Senior Software Engineer

Company

Cox Communications, Inc.

Engineering / Product Development

Sr Software Engineer

Individual ContributorHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $97,100.00 - $161,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

• Contribute to the development of internal tools and scripts to improve developer productivity and streamline software engineering processes.

• Serve as a trusted partner, consultant, and trainer for teams on modern DevOps practices and methodologies to accelerate application delivery.

• Design and set up the application delivery lifecycle (CI/CD) for various programming languages.

• Deploy, support, and maintain all production services used across the company, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery strategies.

• Participate in the design and review of new software features, ensuring alignment with DevOps and continuous delivery principles.

• Automate applications and infrastructure deployments on private and public clouds.

• Research, experiment with, and implement the latest technologies and tools to enhance our mission and improve software engineering practices.

• Troubleshoot and optimize CI/CD pipelines, ensuring best practices for code analysis, testing, and coverage.

• Diagnose and troubleshoot cross-functional production service issues, ensuring robust monitoring and observability practices.

• Lead training sessions and presentations to share best practices and technical skills across the organization, fostering a DevOps culture.

• Produce automation scripts to integrate services and increase operational efficiency and maturity.

• Collaborate with software development teams to integrate security into the DevOps pipeline (DevSecOps).

• Provide consultation on setting up testing frameworks, quality assurance best practices, and continuous integration processes in the release pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field

• 3+ years of experience in a DevOps position or comparable engineering role.

• Experience using APIs for automation between services (Python, Groovy, Java, Node.JS).

• Strong experience designing and configuring CI/CD workflows to facilitate high software delivery throughput (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab, Argo).

• Experience with application build tools on various languages (Maven, Gradle, NPM, SBT, Docker, Ansible, Helm, Skaffold).

• Extensive experience with container orchestration and management using Kubernetes and Docker.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (Terraform, Kustomize, Ansible, JobDSL, Jenkinsfile or similar).

• Proficient and solid understanding of Git best practices and workflows.

• Familiarity with strategies for high availability, disaster recovery, and deployment of production environments.

• Proficient in collaboration and communication tools (Jira, Confluence) to support a DevOps culture.

• Experience supporting Agile Scrum/Kanban development teams.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to communicate complex problems to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to work under pressure, reprioritize, and adjust to changes in direction and deadlines.

• Ability to balance multiple high-priority projects and complete them on time with minimal supervision. 

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• Contributes to open-source projects and/or participates in communities.

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.Cox Communications is all about creating moments of real human connection; and for employees, that’s true both in the workplace and in the problems we solve for customers. From building advertising solutions to unleashing IoT technologies to creating an exceptional experience for customers in our retail locations and online, we’re creating a world that is smarter and more connected. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.