CPS – Systems Developer

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Motor Company is hiring a CPS Systems Developer in Dearborn, Michigan. This hybrid position combines work from home and the Dearborn worksite, and employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance. The role builds and supports cloud-native platform solutions, primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to improve software deployment, scalability, security, and operational efficiency. The developer works with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, automation, observability, and SRE practices, and collaborates with application teams to provide a reliable, developer-friendly platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Systems Engineering, Software Development, Computer Science, Electronics, Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, or a related field.
• Five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
• Five years of experience building and maintaining systems with infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or AWS, including engineering, coding, and supporting infrastructure deployed as code.
• Five years of experience building CI/CD automation for deploying and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and applications, including automated build, test, notification, and release processes using versioning and release best practices.
• Five years of experience using Google Cloud Platform and its native services, making architectural and engineering recommendations, and managing 15,000 or more Google Cloud projects or a similar number of AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions.
• Five years of software development experience creating custom tools and systems to support platforms and their users, including new initiatives and maintenance of existing systems.
• Five years of systems engineering experience designing solutions for a GCP Operations team that meet architectural guidelines and maintain compliance, security, and infrastructure-as-code requirements.
• Five years of architectural experience designing solutions with native cloud services from GCP, AWS, or Azure while adhering to compliance, security, and release processes for operations and application teams.
• Five years of experience applying SRE practices to architect and deliver monitoring and alerting solutions for platforms and their components.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Responsibilities

• Design and build cloud-native solutions on GCP to improve software deployment, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Concourse, ArgoCD, and Tekton.
• Automate processes to improve developer productivity and system reliability.
• Develop reusable GCP infrastructure modules using Terraform or OpenTofu.
• Implement GCP permissions, roles, organization constraints, configurations, workload identity, and security best practices.
• Develop automation and API-related solutions using Go and Go templating, including tools that support internal systems.
• Create an intuitive, reliable, and easy-to-use platform with a developer-first mindset.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate solutions with GCP Cloud.
• Provide guidelines and best practices for GCP project and resource deployment pipelines, using tools such as Cloud Build and Terraform.
• Optimize pipelines for scalability, security, and repeatability.
• Troubleshoot complex GCP platform issues, application failures, and performance bottlenecks using diagnostic and debugging techniques.
• Implement and maintain enterprise-level observability across the GCP platform using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
• Ensure logging and metrics enable developers to monitor and diagnose application issues.
• Continuously enhance platform capabilities using developments in GCP, AWS, and other cloud technologies.
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and apply SRE principles to improve system resilience.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• 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: Senior