Cloud Infrastructure Manager, Ford Energy

Ford • Dearborn, MI

15h • $132,800 - $250,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Cloud Infrastructure Manager – Ford Energy will lead the execution, engineering, and day-to-day operational excellence of our multi-cloud environment and enterprise hosting platforms supporting Ford Energy initiatives. In this leadership role, you will have direct ownership of our cloud strategy execution—specifically focusing on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and mission-critical SAP S/4HANA cloud infrastructure powering next-generation energy, battery, and electrification supply chain systems. Reporting to the Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations, this position plays a vital role in ensuring our enterprise cloud footprints remain secure, highly resilient, cost-effective, and fully optimized to support high-performance computing, manufacturing integration, and green energy operations. You will partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, SAP/ERP teams, and strategic partners to bridge strategy with tactical execution.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, and operations, with at least 3+ years in a dedicated cloud leadership or management capacity within enterprise environments.
• Deep hands-on experience and architecture knowledge in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enterprise environments (certifications preferred).
• Proven experience managing infrastructure, database sizing, high availability, and disaster recovery specifically for SAP S/4HANA or complex enterprise ERP systems hosted in the cloud.
• Strong background in compute, virtualization, Linux/Windows operating systems, enterprise storage, networking, backup/recovery, and infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Demonstrated experience managing cloud vendor relationships, managed service providers (MSPs), and cloud budgeting/FinOps.
• Familiarity with automotive, energy, manufacturing, or supply chain technology landscapes is a strong plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Certifications in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering, delivery, lifecycle management, and operational support across Azure and GCP environments tailored for Ford Energy platforms, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and high availability.
• Oversee the technical foundation, stability, disaster recovery, and high-performance hosting requirements for enterprise SAP S/4HANA workloads supporting energy and supply chain management.
• Drive initiatives focused on cloud optimization, workload migrations, automation, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and continuous improvement of cloud services tailored to manufacturing and energy demands.
• Implement robust FinOps practices to monitor cloud consumption, optimize spending, and enforce resource governance across Azure and GCP.
• Own availability, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, business continuity, and major incident resolution for all cloud-hosted energy platforms.
• Guide managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud platform account teams to ensure service level agreements (SLAs), operational hygiene, and accountability.
• Partner with Information Security and corporate governance teams to maintain strict security baselines, access controls, and audit readiness within a secure corporate environment.
• Proven leadership in managing large-scale, mission-critical cloud production environments with strict uptime SLAs, ensuring continuous operational stability for global manufacturing and energy systems.
• Direct experience establishing and running operational frameworks (ITIL-based) for major incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), proactive problem management, and change governance to minimize deployment risk.
• Hands-on oversight of enterprise monitoring, logging, and performance tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to ensure early detection and proactive remediation of infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Drive systematic, automated patching schedules, vulnerability remediation cycles, and hardware/software end-of-life tracking across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience managing a matrixed operations model spanning internal engineering teams, third-party managed service providers (MSPs), and global vendor support lines to maintain accountability and fast mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Performance-based bonuses
• Ford vehicle discounts
• 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
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager