Cloud Platform Engineering and Operations Manager, Azure, Dynamics

🕒 May 12

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

💵 $132.8k - $250.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

🚗 Transport

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Transport • Manufacturing • Sustainability

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead and provide technical guidance to a global team of 6 cloud engineers, cultivating a culture of proactive continuous improvement leveraging automation and AI. • Drive Developer Experience by achieving feature parity with GCP; transition manual Azure processes to automated workflows leveraging project Chassis framework and AI. • Lead day-to-day operations for a global platform team, managing a 'follow-the-sun' support model across North America (NA) and Asia-Pacific (AP) regions. • Oversee incident response and escalation workflows, ensuring the team meets or exceeds MTT(x) goals. • Define and maintain the Azure/Dynamics platform strategy and roadmap within Jira; ensure strict adherence to Jira practices and PI planning. • Conduct financial forecasting and reviews for Azure and Dynamics; manage Microsoft licensing/pricing (PAYG/RI), cost calculators, and cost alerts. • Improve platform security by remediating NIST violations and ensuring standards are enforced by deploying custom Azure policies to block non-compliant infrastructure. • Upskill the team in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps principles; proactively encourage the integration of Copilot and AI/Agentic solutions. • Assist customers with onboarding and answering technical questions related to the Dynamics platform. • Define and document back up strategies for Azure hosted solutions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline. • Strong leadership skills with preferably 3+ years of proven leadership experience • Experience managing teams in a 24x7 global support environment and on-call rotation. • Proven ability to take an ownership role in projects, driving tasks to completion through PI planning and agile methodologies. • 5+ years of experience in Cloud infrastructure & service management and administration (Azure; AWS or GCP experience is a plus). • Deep understanding of NIST Security Standards and remediation strategies. • Firm grasp of Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure AD), including Roles, API Permission grants, Elevated Permissions, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM). • Experience implementing and managing Azure Policy at scale. • Proficiency in Terraform, ARM templates, Go (Golang), PowerShell, and Python. • Understanding of basic AI principles and best practices.

🏖️ 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.