Platform Engineering Architect
Core
Design and evolve Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and Agentic Developer Platforms (ADPs) to enable self-service CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and platform orchestration for Ford's eCommerce foundation.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Engineering Architect
Builds
Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), Agentic Developer Platforms (ADPs), self-service CI/CD automation, and cloud infrastructure
Domain
Automotive / Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineering
Required skills
Cloud architecture, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AI agent implementation, Observability, Technical mentorship
Preferred skills
Experience with Agentic AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AIOps, Shift Left/Right practices
Technologies
Terraform, Packer, Ansible, NX Cloud, Helm, Argo CD, SonarQube, Cycode, 42Crunch, Astra, FOSSA, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, GCP (Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, Anthos, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Bigtable, AlloyDB)
Responsibilities
Own and manage architecture of IDPs and ADPs; Define and evolve infrastructure architecture for next-generation platforms; Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure; Implement and monitor AI agents for platform engineering automation; Design and apply auto-scaling, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns; Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentor engineers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC