Lead Devops Engineer - Roadster

24 Sep 2024

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Power the PossibilitiesThe CDK Global technology team is looking for collaborative innovators who are passionate about making their mark on emerging enterprise software products. We're building and developing cloud technology for the automotive retail industrythat will change the landscape for automotive dealers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the customers they serve.

Be Part of Something BiggerEach year, more than three percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) is attributed to the auto industry, which flows through our customer, the auto dealer. It's time you joined an evolving marketplace where research and developmentinvestment is measured in the tens of billions. It's time you were a part of something bigger.

We're expanding our workforce - engineers, architects, developers and more - onboarding early adopters who can optimize, pivot and keep pace with ever-evolving development roadmaps and applications.

Join Our TeamGrowth potential, flexibility and material impact on the success and quality of a next-gen, enterprise software product make CDK an excellent choice for those who thrive in challenging, fast-paced engineering environments.The possibilities for impact are endless. We have exceptional opportunities to evolve our industry by driving change through new technology.

If you're ready for high-impact, you're ready for CDK.

Roadster is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer, who will be responsible for building out and maintaining our ops infrastructure as we grow. We currently serve 1000's of dealerships in 6 countries around the world, and our business is growing fast. You will have a lead role in defining and implementing how we continue to scale up our platform and meet our performance, availability and security goals. You will also have a primary role in determining how we meet SOC2 compliance requirements over the coming year, such as adopting an Infrastructure as Code toolset and coalescing our access to production systems to use SSO.

We currently deploy our apps on Heroku, and foresee staying with that choice until scale or price dictates we move to native AWS or similar. Our stack consists of Rails, VueJS, Cloudflare, Postgres, Elastic and Redis. We have a small engineering team, and our approach is centered on building tools and automation for our ops and other business processes.

This role also has the opportunity to expand into contributing to our platform: You could help with non-ops feature work as time allows, such as internal admin tools, back-end integrations with new data feeds or APIs, or DB optimization for our core product or data warehouse.

Impact:Enable Roadster to continue to scale (e.g., building out an additional data center for better DR posture, leveraging additional Cloudflare security features, upgrading existing services for greater reliability,).Raise the bar on our tools and automation, building fault-tolerant networking and service architectures.

Qualifications:8+ years of engineering and Unix cloud-based ops experience. Able to own all aspects of infrastructure rollout, contribute to decisions on architecture and best practices.Experience with all fundamental ops areas: DBs, networking/SSL, app servers, security, monitoring, alerts, Solid programming skills (Ruby or Python preferred).Comfortable in a fast-moving environment, taking initiative and making an impact. Nice to have:Heroku experienceExperience measuring and tuning app or service performanceExperience building internal or externally facing product featuresExperience with enterprise-level compliance procedures.

CDK Global knows you have passions outside of work. You have family, friends, sporting events, and lots of things going on. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to not only take care of you but your family as well. All of our benefits are effective the first day of employment including 401K matching, paid time off to re-energize, donate your time to volunteer in your community, and tuition reimbursement to name a few.

At CDK, we pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce. We value and celebrate the uniqueness of individuals and the different perspectives they provide. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, or protected veteran status.