Technical Anchor - DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

Position Overview

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world – together. At Ford, we are all part of something bigger than ourselves. Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest Dev Sec Ops and Platform Engineering methodologies.
• Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, DAST, SAST & FOSSA.
• Possess strong experience using GCP-specific services like Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations Suite, Service Mesh, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, and Alloy DB among other managed services.
• Possess experience with Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, and Kubernetes Cluster.
• Possess expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting, and ArgoCD.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of Dev Sec Ops and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization.
• Possess experience in implementing auto scaling, disaster recovery, high availability, multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations – an 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.
• Possess experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) like Backstage to address developer productivity.
• Strategize and work with leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture and IT Operations to make a significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform.
• Possess expertise with patch management and APM tools like Dynatrace/App Dynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK for monitoring and alerting.
• Possess experience in Elastic Search service offerings in Kubernetes environments.
• Possess experience in Cloud Fin Ops to optimize cloud infrastructure consumption cost.
• Responsible for overall infrastructure architecture and the evolution of next-generation platforms. Research existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in a futuristic infrastructure architecture landscape.
• Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate, and deploy cloud infrastructure.
• Implement AIOps in the Platform Engineering space to enhance Developer Experience.
• Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the infrastructure layer, recommending solutions to improve overall quality and system performance.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for high availability and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Analyze kernel logs, network statistics, APM metrics, and application logs to troubleshoot resource hotspots, API latency, and platform health issues.
• Investigate and resolve complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP related to scaling and performance.
• Build automation for repeatable Dev Sec Ops tasks and improve software engineers’ productivity.
• Mentor team members to help them scale and reach their next performance level.
• Provide thought leadership around Shift Left (quality, security, OSS use) and Shift Right (platform engineering) practices to drive adoption on the eCommerce Platform.