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Ford Motor Company

Platform Engineering Architect

Posted 13 Days Ago
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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
The Platform Engineering Architect will design and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate processes, mentor teams, and improve services. Responsibilities include implementing best practices for security, performance, and scalability, as well as resolving performance issues in GCP environments.
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  • Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest DevSecOps and Platform Engineering methodologies along with AI Agentic Automation Skills

  • Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, 42crunch, Astra & FOSSA

  • Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, CloudRun, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB and other managed services.

  • Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster, OpenShift etc. 

  • Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting, NX Cloud, Helmcharts and ArgoCD

  • Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of DevSecOps, Observability and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization

  • Experience in implementing Auto scaling, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is added advantage.

  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the development and deployment of products on the eCommerce foundation layer

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements, and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications

  • Work with Product teams to understand their pain points and increase the Developer Experience through Platform Engineering Capabilities

  • Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform

  • Expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk for monitoring and alerting.

  • Experience in Cloud FinOps to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost

Responsibilities

 

  • Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape
  • Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure

  • Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience

  • Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems

  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios

  • Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health

  • Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance

  • Build Automation for repeatable DevSecOps tasks and help with improving Software Engineers’ productivity

  • Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level

  • Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform

Qualifications

Bachelors or Master of Engineering

Platform Engineering Experience

10-15 Years Experience

Top Skills

42Crunch
Ansible
Appdynamics
Argocd
Astra
Cycode
Dynatrace
Elk
Fossa
GCP
Grafana
Helmcharts
Nx Cloud
Packer
Prometheus
Shell Scripting
Sonarqube
Splunk
Terraform

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