About the role

What will you do at Ford Motor Company?

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced VMware and OpenShift

Virtualization Engineer to join our dynamic Globally positioned, on premises

cloud platform team.

In this role, you will

be responsible for the design,
implementation, administration, and ongoing management of our Virtualization
services. You will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our
virtualized workloads, leveraging your expertise in VMware and OpenShift, and
virtualization technologies. This position requires a strong understanding of
architecting/engineering end-to-end solutions, day-2 operations, proactive
monitoring, and a commitment to operational excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Capacity Management
* 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.
OSV Automation & Efficiency
* 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)
Observability, Monitoring, logging and Troubleshooting
* 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
Solution Design & Consulting
* 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)
Knowledge Management
* 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
QUALIFICATIONS
Required

Qualifications

* 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.

Preferred Qualifications

* Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering
field.
* Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined
storage (SDS) solutions.
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: https://fordcareers.co/GSR
[https://fordcareers.co/GSR]
This position ranges from salary grade 6-8 and ranges from $85,400-$144,900.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and
experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to
job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
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. Verification of employment eligibility will be
required at the time of hire.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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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Which skills does this role require?

VMwareOpenShiftKubernetesKubeVirtAnsibleTerraformGitOpsBashPythonPrometheusGrafanaDynatraceLinux administrationCapacity planningSite Reliability EngineeringVirtualizationCloud PlatformInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDDevOpsLinuxObservabilityCapacity ManagementRoot Cause AnalysisSoftware-defined storage

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