IT Manager

Summary: AutoZone’s SRE team is looking for an IT manager specializing in for our SRE infrastructure team. The team’s mission is to partner with engineering teams to define, measure, and improve value delivery by delivering tooling and process support to a platform-centric deployment model. We are looking for a new team member with experience with SRE and DevOps. Our environment is primarily distributed systems across 6000+ stores, on-premise ‘above store’ applications, and a growing number of use cases in the public cloud. This role will assist with the transformational work to move into a true platform-centric infrastructure model for both our legacy and new applications primarily focused on the distributed systems in stores. Responsibilities: Participate in any and potentially all roles of the systems development life cycle. Roles may vary by project and assignment. This may include, but not limited to: Lead team to plan architecture and design for next generation platforms, automation, and tooling to support infrastructure and application lifecycle. Lead team to build, maintain, and manage automation and self-service tools and processes. Lead team to develop and follow SRE best practices. Accurate work planning and execution. Mentor and grow team members and other more junior AutoZoners. Collaborate with other IT leaders across the organization. Develop and execute short-term and long-term strategic plans and roadmaps. Expected to contribute at a technical level as well as managerial, should have a deep understanding of technology. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field Typically requires seven to ten years’ experience based on consistently demonstrated capabilities. Demonstrated experience in IT leadership Must have experience working hands on in a linux environment Must have demonstrable experience in at least one programming language Experience with DevOps or platform tools such as kubernetes, ansible, terraform, CI/CD components, and/or cloud technologies is preferred Must have experience working on a collaborative team using version control, preferably git Good problem solving, technical, and analytical skills