Ford Motor Company

Platform Engineering Architect

Ford Motor Company  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

  • Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies along with AI Agentic Automation Skills

  • Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, 42crunch, Astra & FOSSA

  • Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB and other managed services.

  • Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster, OpenShift etc.

  • Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting, NX Cloud, Helmcharts and ArgoCD

  • Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps, Observability and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization

  • 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

  • Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform

  • Expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk for monitoring and alerting.

  • Experience in Cloud FinOps 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 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 DevSecOps 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

Bachelors or Master of Engineering

Platform Engineering Experience

10-15 Years Experience

Ford Motor Company

About Ford Motor Company

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us.

Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.

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Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Dearborn, Michigan
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
ford.com
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