Kubernetes Engineer

Kubernetes Engineer

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Kubernetes Engineer to join our OpenShift/Kubernetes Platform team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of our cloud-native strategy, collaborating with a talented team of engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability, and performance of our container platforms. Your contributions will be crucial in building, maintaining, and optimizing our OpenShift clusters hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, ensuring a stable and efficient environment for our development teams. This highly technical individual contributor position is perfect for someone with a strong background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure who is passionate about building robust, scalable, and efficient container platforms.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career and help us define tomorrow's transportation.

Platform Engineering & Operations

Contribute to the architecture, engineering, and day-to-day operations of our OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure, focusing on high availability, security, and scalability.

Service Reliability

Participate in defining, monitoring, and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTx) to ensure the platform consistently meets the needs of our internal customers.

Automation and Efficiency

Develop and implement automation solutions to streamline operations, reduce manual tasks, and improve overall efficiency. This includes contributing to and enforcing best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Technical Collaboration

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to contribute to the platform's technical direction and roadmap, aligning its capabilities with business needs and user requirements.

Incident Response

Participate in troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues, and contribute to post-mortem analyses to prevent future occurrences.

Tooling & Development

Design, develop, and maintain tools and services to enhance the reliability, observability, and manageability of our Kubernetes environment.

Proven experience (typically 5+ years) as a Kubernetes Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or DevOps Engineer with a strong focus on container orchestration.

Deep expertise with Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, including cluster operations, networking, storage, and security.

Strong hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.

Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.

Experience with scripting and programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tool development.

Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, networking principles, and security best practices.

Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).

Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team environment.

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! 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 changemaker, 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 ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

This position is a salary grade 5 - 8.

Visa sponsorship is provided for this specific role. Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

Requisition ID: 56351