Remote Cloud Platform Engineer — OpenShift & Kubernetes

Lincoln Motor Company; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Back-up child care

Vehicle discount

Job summary

Ford is seeking a highly technical Platform Engineer to join Enterprise Technology. You will mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement while owning the OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms on GCP and Azure.

You will ensure platform reliability, scalability and security, define SLAs/SLOs, and push IaC and automation initiatives across the team. Collaboration with cross‑functional partners is essential to shape the platform roadmap and strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of distributed systems, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• Deep expertise with OpenShift and/or Kubernetes; cloud infra on GCP or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform engineering, mentoring engineers and promoting continuous improvement.
• Develop and operate OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters on GCP/Azure.
• Ensure high availability, security, and scalability of platforms.
• Define, monitor, and meet SLAs/SLOs; manage MTTR.
• Drive automation and IaC best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on roadmap and strategy.

Skills

Team collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/IT or related field

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Ford is seeking a highly technical Platform Engineer to join Enterprise Technology. You will mentor engineers and drive continuous improvement while owning the OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms on GCP and Azure.

You will ensure platform reliability, scalability and security, define SLAs/SLOs, and push IaC and automation initiatives across the team. Collaboration with cross‑functional partners is essential to shape the platform roadmap and strategy.