Kubernetes Engineer

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

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.

This is a highly technical position perfect for someone with a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure who is passionate and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Why Join Us…

• Work with cutting-edge technologies and drive innovation.
• Collaborate with top engineering talent in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.

• 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, and ensuring optimal utilization. 
• Financial Management: Manage 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.

• 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!

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 childcare 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

This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 and ranges from $85,400-$192,900.    
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

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