Platform Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Company • Dearborn, MI

5h • $132,800 - $250,800 • Hybrid

About The Position

Ford is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing evolution of its Internal Developer Platform (IDP) for the Marketing and Sales Technology organization. The role guides self-service capabilities for CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and platform orchestration, helping product teams improve developer experience and deliver software securely and efficiently on Ford’s eCommerce foundation.

The position combines platform engineering and cloud expertise with people leadership, delivery accountability, and cross-functional collaboration. The manager partners with product teams, platform architects, Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations, security, SRE, and release-management teams to translate business needs into technical capabilities and measurable platform outcomes. Responsibilities span cloud platform engineering and DevSecOps, reliability, security, observability, FinOps, and continuous improvement, including adoption of AI-enabled automation and AIOps.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience developing and maintaining self-service platform products for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, and observability.
• Experience leading platform engineering delivery, cloud infrastructure initiatives, or DevSecOps adoption.
• Experience managing or operating GCP services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB, and other managed services.
• Experience provisioning cloud infrastructure such as VPCs, subnets, gateways, security groups, managed services, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, and Argo CD.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, GKE, and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and platform security tools, including SonarQube, Cycode, 42Crunch, Astra, JFrog Xray, container vulnerability scanning, and FOSSA.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, including microservices, micro frontends, event-driven systems, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, serverless, and containerized applications.
• Working knowledge of microservices frameworks such as Spring Boot or Micronaut.
• Experience building scalable, reliable, and available cloud-native or transactional systems, including multi-tenant environments.
• Experience with team leadership, mentoring, technical delivery, and coordination across stakeholder groups.
• Experience working with product teams to understand requirements and improve developer productivity and experience.
• Experience driving high availability, disaster recovery, auto-scaling, and multi-region platform practices.
• Strong engineering and delivery background and the ability to guide technical talent on quality and delivery practices.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively with executive leadership and global teams.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred degree: Bachelor of Engineering.
• Experience with Agentic AI, AIOps, or deploying, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents for platform engineering automation.
• Experience implementing and managing auto-scaling, disaster recovery, high availability, and multi-region Active/Active or Active/Passive configurations.
• Expertise with patch management and observability/APM tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Experience with Cloud FinOps and optimizing cloud infrastructure consumption costs.
• Experience with five-nines availability, multi-tenancy, containerization, and performance testing.
• Experience driving Shift Left quality, security, and open-source software practices and Shift Right platform engineering adoption.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Internal Developer Platform, including self-service services for CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and platform orchestration.
• Lead delivery and evolution of platform capabilities in partnership with platform architects and technical teams.
• Research emerging technologies and evaluate tools for Ford’s eCommerce foundation and future cloud-native workloads.
• Partner with product teams to understand developer challenges and prioritize capabilities that improve Developer Experience.
• Translate business needs into technical and non-functional specifications and work with senior leaders to deliver measurable platform improvements.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop platform engineering team members; establish priorities, expectations, accountability, and professional growth.
• Build a collaborative, high-performing team and foster knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution.
• Facilitate technical discussions, communicate with executive leaders and stakeholders, and build partnerships across global teams and cloud, security, SRE, release-management, and software engineering groups.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using DevSecOps and platform engineering practices.
• Manage GCP platform services and guide provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, GKE, and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code reviews and the automation and deployment of cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, and Argo CD.
• Manage and improve CI/CD capabilities using tools such as Tekton, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
• Establish and implement practices for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using the listed security and quality tools.
• Build repeatable DevSecOps automation and connect CI/CD with infrastructure services to improve software engineering productivity.
• Lead adoption of DevSecOps, observability, and platform engineering practices; oversee patch management, monitoring, APM, and alerting.
• Guide implementation and management of auto-scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region Active/Active and Active/Passive architectures.
• Partner with technical teams to address security, performance, and operational concerns and manage Cloud FinOps practices to monitor and optimize cloud costs.
• Advance Shift Left quality, security, and open-source practices alongside Shift Right platform engineering practices.
• Support AI-enabled automation and AIOps, including deployment, evaluation, and monitoring of AI agents for platform engineering service automation.
• Use platform, delivery, reliability, and cost insights to identify improvements and inform priorities; promote cloud-native practices across Marketing and Sales Technology.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
• 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.
• 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