Platform Engineering Architect

Job ID: 71475
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Category: Enterprise Technology

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Job Type: Full time
Work Type: Hybrid

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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, DevSecOps, 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.

Platform Engineering Strategy & Architecture

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.
Define and evolve the infrastructure architecture for next-generation platforms, researching current and emerging technologies and recommending solutions for future workload needs.
Evaluate and select technologies and tools that support product development and deployment on the eCommerce foundation layer.
Partner with product teams to understand developer pain points and improve the Developer Experience through platform engineering capabilities.
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical and non-functional specifications.
Work with senior leaders across Ford’s Enterprise Architecture and IT Operations organizations to deliver measurable improvements to the eCommerce platform.
Champion platform engineering and observability practices across the organization.

Cloud Infrastructure, Automation & DevSecOps

Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure platforms using modern DevSecOps and platform engineering practices.
Provision and automate Google Cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, gateways, security groups, managed services, and Kubernetes clusters.
Build and maintain infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, and Argo CD.
Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews and automate the deployment of cloud infrastructure.
Build repeatable automation for DevSecOps tasks and improve software engineer productivity through integrated CI/CD and infrastructure provisioning services.
Establish and apply best practices for code quality, security, performance, and scalability using tools such as SonarQube, Cycode, 42Crunch, Astra, build-time container vulnerability scanning, and FOSSA.
Apply patch management, security controls, and operational practices that support platform reliability and maintainability.

Developer Platforms, Cloud-Native Systems & AI

Develop and maintain self-service platform products for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, and observability.
Apply cloud-native architectures and technologies, including microservices, micro frontends, APIs, serverless, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Support architectures and 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.
Implement and monitor AI agents that automate platform engineering services, improve developer productivity, and support platform operations.
Support Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agentic AI capabilities for platform engineering.
Apply AI Operations (AIOps) practices to improve platform automation and Developer Experience.
Advance Shift Left practices for quality, security, and open-source software use, alongside Shift Right platform engineering practices.

Reliability, Performance & Observability

Design and apply auto-scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region Active/Active and Active/Passive patterns.
Create and maintain architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for high availability and disaster recovery.
Use observability and application performance tools—including Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk—to monitor platform health and support incident diagnosis.
Analyze kernel logs, network statistics, application logs, and APM metrics to troubleshoot CPU, memory, and resource hotspots, API latency, and platform-health issues.
Identify root causes and resolve complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software across GCP, Azure, or AWS environments.
Identify infrastructure-layer vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks and recommend solutions to improve subsystem quality and performance.
Apply Cloud FinOps practices to understand and optimize cloud infrastructure consumption costs.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor engineers, helping technical team members grow and succeed.
Partner with cloud, security, SRE, release management, and other technical domain experts to deliver secure and reliable platform capabilities.
Facilitate technical discussions among diverse stakeholders and help teams reach decisions or recommendations.
Communicate architecture decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical teams and executive leaders.
Work effectively with global teams in remote and virtual environments and help lead teams through technical and organizational change.

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, DevSecOps, 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, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
Experience with containers and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, and Red Hat OpenShift.
Experience with application and infrastructure security practices and tools, including SonarQube, Cycode, 42Crunch, Astra, container vulnerability scanning, and FOSSA.
Knowledge of microservices architectures and frameworks such as Spring Boot, Micronaut, Ratpack, or Quarkus.
Experience with cloud-native architectures, micro frontends, event-driven systems, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, and serverless technologies.
Working knowledge of multiple programming languages and of multithreading, concurrency, and parallel processing concepts as they relate to scalability, performance, and consistency.
Experience with REST APIs, messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or cloud Pub/Sub, and stream-processing technologies such as Spark or Storm.
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including technologies such as Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Memcached, or comparable systems.
Ability to analyze application and infrastructure performance, including logs, network statistics, kernel data, and APM metrics.

Preferred Experience

Experience implementing auto-scaling, disaster recovery, high availability, and multi-region Active/Active or Active/Passive architectures.
Experience with AIOps, Agentic AI automation, deploying and monitoring AI agents, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices.
Experience with five-nines availability, transactional systems, multi-tenancy, and large-scale eCommerce architectures.
Experience driving adoption of Shift Left quality, security, and open-source software practices and Shift Right platform engineering practices.
Experience mentoring senior technical talent and influencing platform strategy across multiple teams.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade LL6.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role*

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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From day one, Ford invests in you with medical benefits built to help you plan for what’s next. You’ll also get support for you and your family that meets you at every step, so you can move forward with confidence.

Health and Wellness

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, mental health, and unique wellness perks keep you and your family supported every step of the way.
Financial and Retirement Programs

Build a strong financial future with robust retirement contributions, savings programs, and free personalized financial planning tools.
Flexible Vacation and Holidays

Enjoy your time away from work with generous vacation, holidays, and flexible family leave designed to help you balance life and work with ease.
Vehicle Discount Program

The best thing about building great products is driving them! The second-best thing: sharing your discount with family and friends so they can drive them, too.
Family Growth and Support

Grow your family confidently with fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance, paid parental leave, and a supportive new-parent ramp-up program.
Additional Programs

Enjoy unexpected extras like pet insurance, legal services, identity protection, and access to convenient health and wellness services.

Ford gives me the space to innovate, to lead, and to serve — all while staying true to who I am as an engineer, educator, and parent. It’s not just a career; it’s a community that drives change.

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