Sr. Staff Engineering Operations Engineer

Sonatus is a well-funded, fast-paced, and fast-growing company whose technologies and software help automakers build dynamic software-defined vehicles. With two generations of solutions already on the road with a top global OEM, our vehicle and cloud software solutions are at the forefront of the digital transformation of vehicles. The Sonatus team is a talented and diverse collection of technology and automotive specialists hailing from many of the most prominent companies in their respective industries.

Sonatus is a leader in providing technologies and software to global OEMs to build software-defined vehicles. As a part of a cross-functional team that is responsible for the full software development life cycle, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and products, from conception to deployment.

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Engineering Operations engineer to help lead and optimize our processes as well as on-prem and SaaS infrastructure, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and management of our infrastructure and tools, playing a key role in maintaining a high-availability environment for our applications and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate and streamline our operations, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to the overall architecture and strategy of our on-prem and SaaS infrastructure. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Evaluate, acquire, configure, operate, maintain engineering applications, tools and utilities, on-prem and in hybrid or full cloud environments.
• Administer Jenkins or similar solutions.
• Setup and manage compute, network, storage in coordination with IT.
• Set up and administer OSS vulnerability and static-analysis tools, perform scans, and produce customer-facing reports, with the goal of increasing automation.
• Develop and enhance tools to increase engineering productivity.
• Manage engineering tools such as Jira, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, web services / dashboards, MySQL databases, Jama, etc.
• Perform OSS vulnerability and static-analysis scanning, produce customer-facing reports, with the goal of increasing automation.
• Develop tools for automation in Python, PHP, bash.
• Collaborate with TPMs, operations, development and QA to assess requirements for engineering to work smoothly, efficiently, and within budget.
• Think outside the box and from a customer's perspective on how to improve existing processes and come up with innovative solutions to challenges.
• Champion and implement engineering policies, rules, protocols to produce a (security-)compliant work environment across our engineering organization.
• Document changes, new tools & processes, and create dashboards and reports.
• Ensure continuous compliance with ISO standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, etc.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (MS preferred) in Computer Science, Computer engineering, Electrical engineering, or other related fields with 15+ years of working experience in EngOps/DevOps/IT, networking, cybersecurity, or a similar field.
• Excellent foundational knowledge of Linux / Unix system environment including the underlying hardware it runs on.
• Solid experience with Ethernet networking (plus troubleshooting), file systems, storage, logging, monitoring, tracing and alert.
• Proficient in shell scripting, Python and/or PHP.
• Excellent working knowledge of git / GitHub.
• Solid understanding and experience with GitHub Enterprise and Jira administration.
• Strong expertise in administering Jenkins or another CI/CD/CT platform.
• Foundation in C/C++.
• Experience with Static Analysis tools such as Coverity, Code Sonar, or similar.
• Experience with OSS vulnerability scanners, such as Black Duck, Snyk, or similar.
• Familiarity with build systems (e.g. make, cmake, Bazel).
• Experience with application-level virtualization through tools like Docker, and machine virtualization via hypervisors such as KVM, VMWare, or similar.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technology such as Ansible.
• Experience with ISO27001 and ISO9001.
• Excellent problem-solving, technical, and analytical abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with cloud cost management and optimization strategies.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry).

Consider being part of the Sonatus team and receive the following:

Benefit Offerings includes:

- Competitive compensation and equity program

- Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

- Flexible and Dependent Care Expense program

- Retirement plan (401k)

- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)

- Unlimited paid time off per year

- Hybrid office work-arrangement/flexibility

Perk Offerings include:

- Complimentary lunches, snacks and beverages during on-site working days

- Wellness benefit allowances (towards gym membership and fitness programs)

- Internet reimbursement

- Computer Accessory Allowance

Employee Engagement Offerings:

- Departmental team building and outings

- Employee Referral Program

- Culture/Employee Satisfaction Surveys - Feedback matters!

- Peer Award Program (monthly)

- Innovative Award Program (annual)

Sonatus is a fast-paced and innovative company and are seeking team members who are passionate about making a difference. If you are ready to take your career to the next level, we highly encourage you to apply.

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