DevOps Software Engineer

Company: Ford Motor Company
Location: Dearborn
Posted on: November 12, 2021

Job Description:

At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.
As a member of Enterprise Connectivity, you'll play a critical part in crafting the future of mobility. The selected candidate will work closely with existing team members to progress and grow projects following SAFE Agile development practices using associated processes and tools, to ensure work to the Electric Vehicle development organizations meet encouraged requirements and program timings.
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer in support of modernizing software platforms and centralizing software development processes, methods, and tools. This person will join a team responsible for building and deploying a large-scale hardware build, deployment, and validation pipeline in a cloud environment. A strategic part of this role will be the ability to deliver the best digital experiences to our Electric Vehicle customers. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about automation, software artisanship, and operational practices.
What you'll be able to do:

• Develop technology proofs of concepts and custom tools to shape DevOps practices for the global Mobility Product Delivery - Electrification (EV) team
• Partner with EV product teams and drive the normalization of DevOps instrumentation standards by building out and maintaining a common DevOps tooling suite.
• Continually evaluate emerging technologies to find opportunities, trends and standard methodologies that can be used to strengthen the technology platform, testing automation, and deployment practices.
• Help the team build standards and best practices to deliver highly reliable, "always on" software engineering platform(s) our EV customers expect.
• Promote a DevOps culture and mentality, including the adoption of DORA metrics.
• Collaborate with teams working in an Agile methodology applying daily standups, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and story acceptance sessions.
  The minimum requirements we seek:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • 1+ years of experience developing software in C, C++, or Java.
  • 1+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD tools and environments in a large enterprise (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
  • 1+ years of experience working in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
    Our preferred requirements:
    • Masters Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field.
    • 1+ years of experience with Terraform software.
    • 1+ years of experience working in a customer facing support environment.
    • 1+ years of experience working in an electric vehicle concepts environment.
      What you'll receive in return:As part of the Ford family, you'll enjoy excellent compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings, and stock investment plans, incentive compensation, and much more. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.
      If you have what it takes to help us redefine the future of mobility, we'd love to have you join us.Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States permanently. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
      We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or protected veteran status.For information on Ford's salary and benefits, please visit: https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2021-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf

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