Kubernetes Engineer

Kubernetes Engineer at Ford Motor Company

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Kubernetes Engineer to join our OpenShift/Kubernetes Platform team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of our cloud-native strategy, collaborating with a talented team of engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our container platforms. Your contributions will be crucial in managing our OpenShift clusters hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, ensuring a stable and efficient environment for our development teams.

Responsibilities

• Platform Management: Oversee the architecture, engineering, and day-to-day operations of our OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and scalability.
• Vendor Management: Manage relationship with key technology vendors, negotiating contracts and ensuring optimal utilization.
• Financial Management: Manage budgets and resources effectively ensuring cost-effectiveness and optimal return on investment, prioritize technical debt to mitigate risk and ensure infrastructure health.
• Service Ownership: Take full ownership of the platform's service delivery, including defining, monitoring and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTx) to ensure the platform meets the needs of our internal customers.
• Automation and Efficiency: Drive automation initiatives to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and improve overall efficiency. This includes developing and enforcing best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Strategy and Roadmap: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the platform's strategic direction and roadmap, aligning its capabilities with business needs and user requirements.
• Incident Management: Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues, leading troubleshooting efforts and post-mortem analyses to prevent future occurrences.

Qualifications

• Proven 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or a related technical field.
• Deep technical expertise with container orchestration platforms, specifically OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with managing and operating cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or Azure.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, GitOps).
• Experience in managing relationships with enterprise software vendors.
• A strong understanding of service management principles, including SLAs, SLOs, and incident management.
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

About Us

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow’s transportation.

About The Team

We believe that freedom of movement drives human progress. Ford Information Technology (IT) is shaping the future of mobility by redefining the transportation landscape, enhancing the customer experience and improving people’s lives. Join the Ford family as we change the way the world moves.

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Microsoft Azure
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform
• GitOps
• DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Container Orchestration