Ford - Trenton, NJ
posted 3 months ago
As a GCP Cloud Engineer at Ford Motor Company, you will be a key member of our Enterprise Technology Group, playing a critical role in shaping the future of mobility. This position offers a unique opportunity to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance customer experiences, and improve lives. You will be responsible for managing and simplifying Ford's complex global infrastructure environment, which spans Google Cloud Platform (GCP), on-premises data centers, and distributed locations across major regions. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include overseeing cloud-native infrastructure, computing, database, network, storage, and interoperability initiatives. 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 expertise will be crucial in designing, building, and maintaining GCP infrastructure to support our applications and services, ensuring that they are high-performing, scalable, and secure. You will also stay current with GCP technologies and best practices, providing recommendations for continuous improvement. Your responsibilities will extend to developing, advising, and documenting GCP infrastructure and deployment processes, utilizing REST API, Agile tools, DevOps, and source control tools like Git and JIRA. Additionally, you will monitor and optimize the performance of GCP resources, troubleshoot issues, and maintain open channels of communication to share relevant information and best practices with your team and stakeholders.