Software Developer II, Public Cloud

Company: CarMax
Location: Richmond
Posted on: November 22, 2020

Job Description:

8901 - Corp Office West Crk - 12800 Tuckahoe Creek Parkway, Richmond, Virginia, 23238

CarMax, the way your career should be! ABOUT THIS JOB :

The Software Developer II is responsible for the development, maintenance, and support of software solutions. This position is involved in the complete software development life cycle and is responsible for ensuring that software meets CarMax® quality standards. This position is a key contributor in the software development life-cycle, performing analysis and design, development, and working to achieve project goals. The responsibilities of this position revolve around ownership of assigned programming tasks and software development projects. This includes ensuring that application development efforts consistently meet business requirements, direction, and standards and may include coordinating the tasks of others.

Software Developer II - Technology Operations, Public Cloud

We are looking for a Software Developer to contribute to the iterative evolution of the cloud platform and applications used to manage the platform (Microsoft Azure) through effective solution design, development and deployment leveraging automation whenever possible. Our team is responsible for the cloud platfo rm. We support application teams and business teams to help ensure reliability and resiliency of their systems and of the cloud platform. Our team develops self-service capabilities to enable our internal customers to move quickly and deliver on the needs of the business by building systems that enable cloud capabilities while ensuring CarMax Enterprise standards are maintained. Our time is divided between consulting with our internal customers and continually evolving the platform and its operations using solid engineering and agile practices.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate software development experience and include an infrastructure background with automation experience all preferably in cloud technologies and they must have a strong aptitude to self-learn. The ideal candidate must demonstrate their ability to communicate clearly both written and orally, as well as strong teamwork and show courageous leadership tendencies.

What you will do - Essential Responsibilities

Partner with application teams to resolve support issues

Effectively estimate the time it will take to perform tasks

Identify tasks and impediments, appropriately and effectively escalates through the appropriate channels

Show the ability to apply best practices and design patterns with guidance from others

Able to identify minimal viable technical products that meet business requirements with support from others

Ability to engage in support situation and effectively, efficiently, and quickly drive to a successful resolution

Proven experience leveraging existing software, development of reusable components, and elimination of redundancy in designs

Help develop our self-service and automated tooling to help applications team move fast, yet provide the guardrails to ensure the quality and security of our systems

You will stay on top of industry trends and best practices to continually improve what we do, how we do it and ensure our internal customer experience is always improving

Position Requirements-What we are really looking for:

Experience in infrastructure build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualiza tion and access control

Demonstrable experience with Azure cloud capabilities such as storage, key vaults, virtual networking, web apps AAD, virtual machines, access management and automated deployments

Demonstrable experience with software development preferably with one or more of PowerShell, Python, C#, React

Demonstrable experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Team City or Azure DevOps

Demonstrable experience support Windows or Linux OS

Strong attention to detail, problem investigation and diagnostic skills

Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through clear communication and positive action.

Passion for eliminating repetitive manual processes using automation

Self-Starter and Self-Learner, clearly show the ability to learn new technologies

Position Requirements:

This role requires hands-on work in technologies such as Azure PaaS (Functions, App Services, App Insights, Structured/Unstructured data storage, and others), .NET Core, SQL, TeamCity or Azure DevOps for CI/CD, load testing / automated testing tools, Splunk, and API management systems.

Qualifications and requirements

• At least three years of application development experience

• Experience in some of the following preferred: Microsoft.NET (C#), .NET Core, and the design/creation of REST APIs

• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS preferred

• Understanding of DevOps capabilities such as automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery preferred

• A degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or equivalent experience

About CarMax

CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering the honest, transparent and high-integrity experience customers want and deserve. This innovative thinking around the way cars are bought and sold has helped us become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, with over 200 locations nationwide.

Our amazing team of more than 25,000 associates work together to deliver iconic customer experiences. Along the way, we help every associate grow their career and achieve their best, at work and in their community. We are recognized for our commitment to training and diversity and are one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®.

CarMax is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application .

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