13 Sep
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Ford Motor
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India
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, build, automate, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. You will work closely with development and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available cloud-native platform capabilities. This role requires a strong engineering mindset, hands-on development experience, and expertise in platform automation, API integration, CI/CD, and GitOps practices. + Design, build, administer, and upgrade Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters. + Develop platform capabilities using automation, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies. + Build integrations between platform services and enterprise systems through APIs and automation frameworks. + Design and implement CI/CD and GitOps solutions using tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton. + Develop and maintain platform components using Go, Python, or equivalent programming languages. + Collaborate with engineering teams to build scalable and resilient cloud-native solutions. + Implement platform observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting practices. + Contribute to platform architecture, security, reliability, and operational excellence initiatives. + Support microservices-based workloads and distributed systems running on container platforms. + 6-10 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE),
or Cloud Infrastructure. + Solid experience administering Kubernetes and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), including cluster deployment, upgrades, lifecycle management, and automation. + Proficiency in software development with strong object-oriented programming concepts. + Hands-on development experience in Go, Python, or a similar programming language. + Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tools such as GitHub, Argo CD, and Tekton. + Experience designing and integrating APIs with an API-first engineering approach. + Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing platform solutions as an individual contributor. + Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks. + Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-native design principles. **Preferred Qualifications** Experience with one or more of the following: + Kubernetes Operators and Custom Controllers + Service Mesh technologies such as Istio + Observability platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Dynatrace, or similar tools + Storage technologies such as Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) + Secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault + Hybrid cloud and private cloud environments + Platform security, governance, and compliance best practices
📌 Senior Platform Engineer (OpenShift, Kubernetes & GitOps) (India)
🏢 Ford Motor
📍 India