Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: South Bend, Indiana (On-Site)

Salary: $120,000

Tire Rack is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior DevOps 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 DevOps Engineer partners closely with Software Development, Infrastructure, Database, and Information Security teams to build and support enterprise application platforms, including tools such as Profound, GoAnywhere, 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 GoAnywhere.

Implement and maintain secure DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps 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 DevOps, 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.

GitHub 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

Python

Bash

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)

Configuration management

Automation playbooks and workflows

Infrastructure-as-Code principles

Inventory and environment management

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

DB2 operations and migrations

New Relic

Grafana

Log aggregation and monitoring platforms

Performance metrics and reporting

Git

Git Submodules

Artifact repositories

Registry solutions

Secrets management platforms

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent professional experience.

Relevant industry certifications are a plus.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll play a critical role in shaping the future of Tire Rack's technology platforms. You'll work alongside talented engineers and technology professionals to modernize infrastructure, improve software delivery, and build scalable solutions that support one of the industry's most trusted brands.

Workdays: Monday - Friday

Occasional evenings and weekends may be required to support deployments, maintenance activities, and critical business needs.

Work Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Additional hours may be necessary based on project requirements and operational support needs.

You will accrue PTO on the last day of each month, for a total of sixteen (16) days per calendar year. Additional days are earned after four years of full-time service per the policy outlined in our employee handbook (maximum 26 days).

You will receive one (1) business day of regular pay for each holiday for which the company closes. The company currently closes for New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

You will be eligible for health insurance coverage on the first day following the completion of your first thirty (30) days of full-time employment.

Tire Rack also offers voluntary dental, vision, life and AD&D, and disability benefits, which you will be eligible to participate in after thirty (30) days of full-time employment.

You will also be eligible to participate in the company's 401(k) plan upon reaching age 21 and completing 1,000 hours of service within the 12-month time-period following your date of hire. Your entry date will be the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the date you satisfy both the age 21 and the hours-of-service eligibility requirements. The company will contribute $1.00 in your name for each $1.00 that you contribute to the Plan, up to a maximum of 6% of the employee's eligible compensation. The company's contribution fully vests after three years of full-time employment.

The employee wellness program's mission is to establish and maintain a workplace culture that supports the health and positive well-being of all company employees. You will have the opportunity to participate in many events and activities to help you achieve your personal well-being goals.

The core of the wellness program consists of periodic on-site biometric screenings, Employee Assistance Program, Take60 lunch and learn sessions, discounted gym memberships, and volunteer opportunities to give back. Access to program information is provided on our internal wellness website, private Facebook group, and wellness bulletin boards.