In this position...
As a Cloud Network Engineer your primary responsibility will be ensuring that our GCP network environment is stable, secure, resilient, and agile to accommodate current and future project needs. This will involve partnering with your Cloud Network Delivery peer group in operational support, technical design, and driving best-of-breed technical standards into the environment in an evolving fashion.
As this role is part of our continued growth and technical evolution in our cloud environments, agility is a must have regarding being able to handle context switching through project delivery and operational support response. With a relentless focus on our customers, high-quality engineering, and a curiosity driven approach this role is critical to propel and shape our technical future
What you'll do...
+ Design and support GCP network environments by leveraging cloud native services such as Network Connectivity Center (NCC), Cloud VPN, Cloud Load Balancers, VPC Constructs, and Service Networking.
+ Provide consistent design patterns to support a wide array of connected services such as SaaS providers, on-premise systems, and internal GCP services.
+ Participate in an on-call rotation and act as an escalation point as needed to support production environment needs.
+ Deliver projects through cloud network constructs to support ongoing business requirements for a variety of internal stakeholders.
+ Clearly articulate and communicate how technical components can support various environments within our cloud platform to peer groups, partner teams, and internal stakeholders.
+ Interface with vendor teams to shape and adopt future product offerings within the GCP network space
You'll have...
+ Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
+ 7 years of experience in network engineering roles.
+ 5 years of experience in delivering GCP network environments.
+ Expert level understanding of GCP service networking constructs such as Private Service Access and Private Service Connect.
+ Advanced understanding of GCP Network Connectivity Center (NCC).
+ Advanced understanding of GCP load balancing offerings (Internal vs External | Scope | Traffic Type).
+ Advanced understanding of Cloud VPN, Interconnect, and Proxy based connectivity offering within GCP.
+ Advanced understanding of TCP/IP stack with the ability to diagnose, interpret, and deliver solutions based on packet captures.
Even better, you may have...
+ Master's Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
+ Advanced understanding of packet-flow decision process with a focus on path determination, packet overhead constraints, fragmentation, and flow manipulation.
+ Experience in delivering Cloud CDN solutions with a focus on cache vs origin delivery optimization.
+ Experience delivering Infrastructure As Code solutions.
+ Experience with Jira and ServiceNow.
+ Ability to deliver baseline health monitoring to accommodate error budgeting and target specific SLI and SLO measurements.
+ Self-starting capabilities and the ability to thrive in an autonomous environment.
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 programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a salary grade 8.
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This position is a range of salary grades 6-8 .
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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**Requisition ID** : 48717