Senior Platform Engineer (OpenShift - Kubernetes & GitOps)

Ford; Chennai District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford in India 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 cloud-native capabilities.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands-on Go/Python development, and expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD, and GitOps practices. Expect focus on reliability and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, 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.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
• Develop platform capabilities using automation, scripting, and IaC methodologies.
• Build integrations between platform services and enterprise systems through APIs and automation frameworks.
• Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.
• Develop and maintain platform components using Go, Python, or equivalent languages.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable cloud-native solutions.
• Implement platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting practices.
• Contribute to platform architecture, security, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support microservices-based workloads on container platforms.

Skills

Engineering mindset

Automation

CI/CD

GitOps

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Go

Python

IaC

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.

Required

• 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

Experience with one or more of the following:

• 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