Description
At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow’s transportation.
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.
Responsibilities
Provide expert technical guidance to application development teams concerning matters of application containerization, building, deploying, running and monitoring Cloud Native, legacy and COTS applications in Ford’s Container-based platforms (Kubernetes and GCP Cloud Run).
- Work with other teams to evaluate and adopt new container, cloud and Kubernetes related technologies
- Develop detailed guides, patterns, videos, workshops, sample code, reference CI/CD pipelines and utilities for the Ford Software Development community
- Identify and solve complex production and CI/CD pipeline issues, and dive deeply into application code
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Applied Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation
- 5 years of experience with: Developing Cloud Native applications and applications written in Spring Boot and Java EE
- 4 years of experience with: Running applications in and deploying applications to Red Hat OpenShift, GKE or other Kubernetes environments or Knative environments including GCP Cloud Run, Developing and creating CI/CD pipelines with either Tekton or Jenkins, Performing application containerization with tools including Docker, Buildah and Podman, Performing Linux administration and shell scripting
- 3 years of experience with: Creating technical guides, patterns and learning materials intended for use by readers inexperienced with application containerization and Kubernetes
- 2 years of experience with: Integrating applications with monitoring tools including Dynatrace, Fluent Bit, Splunk, Prometheus or Grafana
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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