Senior Platform Engineer

Why Join Us?

Join a tight-knit, rapidly growing team that values collaboration, continuous learning, and a passion for pushing technological boundaries. Be at the forefront of modernizing Ford's core PLM (product lifecycle management) processes and have a direct impact on the tools our engineers use every day. 

This role is specifically within our Infrastructure, Platform, & DevOps portion of our Product Development (PD) Platform Operations team. This group maintains all aspects of our deployed Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE (3DX) platform here within Ford Motor Company. 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Technical Platform Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of our Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE platform infrastructure here within Ford. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud technologies, infrastructure components, and automation tools, with a focus on ensuring the high availability, performance, and security of our platform. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and possess advanced knowledge of various infrastructure components, including servers, VMs, networking, routing protocols, load balancing, and application/database servers.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Design & Implementation: Design, build, and maintain the 3DEXPERIENCE platform infrastructure on-premise, in GCP, leveraging infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Automation: Develop and maintain automated scripts and processes for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment using Terraform and Ansible
• Cloud Management: Manage and monitor GCP resources, ensuring optimal performance, cost efficiency, and security. This includes managing Compute Engine, VPC, ILBs/EGLBS/UIG/MIGs, storage, CloudSQL and other GCP services
• Application Support: Provide technical support for the 3DEXPERIENCE platform applications, including troubleshooting performance issues, resolving application errors, and collaborating with application developers. This includes deep understanding of Linux, JVM, Tomcat, Apache, and HAProxy
• Security: Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect the 3DX platform infrastructure and applications from threats and vulnerabilities
• Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, identifying and resolving bottlenecks
• Troubleshooting & Incident Management: Respond to and resolve infrastructure and application incidents, providing timely and effective solutions
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure architecture, configurations, and processes.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other engineering teams, including application developers, database administrators, and security engineers.
• Innovation: Research and evaluate new technologies and tools to improve the efficiency and scalability of the 3DX platform infrastructure

Qualifications:

• Preferred Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Or, related experience. 
• 7+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Networking, Cloud Load Balancing, and other relevant services
• Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible
• Advanced understanding of server and virtualization technologies, including VMs, containers, and serverless computing
• Deep understanding of networking concepts, including routing, switching, firewalls, and load balancing
• Advanced knowledge of Java Virtual Machines (JVMs), Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, and HAProxy
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Bash, Python)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
• Strong understanding of security best practices and principles
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

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, and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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: Benefit Summary

*Please note: This is a hybrid role, you will be expected to commute on-site up to 3 times a week*

*Visa Sponsorship is provided for this role*

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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