Ford Motor Company

Software Engineering Manager

Ford Motor Company • $132K — $250K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Dearborn, MI
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 8+ years of Software Engineering or IT experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Expertise in managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production
  • Knowledge of public cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and their services
  • Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd
  • Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana) for observability
  • Experience leading large-scale infrastructure automation initiatives
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices
  • Understanding of cloud-native security best practices
  • Ability to engage and influence senior management.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire the Kubernetes Platform Services team
  • Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters
  • Collaborate with developers and engineers for Kubernetes support
  • Stay updated on Kubernetes innovations and best practices
  • Improve developer experience through environment provisioning simplification.

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care and parental leave programs
  • Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
  • Tuition assistance
  • Active employee resource groups
  • Paid time off for community service
  • Generous paid holiday schedule
  • Option to purchase additional vacation time.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking an expert technical leader to drive the Ford Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform, hosting OpenShift Virtualization (OSV), responsible for building, operating, and evolving secure, scalable, and automated Kubernetes infrastructure primarily on-premise. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of a unified, self-service Kubernetes platform that empowers Ford development teams to efficiently deploy and manage production-grade container clusters hosting a combination of containers and virtualized machines. You will shape the future of Ford's cloud-native infrastructure strategy, fostering innovation, optimizing operational excellence, and enabling seamless developer experience through industry-leading container orchestration and automation practices. You will work hand-in-hand with the GCP focused Container as a Service group

Responsibilities

  • Leadership and Team Management: Lead and inspire the Kubernetes Platform Services team focused on delivering secure, scalable, and automated container orchestration at Ford. Develop and execute strategic initiatives to optimize Kubernetes cluster deployment and operational efficiency. Drive the team to consistently achieve performance goals and high-quality service delivery.
  • Technical Architecture and Oversight: Own the end-to-end design, deployment, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters, ensuring seamless integration across Ford's on-premise environments. Guarantee the clusters meet stringent requirements for availability, scalability, security, and resource efficiency.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration and Enablement: Partner deeply with application developers, platform engineers, and infrastructure teams to understand needs and provide expert Kubernetes guidance and troubleshooting support. Foster a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning within the team and across Ford's technical organization.
  • Innovation, Standardization, and Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of cutting-edge Kubernetes developments and cloud-native best practices. Lead the adoption of innovations that improve deployment automation, cluster lifecycle management, security compliance, and observability. Establish and enforce standardized processes to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure Kubernetes operations organization-wide.
  • Developer Experience: Focus on developer/consumption experience as a first class citizen through simplification of environment provisioning and application deployment.


Qualifications

  • 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / IT Experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline.
  • Extensive Kubernetes Expertise: Proven experience managing, deploying, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in production environments, ideally across hybrid cloud and on-premises data centers.
  • Cloud Platform Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of one or more public cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure) including container native services, networking, IAM, and storage integrations.
  • Experience with Service Mesh Technologies: Hands-on experience with Istio, Linkerd, or other service mesh platforms to enhance security, observability, and traffic management.
  • Strong Background in Monitoring & Observability Tools: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Dynatrace/Datadog, ELK stack, or Google Stackdriver for end-to-end observability and proactive incident detection.
  • Experience Leading Large-Scale Automation Initiatives: Past success automating infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and operational tasks using advanced CI/CD tooling integrated with Kubernetes platforms.
  • Infrastructure Automation and CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Kustomize), Kubernetes operators, and continuous integration/deployment pipelines for containerized applications.
  • Security and Compliance: Solid understanding of cloud-native security best practices, container security, and compliance frameworks relevant to enterprise IT environments
  • Strong Stakeholder Engagement: Demonstrated ability influencing at senior management levels and driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform standards and best practices.


You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
  • Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
  • Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade LL6.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $132,800-$250,800.

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role*

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Learn more about Ford Motor Company
Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
NASDAQ
F
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