# Senior Platform Engineer (OpenShift, Kubernetes & GitOps)

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chennai
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. You will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platform capabilities.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands-on development experience, and expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.

## Responsibilities

- Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters.

- Develop platform capabilities using automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.

- Build integrations between platform services and enterprise systems through APIs and automation frameworks.

- Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.

- Develop and maintain platform components using Go, Python, or equivalent programming languages.

- Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable and resilient cloud-native solutions.

- Implement platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting practices.

- Contribute to platform architecture, security, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives.

- Support microservices-based workloads and distributed systems running on container platforms.

## Qualifications

### Required

- 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure.

- Strong experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), including cluster deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, and automation.

- Proficiency in software development with strong object-oriented programming concepts.

- Hands-on development experience in Go, Python, or a similar programming language.

- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.

- Experience designing and integrating APIs with an API-first engineering approach.

- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing platform solutions as an individual contributor.

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.

- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native design principles.

### Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following:

- Kubernetes Operators and Custom Controllers

- Service Mesh technologies such as Istio

- Observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, or similar tools

- Storage technologies such as Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)

- Secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault

- Hybrid cloud and private cloud environments

- Platform security, governance, and compliance best practices

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- GitOps
- Platform Engineering
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Go
- Python
- CI/CD
- API integration
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes Operators
- Custom Controllers
- Service Mesh technologies
- Istio
- Observability platforms
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Dynatrace
- Ceph
- OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)
- HashiCorp Vault
- Hybrid cloud
- Private cloud environments
- Platform security
- Governance
- Compliance best practices

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