Engineering Manager, DevOps & Platform Engineering

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

1d • $165,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford Pro is a global business within Ford Motor Company that delivers productivity solutions to commercial customers, including vehicles, charging infrastructure, software, and services. The Ford Pro Intelligence technology team powers the digital backbone of Ford Pro Telematics and Data Services. Ford Pro Telematics provides near-real-time fleet data and insights to help customers improve performance, reduce downtime, and streamline operations.

Ford is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow its DevOps team. The manager will shape the team's direction and operating practices and help engineering teams build, deploy, and run software reliably. This people-management role calls for developing talent, navigating cross-functional priorities and organizational dynamics, and providing technical guidance for DevOps and platform engineering work.

Success includes establishing clear team priorities and growth opportunities; enabling safer, more efficient delivery through reliable platform capabilities; improving operational practices for reliability issues, incidents, and recurring toil; building effective cross-functional partnerships; and balancing reliability, security, developer experience, and delivery needs on the team roadmap.

This is a leadership level 6 position with a salary range of $165,000–$200,000. Final salary grade and base salary will depend on the candidate's skills and experience, job scope, responsibility, and competitive market value. Visa sponsorship is not available. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States, with employment eligibility verified at hire.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a proven record of hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining talent.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and/or DevOps.
• Extensive experience leading teams in Agile environments, including managing sprints and improving delivery practices and velocity.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud infrastructure, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to set priorities, manage delivery commitments, and balance speed, reliability, security, and quality.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the maturity to navigate cross-functional priorities and build alignment.
• A continuous-improvement mindset and focus on making engineering systems and team practices more effective.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering and operating high-scale web applications and telemetry solutions.
• Experience with GCP; experience with other major cloud platforms is also relevant.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps, and modern CI/CD systems.
• Experience improving developer experience, platform reliability, or the scalability of shared engineering services.
• Experience leading teams through platform modernization, organizational change, or operational improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, setting clear goals and supporting their growth, engagement, and career development.
• Hire and retain talent; build a healthy, inclusive team culture that fosters accountability, collaboration, and ownership.
• Set team direction and priorities with engineering, product, security, and operations stakeholders.
• Improve the tools and practices that help engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate services safely and efficiently.
• Guide the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, and developer self-service capabilities.
• Promote reliability and operational readiness through observability, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
• Help teams balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, quality, and cost.
• Establish useful engineering standards and paved paths without unnecessary process or delays.
• Lead in Agile environments, support effective sprint planning and execution, and improve delivery practices and velocity.
• Partner with technical leads on architectural and operational decisions while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.
• Communicate team plans, priorities, progress, and risks to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Navigate competing priorities and disagreements constructively, build alignment through trust, and maintain team focus amid ambiguity or change.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day

What This Job Offers

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