Description
We are seeking an expert technical leader to drive the Ford Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform, hosting OpenShift Virtualization (OSV), responsible for building, operating, and evolving secure, scalable, and automated Kubernetes infrastructure primarily on-premise.
In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of a unified, self-service Kubernetes platform that empowers Ford development teams to efficiently deploy and manage production-grade container clusters hosting a combination of containers and virtualized machines.
You will shape the future of Ford’s cloud-native infrastructure strategy, fostering innovation, optimizing operational excellence, and enabling seamless developer experience through industry-leading container orchestration and automation practices.
You will work hand-in-hand with the GCP focused Container as a Service group.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Team Management: Lead and inspire the Kubernetes Platform Services team focused on delivering secure, scalable, and automated container orchestration at Ford.
- Technical Architecture and Oversight: Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters, ensuring seamless integration across Ford’s on-premise environments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Enablement: Partner deeply with application developers, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams to understand needs and provide expert Kubernetes guidance and troubleshooting support.
- Innovation, Standardization, and Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of cutting-edge Kubernetes developments and cloud-native best practices.
- Developer Experience: Focus on developer/consumption experience as a first-class citizen through simplification of environment provisioning and application deployment.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / IT Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Extensive Kubernetes Expertise: Proven experience managing, deploying, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments, ideally across hybrid cloud and on-premises data centers.
- Cloud Platform Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of one or more public cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure) including container native services, networking, IAM, and storage integrations.
- Experience with Service Mesh Technologies: Hands-on experience with Istio, Linkerd, or other service mesh platforms to enhance security, observability, and traffic management.
- Strong Background in Monitoring & Observability Tools: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Dynatrace/Datadog, ELK stack, or Google Stackdriver for end-to-end observability and proactive incident detection.
- Experience Leading Large-Scale Automation Initiatives: Past success automating infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks using advanced CI/CD tooling integrated with Kubernetes platforms.
- Infrastructure Automation and CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Kustomize), Kubernetes operators, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines for containerized applications.
- Security and Compliance: Solid understanding of cloud-native security best practices, container security, and compliance frameworks relevant to enterprise IT environments
- Strong Stakeholder Engagement: Demonstrated ability influencing at senior management levels and driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform standards and best practices.
Benefits:
- 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.