Senior Platform Engineer OpenShift Kubernetes And GitOps

Ford Motor Company; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. You will collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platform capabilities.

The role requires hands-on development in Go or Python, strong IaC and automation skills, and experience with CI/CD and GitOps using GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift, including cluster deployment and upgrades.
• Proficiency in programming with Go or Python and strong OO concepts.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs with an API-first approach.
• Ability to build scalable, cloud-native platform solutions as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.
• Develop platform capabilities using IaC and scripting.
• Create API integrations between platform services and enterprise systems.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines with GitHub, Argo CD, Tekton.
• Develop platform components using Go or Python.
• Ensure observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting of platforms.
• Contribute to platform security, reliability, and operational excellence.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Go

Python

CI/CD

GitOps

Automation

Cloud platforms

Tools

GitHub

Argo CD

Tekton

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Dynatrace

Vault

Terraform

Job description

Job Description:

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. You will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platform capabilities.
This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands-on development experience, and expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.

• Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters.
• Develop platform capabilities using automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Build integrations between platform services and enterprise systems through APIs and automation frameworks.
• Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.
• Develop and maintain platform components using Go, Python, or equivalent programming languages.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable and resilient cloud-native solutions.
• Implement platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting practices.
• Contribute to platform architecture, security, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support microservices-based workloads and distributed systems running on container platforms.
• 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), including cluster deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, and automation.
• Proficiency in software development with strong object-oriented programming concepts.
• Hands-on development experience in Go, Python, or a similar programming language.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs with an API-first engineering approach.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing platform solutions as an individual contributor.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native design principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Kubernetes Operators and Custom Controllers
• Service Mesh technologies such as Istio
• Observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, or similar tools
• Storage technologies such as Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)
• Secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault
• Hybrid cloud and private cloud environments
• Platform security, governance, and compliance best practices

Requirements: