Platform Engineering Manager

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.

• 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 next-generation platform capabilities in partnership with platform architects and technical teams.
• Research existing and emerging technologies and recommend solutions that support future infrastructure and cloud-native workloads.
• Evaluate tools and technologies for developing and deploying products on Ford’s eCommerce foundation layer.
• Partner with product teams to understand developer challenges and prioritize platform capabilities that improve Developer Experience.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical and non-functional specifications.
• Work with senior leaders across Enterprise Architecture and IT Operations to deliver measurable improvements to the platform.

• Lead, coach, and develop platform engineering team members, setting clear priorities, expectations, and accountability for delivery.
• Mentor engineers to strengthen their technical capabilities and support their professional growth.
• Build a collaborative, high-performing team focused on secure, reliable, and customer-centered platform services.
• Foster knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution across the platform engineering organization.
• Work effectively with global teams in remote and virtual environments.
• Facilitate technical discussions across diverse perspectives and help teams reach decisions or recommendations.
• Communicate effectively with executive leaders and stakeholders inside and outside the technology organization.
• Lead teams through change and build trusted partnerships across cloud, security, SRE, release management, and software engineering.

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using modern Dev Sec Ops  and platform engineering practices.
• Manage platform services using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, AlloyDB, and other managed services.
• Guide provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, gateways, security groups, managed services, Kubernetes…