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.

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