Engineering Technical Lead, DevOps

About Woven by Toyota Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society. Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all. ========================================================================= TEAM  Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all. We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city. The Engineering Hub Function leads technical cross-functional activities from the entire "Woven City" perspective. Our team, as one of sub-Function of Engineering Hub, supports internal developers in terms of development cycle, release, coordination over several development teams. We make standards, guidelines for the development cycle, and technically lead several teams in order to make synergy over them. We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City. For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/ WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? We are looking for professionals who are passionate about applying driving our Woven City values, supported by the pursuit of safety, quality and agility in software production. You thrive in fast-moving environments and bring creativity and a passion for optimizing and automating processes wherever possible. You strike the right balance between technical expertise and driving business critical cross-functional coordination across engineering teams.  You will be responsible for guiding a collaborative DevOps team in designing, implementing and continuously improving scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and secure delivery practices. You will champion DevSecOps principles, working closely with development teams to understand current practices, to enable the definition and standardization of optimized processes across teams and ensure their contribution to city-wide applications. We are looking for candidates who meet the following criteria: ・Agile Mindset: Ability to apply agile methods and best practices to maximize project speed and meet development teams needs. ・Communication skill: Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to achieve both agility and stability of releases in a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary product releases. ・Technical proficiency: Ability to act as a technical lead for the CI/CD team using software engineering skill and experiences of DevOps RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, standardize, and support implementation of CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams for overall optimization. Provide CI/CD hands-on technical guidance and troubleshooting for internal software development teams. Ensure a robust testing and deploy process by driving the build-out of several types of software deployment environments, defining desired environments and timelines for it aiming to overall optimization.

Promote a quality mindset and a DevOps, Agile culture in the Woven City Management organization. Produce, maintain and advocate for Engineering CI/CD best practices. Drive continuous improvement of processes, ensuring global alignment. Collaborate with engineering, product, security and other stakeholders to address gaps, improve knowledge bases and documentation.

Lead technical issue solving while coordinating balance across stakeholders by working closely across multiple organizations, e.g. development, security, privacy, regulatory, architecture, and compliance teams. Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to solve problems with an automation-first mindset.

Act as a technical lead for the CI/CD team. Inspire, grow and develop DevOps talents while providing vision, setting team direction, and leading effectively through outcomes rather than tasks.

Measure and report on operational metrics, objectives, and key performance indicators to assure the team achieves operational excellence

You are expected to work beyond JD responsibilities whenever possible to help achieve the mission

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience in large-scale software development with technical expertise, especially in large-scale agile projects 

Excellent understanding of modern Software Development practices and frameworks

Fundamental infrastructure knowledge required to manage deployment and development environments (knowledge of cloud platforms and container technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

In-depth knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc., and experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) 

Experience leading software development teams as a technical lead

Numerous experiences improving and problem solving projects based on technical expertise

Experience managing release processes and ability to coordinate to meet project deadlines

Business-level English with experience working in multicultural environments

NICE TO HAVES

Experience as a release train engineer, as well as relevant industry certifications

Extensive experience in design, implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems, particularly Git and GitHub

Comprehensive knowledge of security, privacy, compliance and DevSecOps practices

Problem-solving skills, troubleshooting and effective debugging abilities

Business-level English and Japanese communication, with experience working in multicultural environments

Mindset for ownership, collective growth through collaboration, and a bias for progress

Ability to create abstract representations of complex processes and to drive alignment of roles, responsibilities, and required material and information flow with stakeholders

Solid project management capabilities and ability to influence and drive change across multiple teams