Cloud Platform Engineer – SRE & DevOps (Hybrid)

Ford; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,400 - 192,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Job summary

Ford is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platforms and related reliability practices used by hundreds of engineers. You will automate infrastructure, define reliability targets, and create self-service workflows that reduce toil, while participating in on-call rotations and driving systemic improvements.

This role emphasizes cloud infrastructure, DevOps and SRE skills, with coding in Go/Python/Java/TypeScript and strong Linux,

Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science Degree
• 7 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.

Responsibilities

• 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).

Skills

Cloud platforms

SRE

Infrastructure as code

Automation scripting

Linux fundamentals

Networking

Observability

On-call incident leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS or related)

Tools

Terraform

Helm/Kustomize

GitOps tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Ford is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platforms and related reliability practices used by hundreds of engineers. You will automate infrastructure, define reliability targets, and create self-service workflows that reduce toil, while participating in on-call rotations and driving systemic improvements.

This role emphasizes cloud infrastructure, DevOps and SRE skills, with coding in Go/Python/Java/TypeScript and strong Linux,