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Technical Architect Platform Engineering @ Ford

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 Technical Architect Platform Engineering

Job Description

Short Description

  • Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB and other managed services. Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster etc. Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting and ArgoCD Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization This is an individual contributor role with technology leadership as a core competency

Description

  • Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies
  • Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, DAST, SAST & FOSSA
  • Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Service Mesh, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB and other managed services.
  • Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster etc.
  • Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting and ArgoCD
  • Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization
  • Experience in implementing Auto scaling, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is 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
  • Experience with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like Backstage and address developer productivity
  • Strategize & work with senior leaders across Fords Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform
  • Expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for monitoring and alerting.
  • Experience in Elastic Search service offerings in K8s.
  • Experience in Cloud FinOps to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape
  • Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure
  • Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience
  • Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios
  • Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health
  • Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance
  • Build Automation for repeatable DevSecOps tasks and help with improving Software Engineers productivity
  • Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level
  • Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform

Qualifications

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
    Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation
    Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams
    Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization inside and outside of the technology and software organization
    Ability to lead through change
    Experience with the following: Microservices architectures , Micro Front-end Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Docker, DevSecOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing.
    Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.
    Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies.
    Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE and Release Mgmt. processes

Job Classification

Industry: Automobile
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: DevOps
Role: DevOps Consultant / Architect
Employement Type: Full time

Contact Details:

Company: Ford
Location(s): Bengaluru

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