Staff DevOps Engineer

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with local and national workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies nationally.

Our Engineering and Analytics Team Members utilize the latest technology to develop, monitor, and maintain complex practices that help optimize our success. Our Team Members value being challenged, are encouraged to express their ideas, and have the flexibility to enjoy work life balance. We build intrinsic value by partnering with all functions of our business to support their success and make strategic business decisions. We focus on professional development and continuous improvement while enjoying a casual work environment and Great Place to Work culture!

As a DevOps engineer, you know the challenges that software engineers face and ultimately, know how help teams with their software development lifecycle. We're looking for a DevOps development engineer like you to support our products as they modernize their SDLC and meet their most challenging missions.

As a DevOps engineer at Credit Acceptance, you'll work closely with cloud architects and engineers to build automation solutions to SDLC challenges. You'll grow your skills within a DevOps framework to establish and create SDLC solutions to further our products.

With access to our internal sandbox, there's no better place to develop your skills and explore different ways of solving DevOps automation challenges. Whether developing, deploying, or managing crucial code, compute, and network components, here, you'll have the latest technology and brightest engineering teammates at your fingertips.

Join us, and start changing lives.

Outcomes and Activities:

• This position will work from home; occasional planned travel to an assigned Southfield, Michigan office location may be required. However, this position is permitted to work at a Southfield, Michigan office location if requested by the team member.
• Defines and adheres to standards, procedures and methodologies for effective operation, performance, security, and recovery of automation systems
• Accelerates Engineering projects and maintenance by automating manual processes
• Supports engineering teams to define, estimate, and implement requirements for new system development
• Participates in strategic efforts to reduce the impact of application issues
• Leads efforts to debug the problems which arise in production
• Assists with unit-tests and validates acceptance criteria
• Develops tools to satisfy customer (application delivery, middleware, database) requirements
• Supports integration with engineering tools
• Ensures automated systems are highly available and fault tolerant
• Monitors daily systems and processes for successful completion
• Trains and supports team members on DevOps best practices
• Contributes to team's sprint commitments and actively participate in our Agile practices
• Performs capacity planning and monitoring and predicts system growth trends
• Develops and maintains documentation

Competencies: The following items detail how you will be successful in this role.

• Impact Analysis: Understand the rationale behind and how changes impact the enterprise and/or applications and across the technical ecosystem.
• Solution Design: Ability to translate high level requirements to create and implement designs that meet the needs of the customer, are technically sound, maintainable and cost effective. Ability to identify missing or ambiguous requirements. Ability to design at both high and low levels of abstraction, understand complex requirements and translate into understandable solutions. Ability to accurately estimate based on requirements.
• Technical Domain: Have an understanding of the technical domain, including the application architecture, design and data of the application they support and systems to which it interfaces.
• Testing Techniques: Understand the range of testing techniques available well enough to select the most effective test procedures.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years of experience in DevOps or related field (such as software development engineering)
• Expert experience managing build and continuous integration tools (such as Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Bamboo)
• Expert experience managing release or continuous delivery tools (such as Jenkins, Nexus Repository, Blue Ocean, Bitbucket Pipelines, TFS Release Manager)
• Expert experience as a software development engineer
• Master of Database & DB Change Management Tools like Liquibase, SQL Server, Oracle.
• Strong experience with application server technologies (such as Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere, Glassfish, Oracle Application Server)

Preferred:

• 8 years of software engineering experience
• Experience with Linux and/or Windows environments and commands
• Experience with test automation frameworks (JUnit API, Robot, Cucumber, SpecFlow, etc.)
• Experience configuring and maintaining database versioning tools (Red Gate, Datical, etc.)
• Experience with application & infrastructure monitoring for performance and availability (DynaTrace, SPLUNK, etc.)
• Experience managing source code solutions & branching strategies (BitBucket, GitHub Enterprise, Subversion, Team Foundation Version Control, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing automation enabled solutions
• Experience within a Java / C environment
• Experience working with cloud-based technologies, such as Azure DevOps or AWS
• Experience with automation technologies and scripting languages like Ansible, Powershell, Python, Groovy, Node, Go

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability to innovate, design, and build DevOps solutions for the enterprise. Have a continuous learning mindset by integrating code quality, security, and automated testing capabilities; remove technical impediments.
• Be a strong collaborator with product owners and understand needs to deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact and support the goals.
• Be a change agent that introduces DevOps standard methodologies and automation
• Ability to automate unit and integration test cases, solve problems, and add new value with automation.
• Experience and understanding of how to connect the work being done and how it drives business value
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Ability to understand complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

Targeted Compensation: $125,000 - $160,000 base salary an annual bonus plan

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Our Company Values:

To be successful in this role, Team Members need to be:

• Positive by maintaining resiliency and focusing on solutions
• Respectful by collaborating and actively listening
• Insightful by cultivating innovation, accumulating business and role specific knowledge, demonstrating self-awareness and making quality decisions
• Direct by effectively communicating and conveying courage
• Earnest by taking accountability, applying feedback and effectively planning and priority setting

Expectations:

• Remain compliant with our policies processes and legal guidelines
• All other duties as assigned
• Attendance as required by department

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Required degrees must have been earned at institutions of Higher Education which are accredited by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or equivalent.

Credit Acceptance is dedicated to providing an inclusive environment for all. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and value a culturally diverse workforce. We believe in ensuring all team members demonstrate mutual respect for one another. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected characteristics like age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

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