CPS – Systems Developer

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.

What you'll be able to do:

CPS – Systems Developer - 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.  Design and build cloud-native solutions on the GCP public cloud to improve software deployment, scalability, and operational efficiency. Develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools such as Concourse, ArgoCD, and Tekton. Focus on automation to improve developer productivity and system reliability. Leverage infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and OpenTofu to develop reusable modules for GCP and its infrastructure components. Implement permissions, roles, organization constraints, configurations, workload identity, and security best practices to ensure secure access and management of GCP workloads. Demonstrate expertise in Go for developing automation solutions related to API development and management. Use Go and Go templating to build solutions based on internal tools that heavily rely on this language. Maintain a developer-first mindset to create an intuitive, reliable, and easy-to-use platform. Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration with GCP Cloud. Provide guidelines and best practices for GCP project and resource deployment pipelines, leveraging tools like Cloud Build and Terraform to manage and deploy GCP configurations effectively. Ensure pipelines are optimized for scalability, security, and repeatability. Offer deep troubleshooting expertise to help developers identify and resolve complex issues across the GCP Cloud, focusing on debugging platform issues, application failures, and performance bottlenecks. Use diagnostic tools and debugging techniques to resolve critical platform challenges. Implement and maintain observability at the enterprise level across the GCP platform using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools like Prometheus, Dynatrace, and Splunk. Ensure proper logging and metrics are in place to enable developers to effectively monitor and diagnose application issues. Continuously enhance platform capabilities using the latest trends and advancements in GCP, AWS, and other cloud technologies. Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system resilience.

You'll have...

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Systems Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Electronics, Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering 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. Building and maintaining systems with infrastructure as code tooling using Terraform or AWS including engineering, coding, and supporting all infrastructure deployed with Infrastructure as code.  2. Building Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation to deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code and applications including providing a fully automated release process with building, testing, notifications, and released using versioning and release best practices. 3. Utilizing the Google Cloud Platform and its native services including making architectural and engineering decisions and recommendations for infrastructure teams and application teams, managing 15,000 plus Google Cloud Projects or similar number of accounts or subscriptions in AWS or Azure. 4. Software development utilizing and creating custom tooling to support the platform and teams that consume the platform including development of new systems to support new initiatives and maintenance of existing systems.  5. Systems engineering utilizing available technologies and vendors to be able to properly engineer solutions for GCP Operations team to meet architectural guidelines while maintaining compliance, security, and IaC requirements. 6. Utilizing architectural experience to architect a new solution to solve problems using native cloud services for leading providers (GCP, AWS, or Azure) while adhering to compliance, security, and release processes for both the GCP Operations team and consuming application teams.  7. Utilizing Site Reliability Engineering practices to architect and deliver monitoring and alerting solutions for the platform as a whole as well as all the individual components of the GCP Operations team tooling.

We are offering a salary of $147,077.00 - $192,925.08/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 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.

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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.

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