Platform Engineer - Infrastructure
About The Position
Ford Credit Platform Engineering builds and operates the shared infrastructure and paved paths that help product teams deliver securely, reliably, and quickly. As a Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer on our Platform Engineering team, you will design, build, and operate the cloud platforms and reliability practices that hundreds of engineers depend on every day. This role leans toward cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering, with strong software development skills. You will write code to automate infrastructure, define reliability targets, and create self-service workflows that eliminate toil. You will operate what you build, participate in on-call rotations, and drive systemic improvements from every incident.
Requirements
- Strong software development skills.
- Experience in cloud infrastructure.
- Experience in DevOps.
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Nice To Haves
- Treat platform capabilities as products with users, documentation, support, and a roadmap driven by real feedback.
- Partner closely with product engineering teams, security, and SRE to standardize patterns around identity, networking, CI/CD, secrets management, and deployment.
- Automate first: Eliminate repeatable manual work. Measure and reduce toil.
- Reliability is a feature: Design for failure with timeouts, retries with jitter, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
- Small, safe changes: Incremental delivery, clear rollback strategies, and continuous improvement.
- Engineering excellence: Design reviews, blameless postmortems, and strong documentation and runbooks.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud platforms and reliability practices.
- Write code to automate infrastructure.
- Define reliability targets.
- Create self-service workflows that eliminate toil.
- Operate what you build.
- Participate in on-call rotations.
- Drive systemic improvements from every incident.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
