Senior Platform Engineer (OpenShift, Kubernetes & GitOps)
Ford Motor19 hours ago
Remote, India or Chennai, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, administer, upgrade, and automate Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
- Develop platform capabilities and components using automation, scripting, infrastructure as code, Go, Python, or equivalent programming languages.
- Build API integrations between platform services and enterprise systems.
- Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on scalable, resilient cloud-native solutions.
- Implement platform observability, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, reliability, and operational excellence practices.
- Support microservices-based workloads and distributed systems running on container platforms.
Requirements
- 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
- Strong experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform, including cluster deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, and automation.
- Proficiency in software development and strong object-oriented programming concepts.
- Hands-on development experience with Go, Python, or a similar programming language.
- Experience with GitHub, Argo CD, Tekton, CI/CD, GitOps, API integration, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Strong individual-contributor experience designing and implementing platform solutions.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native design principles.
- Preferred experience with Kubernetes Operators, Custom Controllers, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation, HashiCorp Vault, and hybrid or private cloud environments.
- Preferred knowledge of platform security, governance, and compliance best practices.
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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.