Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift & Kubernetes

Ford; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate medical coverage

Flexible family care days

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid time off for community service

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Information Technology seeks an experienced platform engineer to lead the OpenShift/Kubernetes stack and cloud operations on GCP and Azure. You will mentor engineers, shape the platform strategy, and drive automation to improve reliability and efficiency.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platform services that support Ford’s global operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading platform/DevOps teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or a related field.
• Deep expertise with container orchestration platforms, especially OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Team work and delivery with a high-performing platform engineering team.
• Platform Management of OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure with high availability, security and scalability.
• Service Delivery: define, monitor, and meet SLAs, SLOs, and MTTR targets for internal customers.
• Automation and Efficiency: drive IaC practices and automation improvements.
• Strategy: align platform roadmap with business needs and user requirements.
• Incident Management: support technical issues and post-mortem analyses.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Team mentoring

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Ford Information Technology seeks an experienced platform engineer to lead the OpenShift/Kubernetes stack and cloud operations on GCP and Azure. You will mentor engineers, shape the platform strategy, and drive automation to improve reliability and efficiency.

The role emphasizes collaboration across teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available platform services that support Ford’s global operations.