DevOps Engineer

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The Dev Ops Lead is primarily responsible for designing and implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and security practices that support the automatic deployment and security scanning of applications and infrastructure as code for both on-premise and cloud-based environments. You will lead the automation of cloud resources including Container Orchestration to optimize our development workflows, enhance deployment efficiencies, and incorporate the appropriate security tooling as part of this process.

The ideal candidate must have experience with Azure cloud platform services, Dev Ops practices such as build/release management, secure practices such as automating security processes in CI/CD pipeline, and general automation
. Additionally, the Dev Ops Lead must have experience collaborating, guiding, and mentoring technical professionals with these practices.

• Partner with development to design and configure automated build, release, and infrastructure provisioning pipelines.
• Integrate security best practices into CI/CD pipelines, including code scanning, static analysis, and vulnerability assessments, to ensure secure and rapid application delivery.
• Lead the transition to container-based deployments, managing orchestration strategies, and ensuring seamless migration for application teams.
• Develop and maintain modular IaC templates to ensure consistent, repeatable, and secure deployment of resources.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, to align Dev Ops efforts with development goals.
• Produce metrics and dashboards to provide qualitative and quantitative measures of quality, security, accessibility, and progress.
• Advocate for software engineering practices such as feature branching, unit testing, code reviews, full build testing, quality engineering practices, and requirements capturing techniques to the teams to improve end-to-end secure delivery practices.
• Identity and implement automation that will improve the performance and reliability of the pipelines including scripting, integration, problem resolution, and configuration management.
• Partner with development and operations teams to facilitate practical automation solutions and custom modules.
• Troubleshoot automation issues and engage resources to find practical solutions that move projects forward in a timely manner.
• Be a trusted automation and tooling advisor for Dev Ops initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, and insights,
• Document information in the form of knowledge based technical notes and articles, including support documentation.
• Assist application teams with onboarding to the adopted security tools/technologies.
• Stay current on technological landscape and emerging methodologies sharing best practices amongst teams.
• Evaluate existing processes, identify opportunities, and implement improvements to increase efficiency.
• Train team members in best practices and continuous improvement processes and tools.
• Coordinate with a global team (US and offshore) on technical development.

Qualifications At Ford Direct, we believe in diversity as a strength. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience or background does not precisely match the job description. Candidates who do not meet all listed qualifications may be considered based on the combination of relevant work experience and depth of expertise in job-related skills.

• Hands-on experience building and managing Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Bicep, 7+ years
• Implementing Dev Ops for application teams using Agile, preferably SAFe, development methodology, 10+ years.
• Leading Dev Ops CI tools 5+ years
• Experience with code scanning tools and implementation as part of build process, 3+ years.
• Configuration management tools, 3+ years
• Containerization and container management experience, 3+ years.
• Experience working on Agile teams.
• Version control management tools, 2 years.
• Proven experience provisioning cloud Infrastructure using Infrastructure as code template-based…