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# Manager, Infrastructure & Platform Engineering, Ford Energy

- **Company:** Ford Motor Company
- **Location:** Glendale, KY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $115,500.0 - $218,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Linux, Monitoring of Systems, Hypervisor, Storage Area Network (SAN), Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, OpenShift, Ansible, Prometheus, Virtualization Technology, Datadog, Google Cloud, Grafana, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Low Latency, Deployment Automation, Enterprise Integration, Data Management, Splunk, Dynatrace
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_fomoco2-70077

## About the Role

solutions. **Required Qualifications** + **Platform & OS Expertise:** 8+ years of deep Linux system administration and engineering experience, with strong proficiency in **Red Hat OpenShift** , **Kubernetes** , **Ansible** , and **Python** . + **Infrastructure Experience:** 8+ years in core IT infrastructure, including direct leadership or technical lead responsibilities in high-availability environments. + **Hardware & Virtualization:** Proven experience sizing, deploying, and maintaining enterprise server hardware, hypervisors, and storage area networks (SAN/NAS). + **Modern Observability Expertise:** Hands-year experience architecting and scaling modern observability pipelines.
Proficiency with current industry-standard tools for distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation (e.g., **OpenTelemetry, Grafana ecosystem, Datadog, Splunk, or Prometheus** ). + **Automation-First Mindset:** Demonstrated ability to build fully automated deployment pipelines using Ansible playbooks and custom scripting. **Preferred Qualifications** + **Manufacturing & OT Context:** Background supporting 24/7 continuous manufacturing or IToT environments where system uptime directly dictates production throughput. + **Hybrid Cloud Awareness:** Basic exposure to public cloud integrations (e.g., GCP, AWS, MS-Azure) to manage enterprise hybrid interconnects without heavy cloud reliance. + **Full-Stack Troubleshooting:** Pragmatic, hands-on approach to diagnosing hardware fault codes, kernel panics, and container orchestration failures.

## Description

Reliability, Observability & Security** + **Systems Monitoring & Observability:** Deploy end-to-end monitoring and alerting suites to maintain 24/7 visibility into Linux systems, host health, and container metrics. + **Business Continuity & Storage:** Architect scalable, low-latency enterprise storage arrays for high-volume manufacturing datasets, backed by robust local backup and disaster recovery frameworks. + **System Hardening:** Enforce strict Linux system security, access controls, and network integration policies in close coordination with cross-functional IT and OT security teams. **Project Execution & Vendor Management** + **Plant Construction & Go-Live:** Serve as the technical lead for infrastructure deployment during plant commissioning, ensuring host environments are fully operational for initial production lines. + **Hardware Sourcing:** Collaborate with hardware vendors to specify, evaluate, and procure server chassis, storage arrays, and high-availability rack