Introduction
This role is crucial in building the platform that enables Ford's connected vehicle architecture to scale beyond its current limits. The work involves eliminating single-cluster blast radius risk, enabling sharded multi-cloud deployment, and making GCP migration a reality. The work is technically challenging, the scale is significant, and the impact is direct.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 5 years of professional software or cloud engineering experience
- Experience provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS or GKE) in production
- Strong Terraform skills - writing modular, production-grade IaC with GitOps workflows
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent)
- Prior work experience in the automotive industry or related field
Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
- GCP experience: GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, workload identity, VPC-SC, Cloud Operations
- API gateway experience: Tyk, Apigee, or NGINX - routing, policy management, mTLS, SLI replication
- Service mesh experience: Istio traffic management, mTLS, and observability
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and maintaining the cloud platform and automation tooling
- Building cloud-native solutions that enable automated, repeatable shard provisioning
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, or Concourse
For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.