a strong focus on IaC with Terraform and best practices such as least privilege access, proactive monitoring and alerting, etc. This role will work directly with a release train and help with IaC and SRE activites such as improving monitoring/alerting, defining an error budget, assisting with DevSecOps, etc.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cox Automotive you will:

• Strong automation experience- testing, deploying, monitoring, etc.
• Take complex problems and come up with a technically reasonable solution
• Experience working with and defining SLOs, error budgets, etc. 
• Have innate curiosity about how things work
• Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery & performance
• Design and assist in the setup and maintenance of application monitoring and alerting
• Engage with engineering teams to ensure best practices are implemented
• Improve predictability and reliability of software releases, workflows, and operating software.
• Reduce mean time to recovery (MTTR) by helping troubleshoot, monitor, alert, and automating recovery.
• Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and at least 3-5 years working experience
• Expertise in software development and architecture/solutioning experience 
• Strong background with Terraform
• Experience with Amazon AWS technologies especially: ECS and Lambda
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as: New Relic, Splunk, PagerDuty
• Experience with agile development, continuous integration and automated testing
• Solid written communication, problem solving, and process management skills
• Preferred Skills:
• Broad AWS platform skills including Cognito, WAF, Elasticache (Redis), Elasticsearch, SNS, SQS, S3, Systems Manager
• Experience automating Terraform at scale
• Experience with Database Server infrastructure (RDS, MySQL, Postgres, etc)
• .NET core development experience
• GitHub Actions

 Experience with Github, docker, and Linux adminstration experience