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At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.
Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.
Responsibilities
What you'll be able to do:
Container-Based Software Engineering Consultant - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the aforementioned worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the worksite. Provide expert technical guidance to application development teams concerning matters of application containerization, building, deploying, running and monitoring Cloud Native, legacy and COTS applications in Ford's Container-based platforms (Kubernetes and GCP Cloud Run). Be able to work with other teams to evaluate and adopt new container, cloud and Kubernetes related technologies, and develop detailed guides, patterns, videos, workshops, sample code, reference CI/CD pipelines and utilities, members of the Ford Software Development community can use to run their applications in and migrate to, said platforms. Work with teams to identify and solve complex production and CI/CD pipeline issues while being able to dive deeply into application code.
Qualifications
You'll have...
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Applied Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation. 5 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Developing Cloud Native applications and applications written in Spring Boot and Java EE. 4 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Running applications in and deploying applications to Red Hat OpenShift, GKE or other Kubernetes environments or Knative environments including GCP Cloud Run. 2. Developing and creating CI/CD pipelines with either Tekton or Jenkins. 3. Performing application containerization with tools including Docker, Buildah and Podman. 4. Performing Linux administration and shell scripting. 3 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Creating technical guides, patterns and learning materials intended for use by readers inexperienced with application containerization and Kubernetes. 2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required: 1. Integrating applications with monitoring tools including Dynatrace, Fluent Bit, Splunk, Prometheus or Grafana.
We are offering a salary of $138,486.00 - $190,206.72/yr.
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 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 childcare 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/GSRnon-HTHD
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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