Role: Senior DevOps Engineer/Technical Software Engineer
Location: Austin, TX
Must be local to Austin, TX or willing to relocate from day 1 - requires some on site work as frequently, as needed, or desired for the entire assignment.
Duration: Long term
Rate: Market

• We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join the DevOps team.
• This is a significant part of the ongoing transformation of vehicles from being mainly hardware-based to a software-centric electronic device on wheels.
• Ultifi is a new software platform that spans between the Vehicle, the Back Office and cloud services, providing a simple, yet highly scalable and capable framework for extending Vehicle services and applications.
• Ultifi is part of SDV - 'Software Defined Vehicle' group which is utilizing cutting-edge architecture in developing a new intelligent vehicle, whose features and functions are primarily enabled through software.

Responsibilities:
• Define the development workflow processes for products which involve complex solutions for multiple development teams (geographically distributed) and complex configurations.
• Advocate the methodology, Configuration and Support of the different ALM pillars
• (Requirement Management, Architecture, Development, Deployment, Test Management and SWBI)
• Define, architect, develop and deploy Ci/CD processes for supporting the product line Ci/CD pipelines (Jenkins/ Tekton)
• Collaborate with different Ci/CD teams around the globe for streamlining work across groups.
• Continuously improve and deploy new technologies to support the fast-paced business changes.
• Administer the deployed services, provide support for various users.
• Practice building solutions to scale and support growth.
• Consult and Support the group engineers working methodologies, across the SDLC.

Skills and Qualifications
• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related degree
• Minimum of 6 years of recent hands-on Devops experience, working in a team.
• Hands-on expertise practicing CD using one of the commercial cloud providers
• Practical Kubernetes working configuration and debugging experience
• Knowledge in cross compiling build systems like maven /gradle /buildroot /android aosp build environments.
• Extensive knowledge in bash, make, scripting languages, REST API.
• Proven experience working with Jenkins or a similar CI tool
• High level of Linux server administration skills
• High level of verbal and written communication skills
• High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively in a global organization
• Willing to travel abroad from time to time
• Support of production deployment system in a commercial cloud - advantage