DAT DevOps Engineer

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In this position...

Ford’s ADAS Dev Ops Team is looking for a Dev Ops Engineer to help build and operate the platforms and pipelines that support advanced driver‑assistants systems software and tooling.

In this role, you’ll focus on reliable, secure, and scalable CI/CD automation—with an emphasis on Git Hub Actions, large‑scale C/C++ build systems, and Bazel. You’ll partner with software and infrastructure teams to improve build performance, streamline development workflows, and support safety‑critical engineering.

Design, build, and operate enterprise‑scale CI/CD platforms supporting ADAS software development.

Develop, maintain, and optimize Git Hub Actions workflows for C/C++, Python, and multi‑language build pipelines.

Support and improve Bazel‑based build systems, including build performance, caching, and CI integration.

Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Build, maintain, and deploy Docker containers and support Kubernetes‑based workloads.

Partner with software engineers to integrate CI/CD best practices into C/C++ development workflows.

Improve reliability and observability of CI/CD systems through monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Collaborate with cross‑functional ADAS teams to remove Dev Ops, build, and infrastructure bottlenecks.

Implement secure CI/CD practices including secrets management, artifact signing, and access controls.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or related technical field.

2+ years of experience in Dev Ops, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Hands‑on, production experience with Git Hub Actions for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

2+ years of experience with Docker‑based containerization.

2+ years of experience with Linux fundamentals

2+ years of experience with scripting Python

2+ years of experience working with C and/or C++ codebases and build tooling.

Strong communication skills and ability to work across diverse engineering teams.

Experience building CI/CD pipelines for large mono‑repos or multi‑repo environments.

Hands‑on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.

Strong experience supporting Bazel build systems in CI environments.

Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployments and operational patterns.

Experience with build optimization techniques such as remote caching and parallelization in Bazel.

Familiarity with backend services or APIs built in Python (FastAPI, Flask, or Django).

Experience implementing CI/CD observability, metrics, and alerting.

Experience operating workloads on public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

Interest or familiarity with ADAS, embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software.

Experience with self‑hosted Git Hub Actions runners.

Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.

Experience supporting ML or data‑intensive CI workflows.

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 change maker, 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…