Platform Engineer Infrastructure

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The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships we provide financing personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

In this position...

Ford Credit Platform Engineering builds and operates the shared infrastructure and paved paths that help product teams deliver securely reliably and quickly. As a Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer on our Platform Engineering team you will design build and operate the cloud platforms and reliability practices that hundreds of engineers depend on every day.

This role leans toward cloud infrastructure DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering with strong software development skills. You will write code to automate infrastructure define reliability targets and create self-service workflows that eliminate toil. You will operate what you build participate in on-call rotations and drive systemic improvements from every incident.

About the Team

Our Platform Engineering team sits at the intersection of product and infrastructure. We treat our platform capabilities as products with users documentation support and a roadmap driven by real feedback. We partner closely with product engineering teams security and SRE to standardize patterns around identity networking CI/CD secrets management and deployment.

We believe the best platform work is invisible. Developers should not have to think about cluster wiring pipeline configuration or operational boilerplate. They should focus on their features and the platform should just work.

How We Work

• Automate first: Eliminate repeatable manual work. Measure and reduce toil.
• Reliability is a feature: Design for failure with timeouts retries with jitter idempotency and graceful degradation.
• Small safe changes: Incremental delivery clear rollback strategies and continuous improvement.
• Engineering excellence: Design reviews blameless postmortems and strong documentation and runbooks.

What Success Looks Like

• Platform capabilities are easy to adopt well-documented and measurably reduce lead time for change.
• Reliability improves over time measured by SLO attainment reduced incident frequency and severity and faster MTTR.
• Security posture improves through secure-by-default patterns and automated controls.

What youll do...

• 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).

Youll have...

• Bachelors of Science Degree
• 5 years 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.

Even better you may have...

• 7 years experience in software development
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and implementing SLO-based alerting and dashboards.
• Observability platform experience (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana OpenTelemetry centralized logging).
• Policy-as-code and supply chain security (e.g. OPA/Rego SLSA concepts SBOMs artifact signing).
• Experience building golden paths (container images templates reference architectures paved pipelines) adopted by multiple teams.
• Cost optimization experience (FinOps practices capacity forecasting right-sizing multi-tenant platform controls).

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve 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 builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

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 Years Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $68300-$114800.

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $85400-$143200.

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99600-$166600.

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115000-$192900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.

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. 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 the United States if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability please call 1-.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.

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