Job Description

Position Overview

Cars Commerce is seeking a DevOps Manager to lead a team of skilled engineers in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of their infrastructure. This role involves revitalizing customer-facing tooling across the platform with a comprehensive technical strategy to simplify and amplify user experiences and their capabilities. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to influence the future of the platform and drive meaningful change at scale within the automotive industry.

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

[Not specified]

Salary

[Not specified]

About Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we are dedicated to simplifying every aspect of car buying and selling. We strive to connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure, and drive local automotive retail. Our offerings include the No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, and the new Cars Commerce Media Network. Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

Our Values:

• Rise Together: Putting people at the center of everything we do.
• Open to All: Encouraging open-minded communication and valuing diverse thinking.
• Caring to Challenge & Taking Ownership: Fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment.
• Doing the Right Thing: Maintaining integrity, even when it's difficult.

Cars Commerce has been recognized as a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, highlighting our commitment to employee well-being, including quality of pay, benefits, and work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• People Management: Lead and mentor a team of 5-8 individual contributors, setting expectations, providing development opportunities, coaching, conducting 1:1s, and holding team members accountable for results.
• Infrastructure Ownership: Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, incident response processes, observability tooling, and infrastructure standards to support fast, safe, and sustainable software delivery.
• Strategic Alignment: Partner with engineering, security, and product stakeholders to align infrastructure work with strategic goals.
• Operational Excellence: Enforce operational excellence and manage infrastructure cost optimization.
• Reliability Efforts: Lead critical reliability efforts that power the broader organization.
• Modernization: Provide people leadership, technical direction, and process discipline to modernize deployment practices, balancing legacy systems with cloud-native architecture.

Requirements

• [Not specified]

Application Instructions

• [Onsite interviews may be required]