# Engineering Manager, DevOps & Platform Engineering

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $165,000-$200,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford Pro is a global business within Ford Motor Company focused on delivering productivity solutions to commercial customers. We offer a comprehensive suite of vehicles, charging infrastructure, software, and services tailored to fleet and business needs. Our Ford Pro Intelligence technology team, within the broader Vehicle Cloud and Mobile Division, powers the digital backbone of Ford Pro Telematics and Data Services.

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow our DevOps team. This leader will shape the team's direction, strengthen its operating practices, and help engineering teams build, deploy, and run software reliably.

### Responsibilities

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, setting clear goals and supporting their growth, engagement, and career development.

- Hire and retain talent, build a healthy and inclusive team culture, and foster accountability, collaboration, and ownership.

- Set team direction and priorities in partnership with engineering, product, security, and operations stakeholders.

- Improve the tools and practices that help engineering teams build, test, deploy, and operate services safely and efficiently.

- Guide the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud platforms, and developer self-service capabilities.

- Promote reliability and operational readiness through observability, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.

- Help teams balance delivery speed, system reliability, security, quality, and cost.

- Establish useful engineering standards and paved paths without adding unnecessary process or slowing teams down.

- Lead in Agile environments, supporting effective sprint planning and execution and improving delivery practices and velocity.

- Partner with technical leads on architectural and operational decisions while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.

- Communicate the team's plans, priorities, progress, and risks clearly to senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

- Navigate competing priorities and disagreements constructively, build alignment through trust, and maintain team focus through ambiguity or change.

### Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

- 5+ years of experience directly managing software engineering teams, with a proven track record of hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining talent.

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering and/or DevOps.

- Extensive experience leading teams in Agile environments, including managing sprints and improving delivery practices and velocity.

- Strong understanding of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud infrastructure, observability, and production operations.

- Demonstrated ability to set priorities, manage delivery commitments, and balance speed, reliability, security, and quality.

- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the maturity to navigate cross-functional priorities and build alignment.

- A continuous-improvement mindset and a focus on making engineering systems and team practices more effective.

### Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- 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

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day

## Skills

### Required
- DevOps
- platform engineering
- CI/CD
- infrastructure automation
- cloud infrastructure
- observability
- production operations
- Agile

### Nice to have
- GCP
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- GitOps
- modern CI/CD systems

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