The Staff DevOps Engineer will design and manage cloud infrastructure, automate CI/CD pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and enhance system reliability. Responsibilities include monitoring solutions, backend service development, and collaborating across teams to improve deployment and observability.
Description
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin, TX three times per week.
About the team
We are the Brands & Marketing Software Engineering Team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. As most customers first step in their car buying journey, our team collaborates closely with marketing leaders from across GM. The goal? Build easy to use tooling to create engaging and innovative web experiences that scale to millions of visitors each month, worldwide, while providing meaningful value through a seamless customer experience.
Our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the next generation of innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers.
The Role
We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer with strong technical leadership skills to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and automation for our web-based applications. You will lead efforts to improve deployment pipelines, observability, and system reliability while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.
What You'll Do
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
Additional Information:
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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.
Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin, TX three times per week.
About the team
We are the Brands & Marketing Software Engineering Team within the Digital Products Engineering (DPE) organization at GM. As most customers first step in their car buying journey, our team collaborates closely with marketing leaders from across GM. The goal? Build easy to use tooling to create engaging and innovative web experiences that scale to millions of visitors each month, worldwide, while providing meaningful value through a seamless customer experience.
Our mission is to rapidly and relentlessly ideate, iterate, and launch the next generation of innovative solutions to connect GM with current and future customers. Our team comprises industry-leading software engineers, who utilize a variety of innovative development methodologies and technologies to achieve breakthrough results, drive innovation, and delight customers.
The Role
We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer with strong technical leadership skills to design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure and automation for our web-based applications. You will lead efforts to improve deployment pipelines, observability, and system reliability while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.
What You'll Do
- Architect and manage cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred).
- Design, implement, and automate CI/CD pipelines for web applications, microservices, and SaaS platforms.
- Manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters and containerized workloads.
- Automate infrastructure changes using Terraform, Helm, and related IaC tools.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (DataDog) for both internal and SaaS systems)
- Develop backend services and APIs to support system integrations and workflow automation
- Collaborate with our vendors to optimize performance, reliability, and integration with GM systems.
- Lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers on DevOps principles.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies to enhance GM's DevOps ecosystem.
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles .
- Expertise with CI/CD automation, container orchestration, and cloud platforms (Azure required).
- Expertise with cloud automation technology such as Helm, Terraform, and/or ArgoCD
- 5+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
- Experience working with multi-tier production software systems utilizing and implementing HTTP APIs (REST, GraphQL) and Content Management Systems, like Adobe Experience Manager
- Deep understanding of web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS), caching strategies, CDN integration, and load balancing.
- Proficiency in backend programming languages (Java with Spring Boot, Python, or Node.js)
- Enthusiastic about the opportunity of impacting the engineering culture from the bottom up
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 10+ years in software engineering with deep DevOps expertise.
- 7+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, documentation and design of new and existing systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
- Experience with multi-cloud environments and advanced observability practices.
- Familiarity with API-driven architectures and SaaS integration patterns.
Additional Information:
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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
Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service
Datadog
Helm
Java
Node.js
Python
Spring Boot
Terraform
Similar Jobs at General Motors
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
Lead content management engineering efforts at GM, architecting solutions, mentoring engineers, and creating scalable web experiences with modern technologies.
Top Skills:
.NetAdobe Experience ManagerCSSGraphQLHTMLJavaJavaScriptLiferayPHPRestSitecoreUmbraco
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop mobile applications using React Native, manage the app development lifecycle, and ensure high-quality code and user experience while collaborating with teams.
Top Skills:
React Native
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
The Senior Software Engineer will design, automate, and maintain cloud platforms for CI/CD processes, collaborating across teams to meet technical requirements.
Top Skills:
AWSAzureCC++DockerGithub ActionsJavaJenkinsKubernetesPythonQuarkusSystemc
What you need to know about the NYC Tech Scene
As the undisputed financial capital of the world, New York City is an epicenter of startup funding activity. The city has a thriving fintech scene and is a major player in verticals ranging from AI to biotech, cybersecurity and digital media. It also has universities like NYU, Columbia and Cornell Tech attracting students and researchers from across the globe, providing the ecosystem with a constant influx of world-class talent. And its East Coast location and three international airports make it a perfect spot for European companies establishing a foothold in the United States.
Key Facts About NYC Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 549,200; 6% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Capgemini, Bloomberg, IBM, Spotify
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, Fintech
- Funding Landscape: $25.5 billion in venture capital funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Greycroft, Thrive Capital, Union Square Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Tiger Global Management, Tribeca Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Two Sigma Ventures
- Research Centers and Universities: Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, CUNY, AI Now Institute, Flatiron Institute, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, NASA Space Radiation Laboratory
