Platform Automation Engineer

Ford Motor Company; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and evolve our enterprise private cloud platform. The role focuses on OpenShift and Kubernetes, automation, and GitOps, with hands-on development in Go or Python to improve developer experience and platform scalability.

You will build operators, APIs, and self-service capabilities while ensuring reliability and observability through monitoring and logging. Hybrid on‑prem and cloud integration is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform/Cloud Eng, SRE, or automation roles.
• Hands-on with OpenShift Container Platform and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing and automating Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Proficient in Go or Python and software engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms across on‑prem and hybrid environments.
• Develop automation via Go, Python, Ansible; adopt IaC practices.
• Build Kubernetes Operators, APIs, and self‑service platform capabilities.
• Implement GitOps workflows using Argo CD and Tekton.
• Develop integrations between platforms via APIs and automation.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and recovery with monitoring and logging.
• Build observability with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging.
• Support containerized/virtualized workloads with OpenShift Virtualization.
• Collaborate with architects and teams; mentor on engineering standards.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Go

Python

GitOps

IaC

Ansible

CI/CD

API development

Distributed systems

Tools

Argo CD

Tekton

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Ansible

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to help design, build, and evolve our enterprise private cloud platform. This role requires expertise in OpenShift and Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, GitOps practices, and software development.

You will contribute to platform capabilities through code-first approaches, building automation, APIs, Kubernetes operators, and self-service capabilities that improve the developer experience and platform scalability.

The ideal candidate combines strong platform engineering expertise with hands‑on development skills in Go, Python, or another modern programming language and is passionate about engineering automation rather than manual operational processes.

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise OpenShift (Kubernetes) platforms across on‑premises and hybrid environments.
• Develop infrastructure automation solutions using Go, Python, Ansible, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes Operators, APIs, and self‑service platform capabilities.
• Implement and manage GitOps deployment workflows using tools such as Argo CD and Tekton.
• Develop integrations between OpenShift and enterprise platforms through APIs and automation frameworks.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and resilience through automated monitoring, alerting, and recovery mechanisms.
• Build observability solutions using Dynatrace, Prometheus, and centralized logging platforms.
• Support containerized and virtualized workloads using OpenShift Virtualization.
• Collaborate with architects, application teams, and platform stakeholders to enhance developer experience and platform adoption.
• Contribute to engineering standards, code quality, automation best practices, and technical mentoring.

Required

• 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Automation.
• Strong hands‑on experience with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing, deploying, upgrading, and automating Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Proficiency in software development using Go or Python.
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented programming principles and software engineering practices.
• Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools such as Argo CD.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Hands‑on experience in API development and system integrations.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), YAML, and Ansible.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud‑native architectures.

Preferred

• Experience developing Kubernetes Operators.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Experience in private cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience enabling self‑service platform capabilities for application teams.