Job Description
The Ford Credit Developer Experience team is looking for a motivated, innovative cloud engineer to assist in the modernization effort of Ford Credit. This role will cover aspects of Dev Ops, SRE, software development and recommending tooling/solutioning that will improve the lives of developers and engineers within Ford Credit. **
In this position…**
We’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and Dev Ops Engineers to empower our users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. We are currently seeking a public cloud experienced engineer for planning, designing and implementing next generation cloud infrastructure solutions. The cloud engineer will be a part of the Ford Credit Developer Experience team and will require a strong knowledge of application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, automation, maintenance, and Service Reliability Improvements.
Specifically, we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction. _**
This is a remote role within the USA!
_ Responsibilities**
What you'll do...
- Design, automate and manage a highly available and scalable cloud deployment that allows development teams to deploy and run their services.
- Collaborating with engineering and Architects teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions, also leveraging scalability, high-performance and security.
- Modernize existing on-prem solution and improving existing systems.
- Extensively automated deployments and managed applications in GCP.
- Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
- Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to identify optimization strategies, help develop self-healing capabilities.
- Experience in developing a strong observability capabilities.
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
Qualifications
You'll have...
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
- 2+ years of work experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments.
- Professional Certification is an advantage.
- GCP experience is preferred.
- 2+ years of work experience in Docker/Kubernetes (image building, k8s schedule).
- 2+ years of work experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.
- 1+ years of experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.
Even better, you may have...
- Proven work experience in writing custom terraform providers/plug-ins with Policy as Code
- Strong knowledge in Github, DevOps (Tekton is an advantage).
- Should be proficient in scripting and coding, that include traditional languages like Python, GoLang,Java, JS and Node.js.
- Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in Grafana and Prometheus micro libraries.
- Exposure to Cloud Monitoring and logging.
- Experience with automation tools should be a priority.
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, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here :
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Employees located in the SE Michigan area will be required to work in the office three days a week in a hybrid work environment.
Remote employees will also be considered for this position.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
