GCP Cloud Engineer

Ford - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Springfield, IL

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

As a GCP Cloud Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mobility by enhancing and simplifying Ford's complex global infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations. This position is part of the Enterprise Technology Group, where you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of key cloud-native infrastructure, computing, database, network, storage, and interoperability initiatives. Your work will directly impact the customer experience and improve people's lives by leveraging advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape. In this role, you will collaborate with Technology and Software Platform teams to provide comprehensive solutions for cloud infrastructure across the Ford Enterprise. This includes hosting, computing, databases, and networks. You will define, analyze, assemble, and integrate components to deliver infrastructure patterns that consider platforms, software, availability, scalability, and reliability. Your responsibilities will also include designing, building, and maintaining GCP infrastructure to support various applications and services, ensuring that you stay current with GCP technologies and best practices to provide recommendations for continuous improvement. You will be tasked with developing, advising, and documenting GCP infrastructure and deployment processes, utilizing your experience with REST API, Agile tools, DevOps, and source control tools like Git and JIRA. Additionally, you will design and develop high-performance, scalable, and secure cloud-native applications on GCP, working closely with development teams to implement best practices for deploying and managing applications. Monitoring and optimizing the performance of GCP resources, troubleshooting issues, and maintaining open communication channels will be essential aspects of your role.

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.
• Work with development teams to implement best practices for deploying and managing applications on GCP.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of GCP resources and troubleshoot issues related to GCP infrastructure and services.
• Support the development of technical design and documentation.
• Maintain open channels of communication by providing relevant information, technical expertise, and recommended best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 7 years of experience in IT or Technology-related disciplines with progressively increasing responsibility.
• 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native GCP and hybrid cloud environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• 2+ years of 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.
• Good understanding of public cloud services offerings.
• 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.
• Ability to ideate cloud-based solution accelerators and frameworks for migrating existing enterprise data warehouse to the Cloud.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation tools along with excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills to provide new feature demos to project stakeholders.

Benefits

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