HIL/SIL DevOps Engineer Champ

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The Ford Vehicle Controls - VMAPS team is seeking a DevOps Engineer to advance existing continuous integration & continuous development infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud (currently GCP) to allow development and release vehicle-simulation applications. Working in a fast-moving corporate environment, you will be a key member of the DevOps team that is responsible for deploying, maintaining and supporting CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g. GitHub, Jenkins, Jfrog, etc.) and producing build environments using an IaaS philosophy. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate frequently with various external teams (software developers, Corporate IT security, QA and modelling development)
• Support deployment of continuous integration pipelines from ground up.
• Monitor and maintain CI/CD builds and testing, analyze trends, and implement continuous improvements for reliability and build times.
• Debug MATLAB scripts and Simulink Models
• Develop and maintain VMs for developer and build environment.
• Develop and maintain Confluence documentation for tools and processes.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• BS  Computer science, Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering.
• High learning agility 
• Excellent team working skills
• Emotional resilience
• Highly organized
• Experience in of merging and branching code using Git/GitHub
• Experience in MATLAB and Simulink
• Experience writing scripts using C, Python, Groovy, or PowerShell

Nice to Haves (Desired Qualifications/Experience):

• Experience developing and maintaining Cloud CI/CD tools and environments in a

large enterprise (e.g. Git, Jenkins, Build automation tools, Nexus, Terraform etc.)

• Experience in Linux operating system
• Good written and verbal English communication skills
• Basic Vehicle knowledge GAS and EV
• Experience using and administering tools like GitHub, JIRA and Nexus
• Experience with cloud computing
• Familiarity with API’s