Platform Engineering Senior Engineer

Position Description :

Job Title : OpenShift Virtualization Engineer / Cloud Platform Engineer (OpenShift Virtualization) Job Summary : We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced 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 OpenShift Virtualization (Kube Virt) service. You will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our virtualized workloads, leveraging your expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and virtualization technologies. This position requires a strong understanding of day-2 operations, proactive monitoring, and a commitment to operational excellence. Key Responsibilities : 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
• 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

Experience Required :

Required Qualifications :

Experience Preferred :

Preferred Qualifications :

Education Required : Bachelor's Degree

Education Preferred :

Master's Degree

Education

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech / B.E), Masters in Technology (M.Tech / M.E)

Skills Required

Kubernetes, Openshift, Deployment, Services, Linux, Python, Scripting, Dynatrace, VMware, Problem Solving, Communications, Redhat, Terraform, Ansible, Github, Gcp, Aws, Azure, Cloud Infrastructure, Devops