Software Engineer

Cloud Platform EngineerThis role is crucial in building the platform that enables Ford's connected vehicle architecture to scale beyond its current limits. The work involves eliminating single-cluster blast radius risk, enabling sharded multi-cloud deployment, and making GCP migration a reality. The work is technically challenging, the scale is significant, and the impact is direct.Required Skills & Qualifications5 years of professional software or cloud engineering experienceExperience provisioning and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS or GKE) in productionStrong Terraform skills - writing modular, production-grade IaC with GitOps workflowsExperience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent)Prior work experience in the automotive industry or related fieldApplicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2Preferred Skills & QualificationsGCP experience: GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, workload identity, VPC-SC, Cloud OperationsAPI gateway experience: Tyk, Apigee, or NGINX - routing, policy management, mTLS, SLI replicationService mesh experience: Istio traffic management, mTLS, and observabilityDay-to-Day ResponsibilitiesDesigning, developing, and maintaining the cloud platform and automation toolingBuilding cloud-native solutions that enable automated, repeatable shard provisioningDeveloping and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Tekton, or Concourse