Hybrid SRE Cloud Engineer

at Ford Motor Company

• Job title: SRE Cloud Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, HDFS, Java, JavaScript, Kafka, Kubernetes, NFS, Node.js, Prometheus, Python, RabbitMQ, Terraform, Yarn, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chennai, India

About the role

• Cloud Engineer developing and managing cloud infrastructure solutions for Ford Credit Services. Collaborating with engineering teams to optimize high-performance cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Design and implement sustainable cloud and platform services.
• Build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure.
• Manage hosting external containers in Private cloud.
• 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, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.

Requirements

• Proven work experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments.
• Proven work experience in Docker/Kubernetes (image building, k8s schedule)
• Experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.
• Proven working experience in onboarding and troubleshooting Cloud Services.
• Proven work experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.
• Proven work experience in writing custom terraform providers/plug-ins with Sentinel Policy as Code
• Professional Certification is an advantage
• Public Cloud >> GCP is a good to have.
• Strong knowledge in Github, DevOps (Cloud Build is an advantage)
• Should be proficient in scripting and coding, that include traditional languages like Python, PowerShell, GoLang,Java, JS and Node.js.
• Proven working experience in Messaging Middleware - Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ
• Proven working experience in API gateway, Apigee is an advantage.
• Proven working experience in API development, REST.
• Proven working experience in Sec and IAM, SSL/TLS, OAuth and JWT.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in Grafana and Prometheus micro libraries.
• Exposure to Cloud Monitoring and logging.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
• Experience with automation tools should be a priority
• Previous success in technical engineering
• Must have > 5 overall experience
• Must have >3 years of experience in public cloud
• Must have >3 years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure provisioning
• Must have >3 years of experience in Cloud Engineering
• Must have >3 years of coding/automation experience(with Python/golang/shell)