DAT DevOps Engineer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford’s ADAS DevOps Team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and operate platforms and pipelines supporting advanced driver-assistance systems software and tooling. The role focuses on reliable, secure, and scalable CI/CD automation, particularly GitHub Actions, large-scale C/C++ build systems, and Bazel. The engineer will partner with software and infrastructure teams to improve build performance, streamline development workflows, and support safety-critical engineering. This hybrid position requires onsite work four or more days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 2 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Hands-on production experience with GitHub Actions for building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• At least 2 years of experience with Docker-based containerization.
• At least 2 years of experience with Linux fundamentals.
• At least 2 years of experience with Python scripting.
• At least 2 years of experience working with C and/or C++ codebases and build tooling.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across diverse engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for large mono-repos or multi-repo environments.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience supporting Bazel build systems in CI environments.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes deployments and operational patterns.
• Experience with Bazel build optimization techniques such as remote caching and parallelization.
• Familiarity with backend services or APIs built in Python using FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
• Experience implementing CI/CD observability, metrics, and alerting.
• Experience operating workloads on public cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Interest or familiarity with ADAS, embedded systems, robotics, or autonomous vehicle software.
• Experience with self-hosted GitHub Actions runners.
• Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
• Experience supporting ML or data-intensive CI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms supporting ADAS software development.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize GitHub Actions workflows for C/C++, Python, and multi-language build pipelines.
• Support and improve Bazel-based build systems, including build performance, caching, and CI integration.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Build, maintain, and deploy Docker containers and support Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Partner with software engineers to integrate CI/CD best practices into C/C++ development workflows.
• Improve CI/CD system reliability and observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate with cross-functional ADAS teams to remove DevOps, build, and infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Implement secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, artifact signing, and access controls.

Benefits

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