Platform Engineering Manager

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 a secure, reliable developer platform can help teams deliver better products, faster? Ford’s Marketing and Sales Technology organization depends on scalable cloud infrastructure, automated delivery, and strong platform engineering to support its eCommerce foundation. That’s where this role makes an impact.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead the delivery and ongoing evolution of Ford’s Internal Developer Platform (IDP). You will guide the development of self-service capabilities for CI/CD automation, infrastructure provisioning, and platform orchestration, helping product teams improve their development experience and deliver software securely and efficiently.

This role combines platform engineering and cloud expertise with people leadership, delivery accountability, and cross-functional collaboration. You will partner 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.

Qualifications We recognize that no one person will embody every quality or skill listed below. If you are passionate about cloud platforms, developer experience, and leading teams that deliver secure and reliable platform services, 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
12+ years of relevant professional 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 Dev Sec Ops  adoption.

Experience managing or operating services on GCP and supporting cloud-native application development.

Experience with team leadership, mentoring, technical delivery, and coordinating across multiple 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.

Experience partnering with cloud, security, SRE, and release-management teams.

Strong communication, interpersonal, facilitation, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work effectively with executive leadership and global teams.

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

Strong experience with GCP services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB, and other managed services.

Experience managing cloud infrastructure provisioning, including 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, Git Hub Actions, and Jenkins.

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, GKE, and Red Hat Open Shift.

Knowledge of Dev Sec Ops  and…