The Staff DevOps Software Engineer role involves designing and developing infrastructure solutions, managing CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring team members, while ensuring operational excellence in cloud environments.
            Description
Remote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Sunnyvale, Austin, Warren] you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
GM is committed to Zero Emission, Zero Crashes and Zero Congestion vision.
The Team
The Engagement Services DevOps team plays a pivotal role in delivering seamless, reliable, and innovative digital experiences to millions of GM customers. As part of the broader software engineering organization, this group is responsible for the development, deployment, and operational excellence of several high-impact, customer-facing platforms.
What You'll Do
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
Additional Information:
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
    Remote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of [Sunnyvale, Austin, Warren] you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.
GM is committed to Zero Emission, Zero Crashes and Zero Congestion vision.
The Team
The Engagement Services DevOps team plays a pivotal role in delivering seamless, reliable, and innovative digital experiences to millions of GM customers. As part of the broader software engineering organization, this group is responsible for the development, deployment, and operational excellence of several high-impact, customer-facing platforms.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop solutions for infrastructure and automations.
- Provide standards and expertise for development processes.
- Act as a tech lead and mentor to the global DevOps group
- Maintain and enhance Dockerized based environments.
- Develop & Optimize CI/CD pipelines.
- Support the group with packaging, customizing and automation efforts.
- Streamline dev. process to simple, elegant process which can run on multiple platforms.
- Support the group developers with environment queries, automation requirements, platform solutions.
- Optimize branching strategies and Git operations for traceability and ease of use for the developers.
- Manage system configuration using configuration management tools.
- Contribute to cloud solutions for the group.
- Maintain the groups storage resources and services.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or comparable experience
- 10-12 years of experience in a DevOps role.
- Proven experience in supporting CI/CD, Build systems, Automations, Infrastructure.
- Experience with cloud IaC - Terraform /Pulumi/Crossplane.
- Experience administrating K8s.
- Experience and knowledge in Git, REST API, Jenkins/Tekton/Github Actions, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, Monitoring, CMake.
- Knowledge with the following development languages - Groovy, Python, Bash, Golang.
- High level of Linux server administration skills.
- High level of oral and written communication skills
- High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively in a global organization
Additional Information:
This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.
About GM
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
Why Join Us
We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Total Rewards | Benefits Overview
From day one, we're looking out for your well-being-at work and at home-so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources.
Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire.
Accommodations
General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us [email protected] or call us at 800-865-7580. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Top Skills
Argocd
Bash
Cmake
Crossplane
Docker
Git
Github Actions
Go
Groovy
Helm
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Linux
Monitoring
Pulumi
Python
Rest Api
Tekton
Terraform
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