Platform Engineering Architect

Job-:
Enterprise Technology

Location:

Dearborn, MI, United States Workplace:
Hybrid

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Closes:
Preferred Degree:
Bachelor of Engineering At Ford, we are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves, and build a better world—together. At Ford, we’re all part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to help change the way the world moves?

Do you believe modern, secure, and scalable platforms can help teams build and deliver better software? Ford’s Marketing and Sales Technology organization depends on reliable cloud infrastructure, streamlined developer experiences, and strong platform engineering to support its eCommerce foundation. That’s where this role makes an impact.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Architect to shape the architecture and evolution of Ford’s next-generation platforms. In this individual-contributor role, you will help own and manage the architecture of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and Agentic Developer Platforms (ADPs), including self-service capabilities for CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and platform orchestration.

This role combines hands-on cloud and platform engineering with architecture leadership, Dev Sec Ops , automation, and technical mentorship. You will partner with product teams, senior leaders, Enterprise Architecture, IT Operations, security, SRE, and other technical domains to translate business and developer needs into secure, scalable, and highly available platform capabilities.

Qualifications We recognize that no one person will embody every quality or skill listed below. If you bring deep platform engineering expertise and are motivated to improve cloud platforms and developer experiences, we encourage you to apply.

Education Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline—or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred degree:
Bachelor of Engineering.

Experience
15+ years of relevant professional experience.

Experience designing, developing, and maintaining self-service platform products for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, and observability.

Experience with cloud-native systems, platform engineering, Dev Sec Ops , and public cloud environments, particularly Google Cloud Platform.

Experience building scalable, reliable, and highly available solutions, including containerized and multi-tenant systems.

Experience with performance testing, platform monitoring, and troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues.

Experience deploying, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents for platform engineering automation.

Experience collaborating with technical leaders and teams across cloud, security, SRE, release management, and software engineering.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engage executive leaders and facilitate decisions across teams.

Ability to work effectively with global teams, lead through change, and provide technical mentorship.

Required Technical Experience Strong experience with platform engineering and self-service capabilities for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud provisioning, and observability.

Experience with GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, and AlloyDB.Experience provisioning Google Cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, gateways, security groups, managed services, and Kubernetes clusters.

Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, and Argo CD.

Experience with CI/CD tools such as Tekton, Git Hub Actions, and Jenkins.

Experience with …