Director, Continuous Integration, DevSecOps

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

 
Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

In this position... 

We are seeking a highly-skilled and experienced Continuous Integration DevOps Leader to join our dynamic IT team. In this role, you will be responsible for successfully rolling out the full push button automation that achieves thousands of hourly/daily builds, ensuring smooth and efficient software delivery at a very high cadence for continuous software updates to vehicles. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, who are both creating CI capabilities for vehicles as well as operating, collaborate with cross-functional teams and driving the adoption of best practices in CI and DevOps across the organization.

What you'll do...          

• Develop and implement the Automotive centric CI strategy aligned with the company’s goals
• Roll CI with full push button automation that achieves hourly/daily builds at a large scale
• Understand Infra as Code and knows the tools to use to achieve that
• Lead Branching and the best strategy for large teams (Trunk/Main Brank with Dev Branch)
• Continuous Delivery (internal) from Continuous Deployment (external)
• Extensive experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Tekton)
• Strong background in software development and scripting languages (Python, Go, NodeJS)
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and automation
• Design, build, and maintain scalable CI pipelines
• Ensure reliable and efficient software builds, tests and deployments.
• Implement tools and frameworks for automated testing, integration and deployment
• Terraform, HelmCharts understanding
• Success with deploying Cloud applications on GCP, AWS or Azure
• Cloud SaaS DevOps Experience
• Vehicle to Cloud DevOps 

You’ll have...

• Has managed teams of 60+
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Extremely strong project management, time management
• Organized, good writer, good presenter
• Very good team worker across other engineering teams
• Conflict resolution / defuse tense situations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment

Even better, you may have…

• Experience with CI automation for the automotive industry
• Proficiency in version control systems (Git)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible)

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up p