About Our Team:

DRIVIN is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for our Chicago office or to work remotely with our team. The primary responsibility of the DevOps Engineer is to implement, maintain, and continuously improve the systems and process necessary to allow us to develop and deploy software faster and improve the performance and resiliency of our systems. The DRIVIN tech stack consists of AWS services (ECS, S3, Redshift, Postgres RDS, SNS, SQS), Jenkins build pipelines, Terraform, Python, Bash, GO, Vault, Packer, git/github and Docker.

About Our Candidate:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a devops engineer, system administrator, and/or software developer

• Experience setting up an automated build and delivery pipeline preferably with Jenkins and AWS services

• Experience automating processes using Terraform/Packer.

• Experience with Bash/Python/GO or other programming language

• Experience with building docker images and creating Jenkinsfiles

• Good communication skills

• 3+ years experience using git, cli proficiency preferred

• 3+ years experience with AWS

• Prefer bachelor's degree from four-year College or university in Computer Science, Technology or related field 

What You Will Be Doing:

• Implement and maintain tools to further automate build, release packaging, deployment and configuration management processes.

• Work with agile teams to develop continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.

• Setup and maintain development, stage, and production environments

• Coach fellow team members and develop tools for team use

• Provide input to development teams from a devops perspective

• Advocate for good practices across the organization

• Implement and maintain system health and performance monitors and alerts

• Collaborate with development teams to resolve system health and performance issues and risks

• Develop scripts to automate application deployments and infrastructure.

• Recommend and implement security controls

• Weekly on-call rotation

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Ownership mentality with capability to drive forward solutions on own initiative

• Passion for keeping up to speed with the latest software tools and methodologies

• Ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage expectations

• Ability to challenge status-quo and drive change

• Flexible & easily adaptable to change

• Familiarity with software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure quality outcomes

• Experience working within short development cycles using agile (Scrum) methods

• Experience with AWS services

• Ability to collaborate across IT disciplines

Who We Are:

KAR Global powers the world’s most trusted automotive marketplaces through innovation, technology and people. Our end-to-end platform serves the remarketing needs of the world’s largest OEMs, dealers, fleet operators, rental companies and financial institutions.

We’re a technology company delivering next generation tools to accelerate and simplify remarketing.

We’re an analytics company leveraging data to inform and empower our customers with clear, actionable insights.

And we’re an auction company powering the world’s most advanced and integrated mobile, digital and physical auction marketplaces.

DRIVIN, a KAR Global brand, is comprised of a team that is passionate about the intersection of data, technology and cars. As the Chicago-based innovation and data science hub for KAR, this team of data scientists and analysts creates new products to help power the company’s physical, online, and digital/mobile automotive auction marketplaces. DRIVIN was founded in 2015 and joined the KAR family of companies in April 2017. Since then, DRIVIN has expanded its capabilities across the organization, shifting from a transactional marketplace to a full-service data and analytics platform. The DRIVIN data engine is unmatched, fueling powerful insights and recommendations that help KAR’s customers optimize risk, price and automotive inventory.

We want you to be well and thrive. Our benefits package includes:

• Competitive compensation

• Insurance coverage that includes medical, dental, vision and life insurance

• Flexible spending account

• Wellness program

• 401(k) with employer match

• Employee stock purchase program

• Paid holidays and generous paid time off

• Paid parental leave

• Learning and development resources