DevOps Manager

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challengeand Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

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Join us in reimagining the Road Ahead in Automotive Commerce. Our Websites Engineering Team is embarking on a transformation journey, building innovative services and redefining how we deliver value to our customers. As a DevOps Manager,  you will help revitalize our customer-facing tooling across our platform with a comprehensive technical strategy to simplify and amplify these user experiences and the capabilities they enable. This is an exceptional opportunity to influence the future of our platform and drive meaningful change at scale to make an impact within the automotive industry.

Our DevOps Manager will lead a team of skilled engineers responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our infrastructure across all environments. This role will provide people leadership, technical direction, and process discipline to modernize our deployment practices, balancing legacy systems with cloud-native architecture. 

The Manager, Software Engineering - DevOps; will own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, incident response processes, observability tooling, and infrastructure standards to support fast, safe, and sustainable software delivery. In partnership with engineering, security, and product stakeholders, they’ll align infrastructure work with strategic goals, enforce operational excellence, and manage infrastructure cost optimization. This role is both tactical and strategic—mentoring engineers, enforcing accountability, and leading critical reliability efforts that power the broader organization.

Beyond the technical side, you will have the opportunity to lead and mentor a talented group of engineers.  Your role will put you at the heart of our technology and business strategy, as you'll be collaborating closely with application engineers, product managers, and security/compliance stakeholders.

Responsibilities Include

• People management for 5-8 ICs: set expectations, provide development opportunities, coaching, conduct 1:1s, hold team members accountable for results.

• Drive the reliability, scalability, and security of our infrastructure across development, staging, and production environments.  

• Support the modernization of deployment practices across hybrid environments, balancing legacy infrastructure and evolving modern systems.

• Own and improve deployment pipelines, management workflows, and observability tooling to support fast and reliable software delivery.

• Define and enforce standards, including configuration management, incident response, SLOs.

• Manage infrastructure cost optimization and work with our Cloud Team on capacity planning and cloud resource allocation.

• Collaborate closely with application engineers, product managers, and security/compliance stakeholders to align infrastructure delivery with roadmap and regulatory needs.

• Coordinate on-call rotations and lead incident response; serve as on-call manager in the team on call rotation and postmortem activities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles, including 3+ years managing a DevOps team.

• Deep understanding of cloud architecture (AWS preferred), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).

• Extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines.

• Track record of building repeatable, scalable infrastructure practices that reduce toil and increase reliability.

• Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with developers, QA, security, and product teams.

• Ability to collaborate effectively, provide constructive feedback, and resolve conflicts.

• Experience working closely with stakeholders in nontechnical business roles.

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize tasks, allocate resources, and manage project timelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing hybrid environments or supporting platform modernization from legacy systems.

• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

• Working knowledge of cost management tools and practices in cloud environments.

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

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