Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift/Kubernetes (Remote)

Lincoln Motor Company; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 85,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Parental leave

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a highly technical Platform Engineer to mentor engineers and lead OpenShift/Kubernetes platform operations on GCP and Azure. You will drive platform strategy, reliability, and automation while partnering with cross-functional teams to meet business needs.

You’ll work on defining SLAs/SLOs, incident response, and IaC governance, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure for internal customers and end users across cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in platform/DevOps/SRE teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT.
• Deep expertise with container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience (GCP/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a high-performing platform team to deliver solutions.
• Manage OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP/Azure for reliability and security.
• Define and monitor SLAs/SLOs and MTTR targets for internal customers.
• Lead automation initiatives and enforce IaC best practices.
• Align platform capabilities with business needs and user requirements.
• Support incident management and post-mortems to prevent recurrence.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or IT

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a highly technical Platform Engineer to mentor engineers and lead OpenShift/Kubernetes platform operations on GCP and Azure. You will drive platform strategy, reliability, and automation while partnering with cross-functional teams to meet business needs.

You’ll work on defining SLAs/SLOs, incident response, and IaC governance, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure for internal customers and end users across cloud environments.