SRE Cloud Engineer Manager

Join our dynamic team at Ford Credit, where finance meets technology in a cutting-edge environment. As a forward-thinking 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.

We’re 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.

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. 
• Full-time fixed contract, with a competitive starting compensation and a benefits package (restaurant card, discounts…) 
• Work-life balance: 33 vacation days and work under a hybrid model (2/3 days a week) 
• Career Development path – being part of high-impact 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 cost-effective 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, high-performance 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 self-hosted cloud platform, considering scalability, performance, and security requirements.
• Deploy, configure, and manage the various components of the self-hosted cloud platform, including virtualization, networking, storage, and orchestration tools.
• Modernise existing on-prem 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 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.
• Investigate and resolve infrastructure-related incidents, develop solution associated to self-heal 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 third-party tools and services.
• Manage relationships with cloud service providers.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures.
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• Proven work experience in designing, deploying and operating mid to large scale public cloud environments. 
• Proven experience in designing, deploying, and managing self-hosted 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/plug-ins with Sentinel Policy as Code
• Proven working experience in implementing GCP security features, including Identity 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, GoLang,Java, JS and Node.js. 
• Familiarity with networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP).
• Experience in security best practices and techniques for securing self-hosted environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure components such as compute, storage, and networking.
• 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 
• 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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