Platform Engineering Architect

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies along with AI Agentic Automation Skills

• Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, 42crunch, Astra & FOSSA

• Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB and other managed services.

• Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster, OpenShift etc. 

• Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting, NX Cloud, Helmcharts and ArgoCD

• Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps, Observability and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization

• Experience in implementing Auto scaling, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is added advantage.

• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the development and deployment of products on the eCommerce foundation layer

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements, and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications

• Work with Product teams to understand their pain points and increase the Developer Experience through Platform Engineering Capabilities

• Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform

• Expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk for monitoring and alerting.

• Experience in Cloud FinOps to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost

• Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape

• Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure

• Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience

• Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems

• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios

• Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health

• Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance

• Build Automation for repeatable DevSecOps tasks and help with improving Software Engineers’ productivity

• Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level

• Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform

Bachelors or Master of Engineering

Platform Engineering Experience

10-15 Years Experience