Cloud Platform Virtualization Engineer

Ford • ,

3d • $85,400 - $144,900 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced VMware and 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 Virtualization services. You will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our virtualized workloads, leveraging your expertise in VMware and OpenShift, and virtualization technologies. This position requires a strong understanding of architecting/engineering end-to-end solutions, day-2 operations, proactive monitoring, and a commitment to operational excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure and VMware and at least 2+ years focused on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible, Terraform, or GitOps.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
• Proven experience with engineering. administering and automating (IaC) VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) in a production environments.
• Strong understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts
• Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python) for automation.
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace) and logging solutions.
• Solid understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers of the stack.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Masters in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering field.
• Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) solutions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the OpenShift Virtualization platform, including compute, memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion.
• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization.
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs.
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning.
• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
• Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)
• 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 observability
• 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
• 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)
• 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

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level