Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Connected Vehicle Division

Join EVDD, Ford's Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design team, as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Connected Vehicle Division. In this role, you will architect and scale the cloud infrastructure foundation powering Ford's next-generation Software Diagnostics & Observability platform.

As a member of this agile team, you will work collaboratively, stay focused on only what matters, and deliver excellence day in and day out. You'll be part of a fast-paced, highly collaborative organization that translates advanced technical strategy into deployable capabilities.

You will design resilient, production-grade infrastructure automation frameworks and directly influence how next-generation connected vehicles detect, diagnose, and recover from software and electronics failures in production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Influence Cloud Infrastructure Standards and Platform Engineering Best Practices:
• Provision and configure the TOP platform's GCP project space within Ford's enterprise GCP organization, including project structure, networking, IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies, service accounts, and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) configuration
• Design and maintain development, staging, and production environment separation within Ford's GCP, ensuring clean promotion gates between environments
• Own infrastructure as code for the TOP platform using Terraform, maintaining version-controlled infrastructure definitions in Ford's GitHub organization
• Manage the container runtime environment for externally delivered Docker images, including GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) or Cloud Run configuration, container security scanning, and image promotion workflows
• Enforce the model weight storage architecture defined in Ford's vendor SOW (Statement of Work): verify that fine-tuned model artifacts are stored in Ford's Vertex AI Model Registry or Google Cloud Storage (GCS) buckets, not embedded in container images
• Partner with Security, Networking, AI/ML, and Software Engineering Stakeholders to Balance Platform Scalability, Governance, and Developer Enablement:
• Review Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) delivered with each container image version, flagging unapproved components to Ford's security team
• Configure and maintain GCP networking for the TOP platform including Private Service Connect, VPC peering, and any hybrid connectivity requirements
• Implement and maintain GCP logging, monitoring, and alerting pipelines using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and integration with Dynatrace
• Drive Technical Decision-Making and Operational Maturity Initiatives For Cloud Infrastructure Supporting Next-Generation Connected Vehicle Systems:
• Manage Artifact Registry for container image versioning and access control
• Support the on-premises to cloud migration engineer in defining cloud landing zones and connectivity patterns for legacy system integrations
• Participate in Ford's central GCP governance processes, representing the TOP team's platform requirements and ensuring compliance with Ford's enterprise cloud standards

Qualifications:

• Academic Foundation: Minimum BS or equivalent degree completed in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
• Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Engineering: 5+ or more years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting production workloads within GCP (or comparable) cloud enterprise environments, including infrastructure automation, deployment strategy, and operational excellence initiatives
• Architect Infrastructure in Complex Systems Environment: 5+ years demonstrating proficiency in GCP core services including GKE, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, GCS, Artifact Registry, Pub/Sub, Cloud Build, IAM, VPC, and Private Service Connect
• Designing and Automating Cloud Infrastructure Using Terraform: 5+ years of experience implementing infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform, including development of reusable modules and scalable deployment standards across multi-environment enterprise platforms
• Expertise Building Secure, Maintainable Cloud Platforms: 5+ years of work experience operating secure, highly available cloud platforms within shared enterprise environments, including governance, networking, IAM, and centralized operational controls
• Globally Distributed Production Environments: 5+ or more years of experience operating within regulated, shared infrastructure regulated environments, including VPC architectures, centralized billing, governance controls, and a shared responsibility model