Senior Platform Engineer

Cox Automotive seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and optimize highly available cloud-native platforms supporting our automotive and media solutions. You'll architect scalable services, automate infrastructure, and improve reliability for products like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book. Partner with cross-functional teams to implement CI/CD, observability, and security best practices. You'll mentor engineers, drive platform standards, and champion performance, resiliency, and cost optimization in a people-first, inclusive, and innovative culture with strong growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native platform architectures.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based environments and containerized services.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code for repeatable, automated provisioning.
• Implement and refine CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and quality.
• Own observability, including logging, metrics, and alerting for platform services.
• Collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams on platform standards.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cloud cost across environments.
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production incidents and root causes.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering best practices.

Required Skills

• Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Cloud
• Formation)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/Git
• Hub Actions/Azure Dev
• Ops)
• Linux systems administration
• SRE/observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog)
• Microservices and APIs
• Networking and security fundamentals
• Scripting (Python/Bash)
• Relational/No
• SQL databases