Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: South Bend, IN (On-Site)
Department: Information Technology
- Software Development

Tire Rack is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Dev Ops Engineer to help advance the reliability, scalability, automation, and security of our software delivery and infrastructure operations.

This role serves as a key technical leader responsible for designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, supporting containerized deployments, automating infrastructure processes, and improving monitoring, release management, and operational reliability across the organization.

The Senior Dev Ops Engineer partners closely with Software Development, Infrastructure, Database, and Information Security teams to build and support enterprise application platforms, including tools such as Profound, Go Anywhere, Spring-based applications, and related systems. This position plays a critical role in reducing manual effort, improving deployment consistency, and ensuring systems remain secure, resilient, and highly available.

At Tire Rack, we operate with the values of IOOGA
- Integrity, Our People, Our Customers, Growth, and Attitude.

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
• Implement and support deployment strategies across containerized and traditional application environments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using scripting, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Git-based workflows.
• Design and manage deployment processes across Development, QA, Staging, and Production environments.
• Evaluate and implement containerization, artifact management, registry solutions, and reusable deployment templates.
• Audit and improve build, release, and deployment processes to enhance reliability, consistency, and efficiency.

• Support containerized platforms and orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes-based environments.
• Diagnose and resolve complex deployment, pipeline, environment, and system issues.
• Improve infrastructure automation, monitoring, release strategies, and operational performance.
• Support distributed deployment architectures, multi-site replication, and service routing strategies.
• Manage and maintain enterprise integrations and agent processing tools, including New Relic and Go Anywhere.

• Implement and maintain secure Dev Ops practices aligned with Tire Rack's IT security standards.
• Manage IAM roles, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, SSL certificates, SSH keys, and access controls.
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to strengthen deployment and infrastructure security.
• Promote secure software delivery practices throughout the development lifecycle.

• Partner with Java, Python, API, database, and infrastructure teams to support reliable software delivery.
• Influence Dev Ops tooling standards, automation practices, and release management strategies.
• Communicate deployment status, technical risks, and process improvements to stakeholders and leadership.
• Lead and support modernization initiatives focused on automation, environment improvements, and operational reliability.
• Estimate effort, technical impact, risks, and resource requirements for Dev Ops projects and infrastructure improvements.
• Participate in support rotations and respond quickly to production incidents to minimize business impact.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Dev Ops, Software Development, Software Testing, or a related enterprise technology environment.
• Strong experience supporting enterprise server, storage, networking, and application platforms.
• Proven success designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

• Git Hub Pipelines
• CI/CD strategy and implementation
• Git branching models
• XML and YAML templating
• SSL certificate management
• Command-line tools and scripting

• Docker or Podman
• Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms
• Microservices deployment patterns