Technical Architect

Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies

Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, DAST, SAST & FOSSA

Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Service Mesh, Anthos, Pub / Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB, Vertex AI, Big Query, Cloud SQL and other managed services.

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

Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting and ArgoCD

Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps 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

Experience with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like Backstage and address developer productivity

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 for monitoring and alerting.

Experience in Elastic Search service offerings in K8s.

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

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science or equivalent

A minimum of 10+ years experience in Cloud Technologies and Platform Engineering

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work effectively in a remote / virtual work setting with other global team members

Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation

Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams

Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization

Ability to lead through change

Experience with the following : Microservices architectures , Micro Front-end Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Docker, DevSecOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and / or performance testing.

Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.

Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies.

Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE and Release Mgmt. processes

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, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here : Benefit Summary ()

This position is a salary grade LL6 .

This position is a range of salary grades LL6.

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Requisition ID : 54630