Site Reliability Engineer - 2085918

Hybrid Position

Position Description:

We have a mix of critical and non-critical plant floor applications that are responsible for producing vehicles. This also includes powertrains and stamped components to meet global production needs. The technology is located physically in 30+ plants throughout the world. Our systems schedule, build, manage inventory, notify, and monitor plant floor information and operations. This global product suite has employees in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and South America that interface and interact with global users daily. The product team is disrupting ourselves by modernizing everywhere & simplifying everything through a re-engineering and new development effort to use the latest technologies, methods and tools to bring innovation at market speed to the manufacturing organization. If you are in IT and looking to gain product and produces knowledge in one of Ford's core business pillars, look no further. Our suite of production applications run critical operations and deliver bottom line value.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding / documenting the deployment process
• Working with PDO and Plant IT teams to continually improve deployment and test plans globally
• Working with global teams to document issues / concerns related to development and deployment activities
• Developing or configuration of in house tools and applications
• Establishing process for gathering, assessing and improving portfolio health related to number of software versions, database versions, number of changes etc.
• Outlining improvement opportunities and working with cross-functional teams to deliver them. - Working outside of normal days shift hours and some travel may be required.

Qualifications:

• Motivated and self-starter
• Software Development, entry level or academic experience of 1yr
• Works well in a diverse global team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Common Tools, MS Office, (Word, Excel, Outlook...)

Skills:

• General understanding of MS Windows Server 2012-2016 OS and 2012-2016 MS SQL Databases
• Ability to multitask by working with multiple, initiatives
• Capable of managing work with limited supervision.
• Programming with tools such as Java, Java Script, SQL and, Power Shell experience is nice to have
• Monitoring Tools such as Dynatrace, Whats UP Gold and Splunk

Skills Required:

• HW/SW Installation
• SQL
• Technical Communication
• Support Problem Tracking
• Application Support

Skills Preferred:

• Linux
• Windows Servers

Experience Required:

• 1 coding language or framework.
• 4+ years in IT
• 3+ years in support/incident management

Experience Preferred:

• 1+ yr RedHat Openshift
• 3+ MS SQL/Oracle DB
• 2+ yr Redhat Linux OS

Education Required:

• Bachelors Degree

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consis