[Hiring] Director of Cloud SRE @Ford Motor Company

Role Description

We are looking for a Director of Cloud SRE to lead a team of engineering leaders and engineers responsible for federating core SRE principles across a global, hybrid technology organization. This role drives the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for our internal observability and reliability tooling, which includes:

• Telemetry standards
• Developer pipeline integration
• Application team SRE maturity

This role works in close partnership with peer SRE leaders to extend that strategy consistently across cloud-native and on-premise environments alike.

This is a builder's role as much as a leader's role. You will guide a team that develops internally-owned tooling built intentionally to remain vendor-agnostic, ensuring the organization is never architecturally locked to a single observability provider and drives Agentic AI deeper into our SRE ecosystem.

While our primary application runtime is GCP, this leader must be equally comfortable partnering across the SRE organization to extend reliability and observability standards into:

• Data center
• Manufacturing
• Distribution
• Global campus environments

This role meets engineering and operations teams where they are, not just where the platform lives.

The ideal candidate blends technical depth with organizational fluency, being someone who can:

• Participate in architecture reviews and roadmap planning sessions with equal credibility
• Personally build and operate production systems
• Partner effectively across a broader SRE leadership team to advance a long-term, unified observability strategy

Qualifications

• Technical depth in SRE principles
• Experience in leading engineering teams
• Strong organizational fluency
• Experience with cloud-native and on-premise environments

Requirements

• Proven experience in production system architecture
• Ability to develop vendor-agnostic tooling
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health and wellness programs
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for professional development