Remote Cloud Platform Engineering Director

Lincoln Motor Company; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 142,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics on Google Cloud. You will lead an IaC-driven platform, drive DBaaS, and optimize SaaS database costs across PDO teams.

You will build and mentor a global team of engineers, align platform practice with security and AI readiness, and partner with Google to advance the Agentic Data Cloud agenda.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering, cloud architecture, and data platform services.
• Proven platform engineering ownership of large-scale database and analytics environments on GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automations.
• Experience with SaaS databases and cost-optimization at enterprise scale.
• Executive communication and leadership skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year platform engineering roadmap for cloud databases and analytics.
• Lead a global team of platform engineers, architects, and SREs.
• Own DBaaS strategy and architecture patterns for PDO workloads.
• Drive IaC-driven automation and self-service APIs across provisioning and observability.
• Partner with vendors and internal stakeholders to optimize cost and security.

Skills

Cloud architecture

GCP

DevOps/SRE

Leadership

Database technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

IaC tooling

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a visionary Director, Cloud Platform Engineering to own strategy, architecture and engineering of Ford's cloud databases and analytics on Google Cloud. You will lead an IaC-driven platform, drive DBaaS, and optimize SaaS database costs across PDO teams.

You will build and mentor a global team of engineers, align platform practice with security and AI readiness, and partner with Google to advance the Agentic Data Cloud agenda.