Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Azure, Chef, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenShift, Prometheus, Python, Terraform, VMware, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dearborn, United States

About the role

• DevOps / Site Reliability Platform Engineer transforming Ford's infrastructure solutions for next-gen applications. Focusing on Kubernetes and virtualization technologies within a geographically distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade and maintain OpenShift Virtualization Specific Operators
• Manage OpenShift Virtualization Namespaces/Permissions
• Develop automation related to Provisioning, Day2, Decommissioning and Migration
• Collaborate with team members regarding code standards and assignments where needed.
• Participate in code reviews and technical designs.

Requirements

• *Technical Skills Must Have:*
• **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• (3+ years) Strong Linux knowledge on multiple platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE).
• (1+ years) Experience in use of Kubevirt and Kubernetes.
• (1+ years) Experience in use of virtualization and container technologies.
• (1+ years) In-depth use of Cloud-based PaaS and IaaS. GCP and Azure experience preferred.
• (2+ years) Experience with GIT and CI/CD pipelines using Tekton, Argo, GitHub Actions, and/or Jenkins.
• (1+ years) Experience with and Prometheus/Garfana
• Demonstrable proficiency in Kustomize/Helm
• Demonstrable proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language. Go, python, and/or Bourne Shell preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of RESTFUL API concepts and JSON formats.
• Working knowledge of application development architectures, and web deployment methodologies.
• This position requires a wide breadth of skills and experience in-order to develop new application hosting platforms and strategies.
• *Technical Skills Nice to Have:*
• ** • **Experience with IT Automation products such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.
• ** • **Experience with VMWare ESX and vCenter.
• ** • **Experience with network load balancers (SLB, GSLB).
• *Supervisory Skills Required:*
• ** • **Work effectively in a team environment. Team leader capability desired.
• ** • **Pairing with team members occasionally required.
• ** • **Primary team is located locally with other individuals distributed globally.
• *Other:*
• ** • **Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)
• ** • **Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations across the global.
• ** • **Must a self-starter, capable of working independently and within a team with minimum supervision.
• ** • **Must have good communication skills.****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

• 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.