Ford Motor Company · 1 day ago
Technical Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expFord Motor Company is a global automotive leader, and they are seeking a Technical Architect to design and maintain cloud infrastructure platforms. The role involves implementing best practices for security and performance, leading cross-functional teams, and enhancing developer experience through platform engineering capabilities.
AutomotiveAutonomous VehiclesManufacturingTransportation
Responsibilities
Responsible for overall Infrastructure Architecture and evolution of next gen platforms. Ideal candidates will research the existing products and recommend solutions to run workloads in futuristic Infrastructure Architecture landscape
Conduct Infrastructure as Code reviews, automate and deploy Cloud Infrastructure
Experience with implementing AIOps in the Platform Engineering space and increase Developer Experience
Identify code vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks at the Infrastructure Layer, and recommend solutions to improve the overall quality and performance of the sub systems
Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and operational procedures for High Availability, Disaster Recovery scenarios
Analyze kernel logs, network stats, APM metrics, application logs to troubleshoot CPU/Memory/Resource hot spots, API latency and application/platform health
Analyze and identify root-cause and fix complex performance problems involving multiple teams, networks, and software in GCP that relate to scaling and performance
Build Automation for repeatable DevSecOps tasks and help with improving Software Engineers’ productivity
Mentoring Team members to scale and perform at their next level
Thought Leadership around Shift Left (Quality, Security, OSS use) & Shift Right (Platform Engineering) and increasing adoption in the eCommerce Platform
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science or equivalent
A minimum of 10+ years experience in Cloud Technologies and Platform Engineering
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work effectively in a remote/virtual work setting with other global team members
Proven facilitation skills - able to effectively drive discussion among diverse perspectives and reach a decision or recommendation
Proven ability to work closely with executive leadership teams
Effectively work with cross-functional teams across the organization – inside and outside of the technology and software organization
Ability to lead through change
Experience with the following: Microservices architectures, Micro Front-end Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain-Driven Design, Public Cloud (Google Cloud), Serverless, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Docker, DevSecOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and/or performance testing
Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent
Experience in Cloud Native systems, Transactional Systems, Multi-Tenancy, five-nines availability and Containerization technologies
Experience in collaborating and partnering with other technical domain experts such as cloud, security, SRE and Release Mgmt. processes
Benefits
Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care 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.
Company
Ford Motor Company
We don't just make history -- we make the future.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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$16.23BKey Investors
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2025-07-29Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2023-08-17Post Ipo Debt· $4B
2023-06-22Debt Financing· $9.2B
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