SRE - Devops Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Cloud Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering for Ford Credit Tech

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 cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, automate and manage a highly available and scalable cloud deployment that allows development teams to deploy and run their services.
• Collaborating with engineering and Architects teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions, also leveraging scalability, high-performance and security.
• Design and implement sustainable cloud and platform services.
• Build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure.
• Manage hosting external containers in Private cloud.
• 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 self-healing 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.

Required Skills and Selection Criteria:

• Proven work experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments.
• Public Cloud >> GCP is a good to have.
• Proven work experience in Docker/Kubernetes (image building, k8s schedule)
• Experience in package, config and deployment management via Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD.
• Proven working experience in onboarding and troubleshooting Cloud Services.
• Proven work experience in provisioning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform Enterprise or community edition.
• Proven work experience in writing custom terraform providers/plug-ins with Sentinel Policy as Code
• Strong knowledge in Github, DevOps (Cloud Build is an advantage)
• Should be proficient in scripting and coding, that include traditional languages like Python, PowerShell, GoLang,Java, JS and Node.js.
• Proven working experience in Messaging Middleware - Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ
• Proven working experience in API gateway, Apigee is an advantage.
• Proven working experience in API development, REST.
• Proven working experience in Sec and IAM, SSL/TLS, OAuth and JWT.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on 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 tools should be a priority

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous success in technical engineering
• Must have > 5 overall experience
• Must have >3 years of experience in public cloud
• Must have >3 years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure provisioning
• Must have >3 years of experience in Cloud Engineering