Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Company Overview

For more than 70 years, TBC Corporation has been a leader in the mobility industry and one of North America’s largest marketers and distributors of automotive replacement tires through wholesale operations. Additionally, TBC responds to the needs of consumers in search of total car care at nearly 470 franchised tire and automotive service centers under the award-winning Big O Tires® brand. TBC is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

With $5 billion in revenue and more than 3,000 employees in the U.S. and Mexico, TBC markets on a wholesale basis to regional tire chains and distributors serving independent tire dealers and with proprietary brands of tires specializing in passenger, commercial, farm and specialty tires. In 2005, TBC Corp. was purchased by Sumitomo Corporation of America (SCOA). SCOA is the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan’s major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. In 2018, Michelin, the largest tire manufacturer in Europe, invested in the company which is now a 50:50, privately held joint venture between Sumitomo and Michelin.

Our values are the foundation of our work, how we interact with each other, and the strategies we employ to fulfill our purpose. These are the practices we use every day – in everything we do:

• Integrity - We act honestly because nothing is more important than our reputation.
• Teamwork - We are better together.
• People-Focused - We put people first – our Associates, customers, franchisees, and partners – and cultivate a respectful, collaborative, and inclusive culture, top to bottom, inside and out.
• Accountability - We own our actions and decisions; we do what we say we are going to do.
• Leave Everything Better - We innovate to improve everything we touch, and we take actions now to protect the future.

Description

The Infrastructure and Applications Engineer is a mid-level individual contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing automation, CI/CD pipelines, and security integration across the company’s infrastructure and application platforms.

This role bridges on-prem infrastructure (VMware, Dell compute/storage, Microsoft platforms, Rubrik) with modern engineering practices, enabling automated provisioning, secure-by-design pipelines, and resilient platform operations.

The position plays a key role in driving automation-first operations, embedding security, improving disaster recovery readiness, and enabling the transition to GCP-centric cloud operations with cost governance.

Job Responsibilities

DevSecOps & Automation Engineering

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for VMware/private cloud and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Standardize deployment patterns to ensure repeatability and consistency.
• Automate provisioning, patching, configuration validation, and scaling.

Platform Integration & Modernization

• Integrate automation across VMware, Microsoft platforms, and Rubrik.
• Enable self-service provisioning with governance.
• Standardize DEV/TEST/PROD environments.

Additional Job Responsibilities

Security Integration

• Embed identity, access, and credential management into pipelines.
• Implement vulnerability scanning and compliance validation.
• Enforce secure baselines and monitoring.

Disaster Recovery & Resilience

• Automate backup validation and recovery workflows using Rubrik.
• Codify disaster recovery procedures into repeatable workflows.
• Improve recovery through dependency-aware sequencing and testing.

Continued Responsibilities

Observability & Reliability

• Integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting into pipelines.
• Enable proactive detection and automated remediation.
• Support incident response with rollback and automation.

Cloud Engineering (GCP-Focused)

• Design automation for GCP (Compute, networking, storage, IAM).
• Support hybrid integration between VMware and GCP.
• Enable workload portability and standardized deployments.

Added Responsibilities

FinOps & Cost Governance

• Provide cost visibility through tagging and instrumentation.
• Support cost allocation and usage tracking.
• Promote cost-aware engineering practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Hands-on experience with VMware, Microsoft platforms, and enterprise backup.
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Deep experience in GCP services and GKE.
• Familiarity with Azure in hybrid environments (secondary only).
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and observability tools.
• Certifications in GCP, DevOps, or security.
• Bilingual in Spanish /English is a plus
• Automation-first mindset
• Strong cross-domain expertise (infra, security, cloud)
• Focus on standardization and repeatability
• Ability to balance speed, security, and reliability

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation
• 401(k) and Roth with company match. Immediate 100% vesting
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision
• Company paid short term disability and employer subsidized long term disability
• Company paid life insurance
• Discounted tire purchasing
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Generous paid vacation and paid time off
• Customizable voluntary benefits
• and More!!!

Mission Critical Competencies

TBC seeks team members who excel in demonstrating our critical competencies to drive organizational capability. In this spirit we view the following as mission critical for this role:

• Strategic Mindset: seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Change Management: effective Sponsorship, Change Agent and influencing skills. Adaptive, agile, flexible, open minded. Proven ability to build cross-functional commitment, lead, simplify and scale complex dynamic organizations through transformational change.