Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Ford is seeking an experienced and passionate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and lead the development, enhancement, and extension of our global monitoring and observability platform. You will play a critical role in driving the adoption and maturation of SRE best practices throughout the enterprise, partnering closely with our application teams to guide them through their SRE Journey. In this role, you will not only contribute hands-on to ensuring the reliability and scalability of our systems but also mentor and lead a team of SREs, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team enables modernization by providing robust SRE standards, IaC, monitoring tools powered by AI and easy-to-use dashboards. The resulting transparency of end-to-end performance provides a better view into how teams can proactively manage reliability and strategically apply automation.

As an SRE your role will combine software engineering and systems engineering disciplines to ensure that software systems are available, scalable, and maintainable. This individual will play a pivotal role in shaping the evolving needs of our customers including development of Service Level Indicators and Objectives (SLI/SLO), best practices with associated templates, as well as automation to remove toil and facilitate adoption.

Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and/or equivalent work experience 5+ years of experience with Golang, Python, Java, NoSQL/SQL Datastore, Spring Boot. 5+ years of experience with any APM and other monitoring tools such as Grafana Cloud, Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Kafka, DataDog, PagerDuty. 3+ years of GCP, AWS, or Azure experience. 3+ years of experience maintaining, developing, and supporting multi-tier production applications Demonstrated experience with leadership and mentorship, including cross-team/org coordination Experience with automated testing, unit/integration/load and/or test-driven development Understanding of gRPC & RESTful APIs, and microservices platform Strong experience with establishing error budgets by identifying the right SLOs (Service level objective), SLIs (Service level indicators), KPIs (Key performance indicators) and effectively drive the use of the budget to ensure maximum domain availability/uptime. Experience in solving complex architecture/design & business problems, work to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc. Strong background in software development and systems administration, as well as excellent problem-solving and communication skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure Experience with data visualization tools such as, Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI and Qlik-Sense Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines Experience with SCA, SAST, DAST, Vulnerability Management, and CSPM tools to assist customers deliver secure services Proficiency in CI/CD and DevOps / GitOps practices Experience with GCP cloud services Demonstrable experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role SRE Certification(s) is a plus Kubernetes experience is a plus You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply! As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including: • 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. For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: This role is remote but if you live within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI or Palo Alto, CA, you will be required to go on site up to 3x a week. *Visa Sponsorship IS provided for this specific role * *Relocation assistance IS not provided for this specific role*