Senior DevOps Engineer, DriveLink

Plano, TX | Hybrid Option 

12 Month+ Contract Opportunity 

Our Toyota Connected DriveLink team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to create, maintain, support, and improve complex cloud operations for cutting edge microservice based platforms. On this team you will solve complex problems and work alongside talented DevOps Engineers, Software Engineers, Agile Delivery Leads, and Technical Product Managers who have a passion for driving innovation in mobility, safety, and convenience services. We love people who think big and like to get their hands dirty to help us build exciting initiatives. 

Responsibilities: 

• Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining for readability, maintainability, and efficiency. 

• Perform advanced troubleshooting in scripts with multiple integration points. 

• Lead or participate in code reviews to improve overall script quality starting to see constructive feedback. 

• Write clean, reusable, and high-quality IaC to solve novel or complex problems and lead advanced IaC reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and providing guidance during the merge review process. 

• Design patterns, practices, and platforms that enable developers to integrate and deliver software components efficiently. 

• Build and improve the CI/CD process, ensuring a fully functional software ecosystem. 

• Independently manage virtual servers, containers, and orchestration platforms. 

• Identify and develop local and cross team / org automation capabilities for products that impact key business SLAs and KPIs. 

• Implement security measures to protect data integrity and confidentiality across pipelines. 

• Lead the advanced troubleshooting and resolution of complex or novel system issues, including analyzing logs, performance data, and system behavior. 

• Define and enforce consistent branching strategies to facilitate parallel development, code isolation, and seamless integration across team(s). 

• Regularly review and analyze system performance metrics, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve speed and responsiveness. 

• Handle multi region or multi cloud network management, including zero trust networks and virtual private networks. 

• Assist in canary deployments. 

• Perform chaos engineering with networking to test resilience. 

• Develop and implement strategies for network redundancy and disaster recovery. 

• Ensure that network infrastructure can withstand and recover from failures/disasters with minimal impact. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of production experience working as a DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer 

• DevOps expertise to efficiently provide valuable insights and solve challenging problems with minimal supervision or escalation and advance processes that are shared among other team members or groups 

• Expertise in Terraform to create, modify, and manage infrastructure configurations or IaC templates 

• Expertise in containerization technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) to build, package, and deploy optimized container images 

• Experience with bash and/or python scripting 

• Advanced proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines that span with increasing complexity and integrating across multiple environments 

• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS) to optimize cloud resource utilization and costs throughout product lifecycle 

• Proficiency in cloud architecture and design patterns to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud architectures and apply best practices for cloud deployments 

• Expertise with a scripting language to develop custom tools and scripts for DevOps workflows or integrate with APIs 

• Expertise in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts 

• Versed within InfoSec policies and procedures to adhere to security standards/regulations and identify gaps in security architecture 

• Expertise in monitoring and analytics platforms to set up monitors, alerts, and diagnostic tools for proactive issue detection, root cause analysis, and performance optimization across distributed systems 

• Expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting system architecture components (e.g., databases, caching layers, load-balancing) to ensure peak performance, including profiling 

• Expertise in cloud networking concepts and troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve network connectivity issues, manage performance, and implement optimization strategies 

• Understanding of cloud billing and cost management tools to recognize total costs 

• Experience in leading initiatives under direction 

• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision making skills 

• Ability to apply systems thinking to understand interdependencies and design solutions that achieve results 

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies, programming practices, patterns, and methods 

• Experience mentoring, providing technical guidance, and training more junior team members 

• Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks/assignments 

• Organized and detail-oriented 

• Ability to develop healthy working relationships and collaborate with peers and leaders 

• Exhibits integrity and high standards in work quality 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Values diversity and differences amongst individuals in interactions 

Excited about this opportunity, but don't meet 100% of the qualifications? We’d still love for you to apply! Toyota Connected is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where unique experiences are valued, and everyone can contribute. You may just be the right candidate for this, or other Toyota Connected opportunities.  

Location:  

This position is based in Plano, Texas. Toyota Connected encourages all employees to live within a reasonable commuting distance of their assigned work location for Hybrid work.   

To save time applying, Toyota Connected does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position currently.  

What’s in it for you? 

• Annual Patent-a-thons and Hackathons to embrace your superior creative thinking ability. 

• Free catered lunches when working onsite. We try to keep it healthy, but Fridays are “cheat” days, so you can get your carbs on! 

• Two fully stocked Nespresso bars for your coffee and tea fixes. 

• No dress code! Come as you are. We know the smart people we hire don’t need to be told what to wear. 

• Free covered garage parking to shield your vehicle from those sneaky storms and to protect your buns from the Texas sun. 

Who Are We?  

Toyota Connected was established in 2016 to infuse the power of big data and cloud intelligence into all aspects of the mobility experience so that driving a Toyota or Lexus is more personal, intuitive, and safe. We create and enable technologies that delight, simplify, and connect the lives of those who use our products. We believe this mobility revolution will empower our customers to use their vehicles in an array of exciting new ways. We support, celebrate, and thrive on the opportunity to provide Mobility for All.  
  
Making a connected life a more human experience takes humans from all walks of life. Toyota Connected celebrates and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces you.  

We are committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process by providing reasonable accommodations as necessary for persons with disabilities or those affected by pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions. If you need to request an accommodation, please reach out to your Recruiter who will connect you with an HR Business Partner to discuss your requested accommodation. We only share the candidate information obtained through this process as necessary to fulfill our reasonable accommodation obligations and strive to create an unbiased and equitable experience for all.