Technical Anchor - DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest Dev Sec Ops  and Platform Engineering methodologies
• Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, DAST, SAST & FOSSA
• Possess strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Service Mesh, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, Alloy
  
  DB and other managed services.
• Possess experience with Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster etc.
• Possess expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting and ArgoCD
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of Dev Sec Ops  and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization
• Possess experience in implementing Auto scaling, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is added advantage.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the development and deployment of products on the eCommerce foundation layer
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements, and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications
• Work with Product teams to understand their pain points and increase the Developer Experience through Platform Engineering Capabilities
• Possess experience with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like Backstage and address developer productivity
• Strategize & work with leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform
• Possess expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/App Dynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for monitoring and alerting
• Possess experience in Elastic Search service offerings in K8s
• Possess experience in Cloud Fin Ops to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost

• Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape
• Conduct and perform Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience
• Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios
• Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health
• Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance
• Build Automation for repeatable Dev Sec Ops  tasks and help with improving Software Engineers’ productivity
• Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level
• Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform

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