GCP Cloud Architect

GCP Cloud Architect at Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company is seeking a highly motivated, technology-focused individual passionate about improving and simplifying its highly complex global infrastructure environment across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations. As a GCP Cloud Architect, you will provide day-to-day responsibility with hands-on design and development for key cloud-native infrastructure, computing, database, network, storage, and interoperability initiatives. As a critical member of the Enterprise Technology Group, you’ll play a pivotal part in crafting the future of mobility, leveraging advanced technology to redefine transportation, enhance customer experience, and improve lives. Join Ford to challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills in building innovative vehicles.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Technology and Software Platform teams to provide comprehensive cloud infrastructure solutions across the Ford Enterprise, including hosting, computing, databases, and networks.
• Define, analyze, assemble, and integrate components to deliver infrastructure patterns for the business, considering platforms, software, availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Utilize experience with OpenShift/GKE and hands-on GCP services, including Containers, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure to support high-performance, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications on GCP.
• Apply application development experience leveraging technologies such as Java, Springboot, and Python.
• Integrate GCP services into the overall IT architecture through effective collaboration with other teams.
• Stay current with GCP technologies and best practices, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Develop, advise, and document GCP infrastructure and deployment processes, with experience in REST API, Agile tools, DevOps, Source control/versioning tools (Git, JIRA), and building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes.
• Work with development teams to implement best practices for deploying and managing applications on GCP.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of GCP resources, troubleshooting and resolving issues related to GCP infrastructure and services.
• Support the development of technical design and documentation, maintaining open communication channels by providing relevant information, technical expertise, and recommended best practices and patterns.
• Possess hands-on experience with public cloud services offering (covering Compute, Storage, Network, Web, Cognitive, AI, Functions, IAM, etc.).
• Build big data solutions, ensuring guardrails, security, and compliance of the GCP environment, with 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+ years of experience working with cloud-native GCP and hybrid cloud environments, including researching, designing, developing, implementing, and managing Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• 3+ years of experience with application development using technologies such as Java, Springboot, and Python.
• 2+ years of experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Experience with datacenter environments.
• Experience with Linux/Windows operating systems.

Ford encourages applications even if you don't check every box, believing in the value you can bring. As a global company, Ford offers a flexible work-life, including immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage, flexible family care days, paid parental leave, subsidized back-up child care, family building benefits, vehicle discount programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and generous paid time off.

Key skills/competency

• GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Cloud Architecture
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Kubernetes
• BigQuery
• DevOps
• Cloud Security
• Python
• Java
• CI/CD