SRE Cloud Engineer Manager

Join our dynamic team at Ford Credit where finance meets technology in a cuttingedge environment. As a forwardthinking fintech organization we blend the stability of a finance with the innovation of a tech company. Explore a career that bridges finance and technology driving impactful solutions in a diverse and collaborative workplace.

Were passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to empower our users with a rich feature set high availability and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. We are currently seeking a public cloud experienced engineer for planning designing and implementing next generation cloud infrastructure solutions. Cloud Engineer will be a part of the Engineering team and will require a strong knowledge of application monitoring infrastructure monitoring automation maintenance and Service Reliability Improvements.

Specifically we are searching for someone who brings fresh ideas demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint and enjoys collaborating with a crossfunctional team to develop realworld solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

Reasons why you would love joining Ford:

• Belong to a leading company in the Automotive industry globally with more than 120 years in the market.
• Fulltime fixed contract with a competitive starting compensation and a benefits package (restaurant card discounts)
• Worklife balance: 33 vacation days and work under a hybrid model 2/3 days a week)
• Career Development path being part of highimpact projects which would allow you to improve your technical skills and develop.

• Design automate and manage a highly available and scalable cloud deployment that allows development teams to deploy and run their services.
• Automate operational tasks and processes using tools like Cloud Shell Cloud SDK or Cloud APIs. This includes creating scripts templates or workflows to automate deployment scaling monitoring and maintenance activities.
• Design scalable reliable and costeffective cloud infrastructure.
• Define architecture patterns including virtual networks subnets security groups and resource groups.
• Set up and configure virtual machines storage databases and other cloud resources.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform.
• Extensively automated deployments and managed applications in GCP.
• Collaborating with engineering and Architects teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions also leveraging scalability highperformance and security.
• Implement security best practices including network security groups firewalls and encryption.
• Plan and implement disaster recovery strategies; Also setup automated backups and data retention policies.
• Design the architecture of the selfhosted cloud platform considering scalability performance and security requirements.
• Deploy configure and manage the various components of the selfhosted cloud platform including virtualization networking storage and orchestration tools.
• Modernise existing onprem solution and improving existing systems.
• Extensively automated deployments and managed applications in GCP.
• Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams to identify optimization strategies help develop selfhealing capabilities
• Experience in developing a strong observability capabilities
• Identifying analysing and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructurerelated incidents develop solution associated to selfheal and support teams to address issues promptly.
• Lead a team of cloud engineers providing guidance and mentorship.
• Strong leadership skills to guide a team of cloud engineers.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Evaluate and select thirdparty tools and services.
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure processes and procedures.
• Effective communication and collaboration with crossfunctional teams.

• Proven workexperience in designing deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments.
• Proven experience in designing deploying and managing selfhosted cloud platforms.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Golang Python Bash Terraform).
• Proven work experience in Docker/Kubernetes(image building k8s schedule)
• Experience in package config and deployment management via Helm Kustomize ArgoCD.
• Proven work experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.
• Proven work experience in writing custom terraform providers/pluginswith Sentinel Policyas Code
• Proven working experience in implementing GCP security features includingIdentity and Access Management (IAM)VPC Firewall Rules and encryption.
• Strong knowledge in Github DevOps (CloudBuild is an advantage)
• Should be proficient in scripting and coding that include traditional languages like Python GoLangJava JS and Node.js.
• Familiarity with networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP DNS DHCP).
• Experience in security best practices and techniques for securing selfhosted environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure components such as compute storage and networking.
• Extensive knowledge and handson experience in Grafana and Prometheus micro libraries.
• Exposure to Cloud Monitoring and logging.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS HDFS Ceph S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks(Mesos Kubernetes Yarn)
• Experience with automation toolsshould be a priority
• Professional Certification is an advantage
• Public Cloud >> GCP is a good to have.
• Languages: English advanced/high level needed.

Additional Information

Ford is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender marital status civil partnership status parental status race ethnic origin colour nationality national origin disability sexual orientation religion/belief gender reassignment and gender identity age and those with caring responsibilities.

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