Cloud Infrastructure Manager, Ford Energy

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.