Technical Architect

Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using the latest Dev Sec Ops  and Platform Engineering methodologies

Create and implement best practices and processes for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using Sonarqube, Cycode, DAST, SAST & FOSSA

Strong experience using GCP specific services like Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud operations suite, Service Mesh, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, Alloy

DB, Vertex AI, Big Query, Cloud SQL and other managed services.

Google Cloud infrastructure provisioning including VPC, Subnet, Gateway, Security groups, managed services, Kubernetes Cluster etc.

Expertise with automating Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Shell Scripting and ArgoCD

Lead cross-functional teams to drive the adoption of Dev Sec Ops  and Platform Engineering best practices across the organization

Experience in implementing Auto scaling, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Multi-region Active/Active & Active/Passive configurations & best practices is added advantage.

Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and tools to support the development and deployment of products on the eCommerce foundation layer

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and requirements, and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications

Work with Product teams to understand their pain points and increase the Developer Experience through Platform Engineering Capabilities

Experience with Internal Developer Platform (IDP) like Backstage and address developer productivity

Strategize & work with senior leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations to make significant, measurable impact on the eCommerce Platform

Expertise with patch management, APM tools like Dynatrace/App Dynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK for monitoring and alerting.

Experience in Elastic Search service offerings in K8s.

Experience in Cloud Fin Ops to optimize Cloud Infrastructure Consumption Cost

Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape

Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure

Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience

Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems

Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios

Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health

Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance

Build Automation for repeatable Dev Sec Ops  tasks and help with improving Software Engineers’ productivity

Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level

Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science or equivalent

A minimum of 10+ years experience in Cloud Technologies and Platform Engineering

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members

Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation

Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams

Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization

Ability to lead through change

Experience with the following:
Microservices architectures , Micro Front-end Cloud-Native architectures,…