[Hiring] Director of Cloud SRE @Ford

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.

• Spanning telemetry standards, developer pipeline integration, and application team SRE maturity.
• Works in close partnership with peer SRE leaders to extend that strategy consistently across cloud-native and on-premise environments.
• This is a builder's role as much as a leader's role.
• Guide a team that develops internally-owned tooling built intentionally to remain vendor-agnostic.
• Drive Agentic AI deeper into our SRE ecosystem.
• Partner across the SRE organization to extend reliability and observability standards into various environments.
• Meet engineering and operations teams where they are, not just where the platform lives.
• Blend technical depth with organizational fluency.
• Participate in architecture reviews and roadmap planning sessions.
• Partner effectively across a broader SRE leadership team to advance a long-term, unified observability strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years in a people leadership role managing engineering leaders and/or engineers.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating observability platforms at scale.
• Hands-on depth in OpenTelemetry and at least one enterprise observability platform (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, or similar).
• Proven track record designing and delivering internally-built developer tooling.
• Strong working knowledge of public cloud architecture (GCP strongly preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Deep understanding of core SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, toil reduction, capacity planning, and reliability-by-design.
• Experience operating in environments with heterogeneous infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build a long-term technical strategy and translate it into an executable roadmap.
• Strong executive communication skills.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and modern software delivery practices.

Requirements

• Experience building or scaling an SRE function within a large, matrixed enterprise.
• Familiarity with emerging AI/agentic observability standards.
• Experience establishing SRE maturity models or capability frameworks.
• This role requires up to 10% travel.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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.