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Ford Motor Company Compute - Project Manager - E in India
This is a Virtualization Server Hosting Engineering position in Enterprise Technology.
Virtualization Hosting service enablement
Capacity Management
Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the platforms, including Compute/Virtual Machine (VM), memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion
Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization
Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs
Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning
Automation & Efficiency
Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive VMware/OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing
Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)
Observability, Monitoring, logging and Troubleshooting
Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the VMware/OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana
Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real time monitoring and response
Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability
Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially utilizing available tooling, to quickly identify and resolve issues across the global compute environment
Find the needle in a haystack/unhealthy bit in the compute universe (Globally) for faster time to resolution
Monitor VM health, resource usage, and performance metrics proactively
Monitor for unusual activity that might indicate a compromise or misconfiguration
Solution Design & Consulting
Provide technical consulting and expertise to application teams requiring VMware/OSV solutions
Design, implement, and validate custom or dedicated OSV clusters and VM solutions for critical applications with unique or complex requirements (e.g., specialized appliances)
Knowledge Management
- Create, maintain, and update comprehensive internal documentation and customer facing content to facilitate self-service and clearly articulate platform capabilities
Support
Participate in L1 – L3 level support to Operations teams environmental related issues. Monthly after hours and weekend work will be required
Responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration, and protection of Global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of infrastructure systems, line of business and third-party application needs
Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization (VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (OSV)) suite of products
Responsible for the entire lifecycle of technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software
Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
Demonstrates knowledge of hardware and software products
Research industry best practices and trends
Global large-scale deployments of virtualization technologies
Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant ILO and firmware field testing
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Total 10+ years IT experience including 4+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 3+ years demonstrable experience focused on VMware, Kubernetes and/or OpenShift
Understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts
Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals
Proficiency in scripting languages for automation
Experience with monitoring tools and logging solutions
Understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies (e.g., KVM, VMware)
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers of the stack
Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Self-starter. Be on a mission to go where the work is. Look for opportunities to evolve services
Requisition ID : 59297