DevOps Enablement Engineer
Ford Motor5 days ago
Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud-native developer infrastructure on GCP and Azure using Terraform, GKE, Kubernetes, and related services.
- Design and optimize GitHub Actions and Jenkins CI/CD workflows supporting Java, Go, and Python applications.
- Manage GitOps-based deployment, YAML configuration, GitHub Enterprise workflows, and self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
- Develop backend APIs and integrations using Java, Go, or Python with Apigee, OAuth2, and JWT.
- Containerize and operate applications with Docker or Podman on Kubernetes, diagnosing cluster and production issues.
- Implement observability, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and platform-health dashboards using BigQuery and Looker Studio.
- Integrate security and code-quality controls, including secrets management, least privilege, supply-chain hygiene, and SonarQube pipeline gates.
- Build AI-assisted engineering integrations, agent workflows, prompt automation, and operational tools for incident triage, IaC, testing, and technical content generation.
- Evaluate AI developer and infrastructure tools and support LLM or agentic workloads where applicable.
- Serve as a senior escalation point, mentor junior engineers, and drive continuous improvements in reliability, security, and developer velocity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- At least 8 years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience.
- Strong production programming experience, preferably with Python and/or Go.
- Proficiency with YAML, Git, GitHub Enterprise, Bash/Shell scripting, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, and container technologies.
- Hands-on experience with GKE, GCP infrastructure, GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins, Docker or Podman, and GitOps tools such as Config Sync, ArgoCD, or Flux.
- Experience integrating SonarQube or an equivalent tool into CI/CD pipelines for quality and security scanning.
- Experience designing APIs and integrations, including API gateways, Apigee, OAuth2, and JWT.
- Experience building observability and reporting dashboards with BigQuery and Data Studio/Looker Studio.
- Knowledge of metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs, incident response, and security-by-default pipeline design.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and implementing AI/ML products and using AI-assisted development tools and agent workflows.
- Customer-focused communication skills, continuous-improvement experience, and the ability to balance developer experience with security and compliance.
- Bonus experience with LLM or agentic systems, GPUs, or model-serving infrastructure in production.
Tech Stack
AzureBashDockerGitGitHub ActionsGoGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaJenkinsKubernetesLooker StudioPythonSonarQubeSpring BootTerraform
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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.