[Remote] Cloud Platform Virtualization Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ford Motor Company is seeking a Cloud Platform Virtualization Engineer to join its globally positioned, on-premises cloud platform team. The role is responsible for designing, implementing, administering, automating, and managing VMware and OpenShift Virtualization services, with a focus on capacity management, observability, troubleshooting, solution design, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the OpenShift Virtualization platform, including compute, memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion
• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning
• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing
• Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)
• Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana
• Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real time monitoring and response
• Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability
• Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially utilizing available tooling, to quickly identify and resolve issues across the global compute environment
• Find the needle in a haystack/unhealthy bits in the compute universe (Globally) for faster time to resolution
• Monitor VM health, resource usage, and performance metrics proactively
• Monitor for unusual activity that might indicate a compromise or misconfiguration
• Provide technical consulting and expertise to application teams requiring OSV solutions
• Design, implement, and validate custom or dedicated OSV clusters and VM solutions for critical applications with unique or complex requirements (e.g., specialized appliances)
• Create, maintain, and update comprehensive internal documentation and customer facing content on the Ford docs site to facilitate self service and clearly articulate platform capabilities

Skills

• * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• * 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and VMware and at least 2+ years focused on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization
• * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible, Terraform, or GitOps
• * Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies
• * Proven experience with engineering. administering and automating (IaC) VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) in a production environments
• * Strong understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts
• * Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals
• * Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation
• * Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace) and logging solutions
• * Solid understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies
• * Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers of the stack
• * Strong communication and collaboration skills
• *Visa sponsorship IS available for this position.*
• *Relocation assistance not provided for this position.*
• Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• * Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering field
• * Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) solutions

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement
• 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
• Visa sponsorship is available for this position

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