Platform Automation Engineer

Ford; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve our private cloud platform emphasizing OpenShift and Kubernetes, automation, and GitOps. You will develop automation, APIs, and Operators to improve developer experience and platform scalability across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

The ideal candidate has strong Go or Python development skills and a passion for automation, not manual operations, and will collaborate with architects and product teams to raise

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in Platform/Cloud/SRE or Infra Automation.
• Hands-on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience deploying/upgrading/automating Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Strong OO programming and software engineering practices.
• Experience with GitOps and Argo CD.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Tekton, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Hands-on API development and system integrations.
• IaC, YAML, and Ansible experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Go, Python, Ansible and IaC practices.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes Operators, APIs, and self-service platform capabilities.
• Implement GitOps deployment workflows using Argo CD and Tekton.
• Develop integrations between OpenShift and enterprise platforms via APIs and automation frameworks.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and resilience through automated monitoring, alerting, and recovery mechanisms.
• Build observability solutions using Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• 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.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Go

Python

GitOps

IaC

Ansible

CI/CD

APIs

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

Argo CD

Tekton

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

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.
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