Kubernetes Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to contribute to the platform's technical direction and roadmap, aligning its capabilities with business needs and user requirements.
- Participate in troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues, and contribute to post-mortem analyses to prevent future occurrences.
- Design, develop, and maintain tools and services to enhance the reliability, observability, and manageability of our Kubernetes environment.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
KubernetesOpenShiftInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsiblePythonGoBashdistributed systemsmicroservices architectures
Soft skills
problem-solvingdebugginganalytical skillscommunicationcollaboration