Virtualization Platform Automation Engineer, Admin

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

📋 Description

• Create automation solutions and playbooks for virtualization configuration modifications, auditing, remediation, and integration with ticketing systems.

• Leverage automation to efficiently deliver operator updates and changes at scale.

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

• Deploy and audit role-based access controls.

• Oversee namespaces and manage resource quotas.

• Design and maintain automation tools using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and C.

• Design, utilize, and troubleshoot APIs for service integration and workflow automation.

• Establish and support GitOps workflows for configuration, deployments, and infrastructure modifications.

• Automate processes for building, testing, deployment, and operations.

• Diagnose issues with scripts, applications, APIs, and automation pipelines.

• Collaborate with developers, operations teams, application teams, and stakeholders.

• Document tools, integrations, tests, procedures, and platform capabilities.

• Utilize AI tools for coding, troubleshooting, documentation, and workflow enhancement while assessing and testing outputs.

• Implement comprehensive observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing for the OpenShift Virtualization environment.

• Establish event-driven architecture for real-time monitoring and response.

• Identify anomalies and observability blind spots.

• Conduct root cause analysis across the global compute environment.

• Monitor VM health, resource utilization, performance metrics, unusual activities, and potential compromises or misconfigurations.

• Provide virtualization technical consulting to application teams.

• Design, implement, and validate custom clusters and VM solutions for critical applications.

• Engage in VMware and OpenShift Virtualization capacity planning and forecasting.

• Analyze resource utilization and suggest scaling, consolidation, or optimization strategies.

• Collaborate on future demand and project capacity requirements.

• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports.

• Maintain internal documentation and customer-facing Ford documentation content.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Over 8 years of experience as a developer (automation) and IT infrastructure specialist in virtualization solutions.

• More than 2 years focused on Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Virtualization.

• Proficiency in programming and scripting with Bash, PowerShell, and Python for automation purposes.

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

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.

• Experience in engineering, administering, and automating VMware in a production environment.

• Understanding of VMware, OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), and Kubernetes concepts.

• Experience with Linux administration and foundational networking.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, as well as logging solutions.

• Experience designing or consuming APIs.

• Familiarity with containers and deployment processes.

• Understanding of repeatable, reviewable infrastructure and configuration changes.

• Awareness of service health, incident response, and strategies to prevent recurring operational issues.

• Experience in securely handling authentication tokens and credentials.

• Experience in writing and maintaining unit tests.

• Familiarity with GitOps principles and Git-based workflows.

• Experience using Git for version control and collaborative development.

• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• Nice to have: experience with Jenkins and/or Tekton.

• Nice to have: experience with Ansible or similar configuration management tools.

• Preferred: bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• Candidates must possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

🏝️ 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.

• Reimbursement for adoption and surrogacy expenses.

• Coverage for fertility treatments.

• Vehicle discount program for employees and their family members.

• Management leases.

• Tuition assistance.

• Established and active 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.

• Option to purchase additional vacation time.