Senior DevOps Engineer, Labs

Our Toyota Connected Labs team is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to create, maintain, support, and improve complex cloud operations for cutting edge microservice based platforms. Ideal candidates will apply their knowledge in a highly energized, fast‑paced, and innovative environment while working on Toyota Connected products.

• Lead initiatives including defining project objectives, developing project schedules, preparing cost estimates, allocating/forecasting resources, and ensuring timely delivery under the direction of Manager/Product Manager.
• Independently write and maintain complex automation scripts, refining 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.
• Lead and facilitate technical discussions, providing insights and recommendations based on Dev Ops principles.
• Coach more junior Dev Ops Engineers through targeted feedback and guidance to improve technical skills, overcome challenges, and achieve specific goals.

• 5+ years of production experience working as a Dev Ops Engineer or Software Engineer
• Dev Ops 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
• 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 Dev Ops workflows or integrate with APIs
• Expertise in version control systems to perform branching, merging, and resolving merge conflicts
• Versed within Info Sec 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…