Cloud Platform Engineering and Operations Manager, Azure, Dynamics
Location
Michigan
Posted
20 days ago
Salary
$132.8K - $250.8K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Cloud Platform Engineering and Operations Manager, Azure, Dynamics
Ford Motor Company
• 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.
Job 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.
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