Cloud Platform Engineer - OpenShift/Kubernetes (Remote)

Lincoln Motor Company; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 85,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program for employees

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a technically seasoned Platform Engineer to join Enterprise Technology. You will shape distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, mentoring engineers and driving scalable, secure operations.

Lead OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure, with a focus on reliability and automation. You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver strategic platform capabilities, implement IaC practices, and ensure service performance and incident readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with platform, DevOps or site reliability teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field.
• Deep expertise with container orchestration platforms OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Team work and delivery: collaborate with a high-performing platform team.
• Platform Management: operate OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure with high availability and security.
• Service Delivery: define and monitor SLAs/SLOs and MTTR to meet internal customer needs.
• Automation and Efficiency: lead IaC initiatives and enforce best practices (Terraform, GitOps).
• Strategy: align platform roadmap with business needs and user requirements.
• Incident Management: support platform issues, perform post-mortems to prevent recurrence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Terraform

GitOps

SLA/SLO

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

OpenShift

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a technically seasoned Platform Engineer to join Enterprise Technology. You will shape distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, mentoring engineers and driving scalable, secure operations.

Lead OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters on GCP and Azure, with a focus on reliability and automation. You’ll collaborate across teams to deliver strategic platform capabilities, implement IaC practices, and ensure service performance and incident readiness.