Job Description
Job Description We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better worldtogether. At Ford, we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?
We are seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role in developing Bedrock, a comprehensive Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that includes CI/CD pipelines, managed infrastructure, observability, and a developer portal.
The primary focus of this role will be on ensuring the stability and scalability of the Bedrock Internal Developer Platform that hosts the cloud applications that power our customer's connected vehicle experiences. The secondary focus of this role will be to facilitate the enablement of our product teams developing and supporting these cloud applications.
Responsibilities What you'll do... •Run a production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
•Developing, improving, and operating the deployment and orchestration of a complex distributed system
•Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
•Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
•Provide primary operational and engineering Support for multiple large, distributed software applications
•Identify and reduce or eliminate toil via automation to maximize the time spent on engineering and innovation
•Collaborating with development teams to design, build, and operate scalable and resilient software systems
•Automating build, deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes
•Performing root cause analysis of production incidents and implementing preventive measures
•Conducting performance analysis and optimization of the system
•Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards
•Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery processes
•Providing technical guidance and mentorship to other team members
•Participating in an on-call rotation for incident response and support.
Qualifications You'll have... •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Software or other related or foreign equivalency degree or combination of education and experience
•5 Years experience in software engineering, preferably in Java, Golang or Kotlin
•2 Years experience with cloud-based infrastructure, preferably GCP
•2 Years experience with Kubernetes
•4 Years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, DataDog or similar.
Even better, you may have... •Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Software or other related or foreign equivalency degree
•Understanding of gRPC & RESTful APIs, and microservices platform
•Strong experience with product & development teams to establish error budgets by identifying the right SLOs (Service level objective), SLIs (Service level indicators), KPIs (Key performance indicators) and effectively drive the use of the budget to ensure maximum domain availability/uptime.
•Regularly review key site technical metrics such as transactions errors, logging, response times, caching strategies, conversion/bounce rates, capacity & resource utilization.
•Proactively identify stability risks & work with engineering leadership to establish appropriate mitigation plans
•Maintain knowledge repository that includes Standard operating procedure, Release checklists, Runbooks for incident recovery
•Experience in solving complex architecture/design & business problems, work to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.
•Architect, design & develop automation to reduce toil, improve recoverability, availability, latency & scalability of supported applications with understanding of MTTD (Mean Time to Detection) & MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution)
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
•Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
•Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
•Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
•Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
•Tuition assistance
•Established and active employee resource groups
•Paid time off for individual and team community service
•A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
•Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: This position is a range of salary grades 6-8.
Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.
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