Virtualization Platform Automation Engineer, Admin

🔥 18 minutes ago

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $85.4k - $192.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Develop automation solutions and playbooks for virtualization configuration changes, auditing, remediation, and ticketing-system integration • Use automation to deliver operator updates and changes efficiently at scale • Implement Site Reliability Engineering principles to improve platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency • Deploy and audit role-based access controls • Manage namespaces and resource quotas • Develop and maintain automation tools using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and C • Design, consume, and troubleshoot APIs for service integration and workflow automation • Build and support GitOps workflows for configuration, deployments, and infrastructure changes • Automate build, test, deployment, and operational processes • Troubleshoot scripts, applications, APIs, and automation pipelines • Collaborate with developers, operations teams, application teams, and stakeholders • Document tools, integrations, tests, procedures, and platform capabilities • Use AI tools for coding, troubleshooting, documentation, and workflow improvement while reviewing and testing outputs • Implement end-to-end observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing for the OpenShift Virtualization environment • Implement event-driven architecture for real-time monitoring and response • Flag abnormalities and observability blind spots • Perform root cause analysis across the global compute environment • Monitor VM health, resource usage, performance metrics, unusual activity, and potential compromises or misconfigurations • Provide virtualization technical consulting to application teams • Design, implement, and validate custom clusters and VM solutions for critical applications • Conduct VMware and OpenShift Virtualization capacity planning and forecasting • Analyze resource utilization and recommend scaling, consolidation, or optimization • Collaborate on future demand and project capacity needs • Develop and maintain capacity models and reports • Maintain internal documentation and customer-facing Ford docs content

🎯 Requirements

• Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of experience as a developer (automation) and IT infrastructure specialist in virtualization solutions • 2+ years focused on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization • Programming and scripting proficiency in Bash, PowerShell, and Python for automation • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or GitOps • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies • Experience engineering, administering, and automating VMware in production • Understanding of VMware, OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), and Kubernetes concepts • Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals • Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace and logging solutions • Experience designing or consuming APIs • Familiarity with containers and deployment • Understanding of repeatable, reviewable infrastructure and configuration changes • Awareness of service health, incident response, and preventing recurring operational issues • Experience securely handling authentication tokens and credentials • Experience writing and maintaining unit tests • Familiarity with GitOps principles and Git-based workflows • Experience using Git for version control and collaborative development • Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams • Nice to have: experience with Jenkins and/or Tekton • Nice to have: experience with Ansible or similar configuration-management tools • Preferred: bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience • Visa sponsorship is not available • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days • Paid parental leave • New parent ramp-up programs • Subsidized back-up child care • Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement • Fertility treatments • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members • Management leases • Tuition assistance • Established and active employee resource groups • Paid time off for individual and team community service • Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day • Paid time off • Option to purchase additional vacation time