Virtualization Platform Automation Engineer and Admin
Ford Motor21 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$85k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop scripts, playbooks, and automation tools for virtualization configuration, auditing, remediation, ticketing integration, and operational workflows.
- Administer and manage VMware and OpenShift Virtualization platforms, including role-based access control, namespaces, resource quotas, clusters, and virtual machines.
- Build and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and C, including API integrations, unit tests, and troubleshooting across applications and pipelines.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, anomaly detection, and root-cause analysis using tools such as Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana.
- Support GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, build, test, deployment, and infrastructure-change processes.
- Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for compute, memory, storage, and network resources and recommend scaling, consolidation, or optimization.
- Provide technical consulting and design custom virtualization solutions for application teams and complex workloads.
- Create and maintain internal documentation and customer-facing self-service content.
- Handle authentication tokens and credentials securely and follow software development, version-control, review, testing, and documentation practices.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience as an automation developer and IT infrastructure specialist focused on virtualization solutions, including VMware.
- At least 2 years focused on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization.
- Proficiency and programming experience in Bash, PowerShell, or Python for automation.
- Experience engineering, administering, and automating VMware in production environments.
- Understanding of OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt, Kubernetes, Linux administration, networking fundamentals, containers, and deployment.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible or Terraform and familiarity with GitOps and Git-based workflows.
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace.
- Experience designing or consuming APIs, writing unit tests, handling credentials securely, and troubleshooting complex multilayer issues.
- Understanding of service health, incident response, recurring-issue prevention, virtualization concepts, and repeatable infrastructure changes.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, ownership, security awareness, and ability to communicate technical concepts clearly.
- Nice-to-have experience with Jenkins, Tekton, Ansible, or similar configuration-management tools.
- Preferred bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred familiarity with software-defined networking and software-defined storage solutions.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new-parent ramp-up programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility treatment benefits.
- Vehicle discount programs for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance 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, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- The position is onsite, relocation assistance is not provided, and the role does not offer visa sponsorship.
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About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.