Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Ford Motor Company

We seek a highly motivated, technology-focused individual passionate about improving and simplifying Ford’s highly complex global infrastructure environment across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations in all major regions. As a Cloud Infrastructure Architect, you will provide day-to-day responsibility with hands-on design and development wherever applicable for key cloud-native infrastructure, computing, database, network, storage, and interoperability initiatives. As a key member of our Enterprise Technology Group, you’ll play a critical part in crafting the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to bring to bear advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience, and improve people’s lives, this is your opportunity. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help build vehicles that are as inquisitive as you are. We seek a highly motivated, technology-focused individual passionate about improving and simplifying Ford’s highly complex global infrastructure environment across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations in all major regions.

Responsibilities

• You will work with Technology and Software Platform teams to provide solutions for cloud infrastructure across the Ford Enterprise, including hosting, computing, databases, and networks.
• Define, analyze, assemble, and integrate components to deliver infrastructure patterns for the business, including consideration for platforms, software, availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Experienced with OpenShift/GKE and hands-on with GCP services and hands-on with GCP services, including Containers, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Big Query, and Cloud Storage.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure to support our applications and services with high performance, scalable and secure cloud native applications on GCP.
• Hands-on experience with application development experience leveraging technologies such as Java, Springboot, Python, etc.
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate GCP services into our overall IT architecture.
• Stay current with GCP technologies, and best practices and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Develop, advise and document GCP infrastructure and deployment processes along with experience on REST API, Agile tools, DevOps, Source control and versioning tools (Git, JIRA) and build CI/CD pipelines using CI/CD methodologies leveraging Jenkins, containers, Kubernetes etc.
• Work with development teams to implement best practices for deploying and managing applications on GCP.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of GCP resources. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to GCP infrastructure and services wherever needed.
• Supports the development of the technical design and documentation. Maintain open channels of communication by providing relevant information, technical expertise, and recommended best practices and patterns.
• Hands on experience with public cloud services offering (covering Compute, Storage, Network, Web, Cognitive, AI, Functions, IAM, etc.).
• Build big data solutions, ensure the guardrails, security and compliance of our GCP environment, Strong knowledge of Cloud security standards and principles including Identity and Access management.
• Work on Serverless design, implementing Container As A Service (CaaS), Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) Security Compliance requirements, monitoring Infrastructure (IaaS), Network management, storage management and remediation automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in IT or Technology-related disciplines with progressively increasing responsibility.
• 5+ Experience working with cloud native GCP and hybrid cloud environments such as researching the best use of cloud products and the ecosystem, designing, developing, implementing, and managing Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
• 3+ hands-on experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• 3+ years’ experience with application development using technologies such as Java, Springboot, Python, etc.
• 2+ years’ experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Datacenter experience
• Linux/Windows experience

Key skills/competency

• GCP Cloud Architecture
• Hybrid Cloud Solutions
• Kubernetes Engine
• Terraform IaC
• Python Scripting
• Java/Springboot Development
• CI/CD Pipelines
• DevOps Practices
• Cloud Security (IAM)
• Big Data Solutions