Cloud Platform Virtualization Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Michigan.

📋 Description

• Oversee capacity planning and forecasting for the OpenShift Virtualization platform, focusing on compute, memory, storage, and network resources.

• Evaluate resource utilization patterns and suggest infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization strategies.

• Work collaboratively with application teams and stakeholders to assess future demand and capacity requirements.

• Create and maintain capacity models and comprehensive reports.

• Design automation solutions for configuration adjustments, VM management, auditing, remediation, and integration with ticketing systems.

• Automate operator updates and modifications at scale.

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to enhance platform stability, performance, and efficiency.

• Implement and review role-based access controls.

• Administer namespaces and resource quotas for CPU, disk, and storage.

• Establish and uphold end-to-end monitoring, logging, and tracing for the OpenShift Virtualization environment.

• Incorporate observability with Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana.

• Investigate Event Driven Architecture for real-time monitoring and response capabilities.

• Detect observability anomalies and blind spots.

• Conduct root cause analysis throughout the global compute environment.

• Actively monitor VM health, resource utilization, and performance metrics.

• Keep an eye on unusual activities that may indicate compromise or misconfiguration.

• Offer technical consulting to application teams that require OpenShift Virtualization solutions.

• Design, implement, and validate tailored or dedicated OSV clusters and VM solutions.

• Develop and maintain both internal documentation and customer-facing Ford documentation content.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• A minimum of 5 years in IT infrastructure and VMware.

• At least 2 years of experience specifically in Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or GitOps.

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.

• Demonstrated experience in engineering, administering, and automating VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) within production environments.

• Strong grasp of VMware and Kubernetes concepts.

• Experience in Linux administration and foundational networking principles.

• Proficiency in Bash or Python scripting for automation purposes.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, along with logging solutions.

• Solid understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies.

• Ability to diagnose complex issues across various layers of the stack.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Preference for familiarity with software-defined networking and software-defined storage.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Immediate coverage for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drugs.

• Flexible family care days.

• Paid parental leave.

• Programs for easing new parent transitions.

• Subsidized backup childcare services.

• Reimbursement for adoption and surrogacy expenses.

• Support for fertility treatments.

• Vehicle discount program available for employees and their family members.

• Management lease options.

• Tuition assistance programs.

• Established and active employee resource groups.

• Paid time off for individual and team community service activities.

• Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day.

• Generous paid time off policy.

• Option to purchase additional vacation days.

• Visa sponsorship available.

• Relocation assistance is not provided.