GCP Cloud Engineer

Ford - Albany, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Albany, NY

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As a GCP Cloud Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you will play a critical role in enhancing and simplifying the company's complex global infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and on-premises data centers. This position involves designing, building, and maintaining cloud-native applications and infrastructure, collaborating with various teams to integrate GCP services, and ensuring optimal performance and security of cloud resources. You will be part of a team that is dedicated to redefining the transportation landscape and improving customer experiences through advanced technology.

Responsibilities

• Work with Technology and Software Platform teams to provide solutions for cloud infrastructure across the Ford Enterprise.
• Define, analyze, assemble, and integrate components to deliver infrastructure patterns for the business.
• Design, build, and maintain GCP infrastructure to support applications and services.
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate GCP services into the overall IT architecture.
• Stay current with GCP technologies and best practices, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Develop, advise, and document GCP infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications on GCP.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of GCP resources and troubleshoot issues as needed.
• Support the development of technical design and documentation.
• Maintain open channels of communication by providing relevant information and technical expertise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or a combination of education and equivalent experience.
• 7 years of experience in IT or Technology-related disciplines with progressively increasing responsibility.
• 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native (Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid cloud environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• 2+ years' experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of GCP services, including Containers, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage.
• Experience in building big data solutions and ensuring security and compliance of the GCP environment.
• Experience working on Serverless design and implementing Container As A Service (CaaS).
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using CI/CD methodologies leveraging Jenkins, containers, Kubernetes, etc.
• Possess GCP Certification with one of the following: Google Cloud Digital Leader, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or Google Cloud Network Engineer.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Generous PTO
• Retirement and savings plans
• Incentive compensation
• Tuition assistance
• Vehicle discount program