Platform Engineer – Infrastructure

Ford Motor Company

Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer at Ford Credit, designing and operating cloud platforms for product teams. Responsibilities include improving reliability, security, and automation workflows.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $68,300 - $192,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (networking, compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, secrets, certificates, identity).
Define and improve reliability using service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
Implement observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting focused on user impact.
Create self-service workflows and automation (infrastructure as code, GitOps, build/release pipelines) that reduce toil.
Improve security and compliance through least-privilege access, secure defaults, policy-as-code, and continuous hardening.
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident reviews; drive systemic fixes and runbook quality.
Partner with application teams to improve deployability, resilience, and cost efficiency (capacity planning, autoscaling, graceful degradation).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors of Science Degree
5 year’s experience in software development
Experience operating production cloud platforms and services (e.g., GCP/AWS/Azure) with an SRE mindset.
Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, distributed systems, and debugging complex production issues.
Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, GitOps tooling).
Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD.
Programming and scripting ability (e.g., Go, Python, Java, TypeScript) to build tooling and automate workflows.
Clear communication, effective incident leadership, and a customer-focused approach to platform work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureKubernetesCI/CDinfrastructure as codeGitOpsTerraformDockerGoPythonJava

Soft Skills

clear communicationeffective incident leadershipcustomer-focused approach

Certifications

Bachelors of Science Degree