Platform Engineering Architect
Ford Motor11 days ago
Dearborn, MI, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$116k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the architecture of Internal Developer Platforms and Agentic Developer Platforms with self-service CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and orchestration capabilities.
- Design, provision, automate, and maintain secure, scalable, highly available Google Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
- Build infrastructure automation and DevSecOps workflows using Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, Argo CD, and CI/CD tools.
- Develop platform products for Infrastructure as Code, cloud services, observability, and developer experience improvement.
- Implement cloud-native architectures, AI agents, MCP and AIOps capabilities for platform engineering automation.
- Design auto-scaling, disaster recovery, multi-region, Active/Active, and Active/Passive architectures.
- Monitor and troubleshoot platform health, performance, reliability, vulnerabilities, and resource usage using observability and APM tools.
- Apply cloud FinOps practices to optimize infrastructure consumption costs.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, communicate architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, security, SRE, operations, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- 15+ years of relevant professional experience.
- Strong experience with platform engineering, self-service capabilities, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud provisioning, and observability.
- Experience with Google Cloud services including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Operations suite, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Cloud Scheduler, Bigtable, and AlloyDB.
- Expertise with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, shell scripting, NX Cloud, Helm, Argo CD, Tekton, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, containers, orchestration, cloud-native systems, and multi-tenant platforms.
- Experience with application and infrastructure security tools including SonarQube, Cycode, 42Crunch, Astra, container vulnerability scanning, and FOSSA.
- Knowledge of Spring Boot, Micronaut, Ratpack, Quarkus, microservices, micro frontends, event-driven systems, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, and serverless technologies.
- Working knowledge of multiple programming languages, multithreading, concurrency, parallel processing, REST APIs, messaging, and stream processing.
- Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark, Storm, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Memcached, or comparable technologies.
- Experience analyzing logs, network statistics, kernel data, APM metrics, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure issues.
- Preferred experience includes AI agents, Agentic AI, MCP, AIOps, observability tools, FinOps, five-nines availability, large-scale eCommerce, and multi-region architectures.
- Strong communication, stakeholder collaboration, technical mentorship, decision facilitation, and ability to lead through organizational change.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, plus management leases.
- Tuition assistance and employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Paid time off with an option to purchase additional vacation time.
- The role is hybrid, as indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
- The position is salary grade LL6 and leadership level 6.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraApache HBaseApache KafkaApache SparkApache StormArgo CDAWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBOpenShiftPrometheusRabbitMQSonarQubeSplunkSpring BootTektonTerraform
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About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.