Our employees are the source of our strength.

With the vision of being Turkey's most valuable and most preferred industrial company, we would like you to help us grow!

Job Description

As a DevOps Team Member at Ford Otosan, your main goal will be to streamline our software development and deployment process, allowing us to innovate and deploy at scale and with agility. Leveraging your experience, you will play a key role in improving and optimizing our DevOps practices, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency across our platforms.

Your role will be crucial in automating and optimizing our operations and processes, building and maintaining tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations. You will also contribute to strategic decisions regarding architecture, tooling, and DevOps methodologies while ensuring smooth operations in our dev, test, and production environments.

Key Responsibilities Include:

- Implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies.

- Understanding, implementing, and automating security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation.

- Managing production and development environments in cloud platforms.

- Building, maintaining, and monitoring configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps processes.

- Working with developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.

Experience

- 3-5 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role, preferably in an agile and cloud-native environment.

- Played a key role in automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.

- Designed and implemented proactive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure application performance and availability.

- Contributed to DevOps strategy by evaluating and recommending tools and methodologies for infrastructure automation and deployment.

- Facilitated seamless collaboration between development and operations teams, ensuring faster and more reliable software releases.

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

- Relevant certifications such as Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) are highly desirable.

Requirements

- Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work under pressure.

- Excellent team player with the ability to work within a collaborative environment.

- Good communication skills, both verbal and written.

- Proactive, self-motivated, and keen to learn and share knowledge.

Technical Skills and Competencies

- Cloud Platforms: Proficient in Azure Cloud services (Compute, Storage, Networking, AKS), with additional familiarity in AWS and GCP.

- CI/CD Tools: Extensive experience with Azure DevOps (tasks, repos, pipelines), jFrog Artifactory, Bazel and Argo CD.

- Containerization & Orchestration: Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

- Scripting & Automation: Strong proficiency in Python and Shell scripting, with basic knowledge of C++.

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Pulumi for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure is a plus.

- Monitoring & Logging: Familiar with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, and Azure-native monitoring solutions.

- Version Control: Extensive experience with Git and GitOps workflows.

- Networking & Security: Good understanding of networking protocols, firewalls, load balancers, and cloud-native security practices.

Role Location

• Istanbul and Ankara

What About Us?

Ford Otosan, being one of the top three exporting companies in Turkey since 2004, has achieved 12 consecutive years of automotive industry championship and is Turkiye goods product export champion for 8 years in a row. Ford Otosan operates in four main centers: Gölcük and Yeniköy Plants in Kocaeli, Eskişehir Plant in Eskişehir, Sancaktepe R&D Center and Spare Parts Warehouse in Istanbul, and Craiova Plant in Romania. We employ more than 20,000 people. Our Kocaeli and Eskişehir Plants are listed among Ford's 'Best Vehicle Production Centers,' and Eskişehir is the only factory in Turkiye that can produce vehicles, engines, and powertrains in the same center.

Ford Otosan stands out with its sensitivity to social responsibilities, carrying out several projects in education, healthcare, culture, arts, and sports under the "Future. Now" vision. Since 2013, we've been raising awareness on gender equality with our "Equality at Work" initiative. In 2021, we became the only automotive and the first industrial company from Turkiye to be included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index.

The building blocks of our new corporate culture, "Dynamic Balance," are mutual trust and respect, valuing each other, openness to change and innovation, and transparent communication. A common culture brings us together with a shared sense of purpose, fostering a positive atmosphere of trust and helping us build a stronger future.