# Cloud Infrastructure Manager, Ford Energy

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,800-$250,800
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

The Cloud Infrastructure Manager – Ford Energy will lead the execution, engineering, and day-to-day operational excellence of Ford Energy's multi-cloud environment and enterprise hosting platforms.

The successful candidate will have direct ownership of the cloud strategy execution, focusing on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and mission-critical SAP S/4HANA cloud infrastructure.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the engineering, delivery, lifecycle management, and operational support across Azure and GCP environments.

- Oversee the technical foundation, stability, disaster recovery, and high-performance hosting requirements for enterprise SAP S/4HANA workloads.

- Drive initiatives focused on cloud optimization, workload migrations, automation, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and continuous improvement of cloud services.

- Implement robust FinOps practices to monitor cloud consumption, optimize spending, and enforce resource governance.

- Own availability, capacity planning, backup/recovery strategies, business continuity, and major incident resolution for all cloud-hosted energy platforms.

- Guide managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud platform account teams to ensure service level agreements (SLAs), operational hygiene, and accountability.

- Partner with Information Security and corporate governance teams to maintain strict security baselines, access controls, and audit readiness.

**Requirements:**

- 8+ years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, and operations.

- At least 3+ years in a dedicated cloud leadership or management capacity within enterprise environments.

- Deep hands-on experience and architecture knowledge in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) enterprise environments.

- Proven experience managing infrastructure, database sizing, high availability, and disaster recovery specifically for SAP S/4HANA or complex enterprise ERP systems hosted in the cloud.

- Strong background in compute, virtualization, Linux/Windows operating systems, enterprise storage, networking, backup/recovery, and infrastructure automation.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive compensation package including performance-based bonuses.

- Ford vehicle discounts.

- 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 Year's Day.

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

## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- SAP S/4HANA
- cloud infrastructure
- IT operations
- cloud security

### Nice to have
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog

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