Senior Security Engineer

In this position...

The Ford Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) team oversees the Ford Connected Vehicle Cloud, including the Transport Mobility Cloud (TMC) and its integrated application ecosystem. TMC serves as Ford’s global Connected Vehicle Cloud Platform, supporting over 21 million vehicles in production worldwide.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will work closely with Cloud Engineering teams to ensure that CPE services and platforms are designed and maintained with the highest security standards, protecting Ford’s customers and their data.

What you'll do...

Architect and implement robust application security controls throughout the software development process across 200+ external and internal services.

Ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and confidential products and services through adherence to best practices.

Monitor cloud environments for security threats, vulnerabilities and suspicious activities.

Investigate and respond to Security incidents and alerts in real-time.

Maintain vulnerability identification, assessment, and remediation across infrastructure and code.

Work with Engineering development teams to remediate vulnerabilities promptly.

Integrate security guardrails into build and deployment processes to prevent vulnerable code from reaching production.

Translate Engineering and Security needs into clear, well-defined functional and technical requirements backed by data analysis and deep understanding of the platform security landscape.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve the security posture of Connected Vehicle Cloud and design Security into platforms and products.

Document Security Procedures, playbooks and guidelines.

Ensure alignment with internal Ford policies, and industry regulations and standards (adherence to relevant security framework such as SOC2, ISO27001).

Develop and manage key security operational metrics, ensuring their success and implementing action plans, including necessary remediations.

You'll have…

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.

6 years experience in a security engineering role, with experience in implementing effective vulnerability management strategies to mitigate risks.

3 years Applied cloud security knowledge of AWS, GCP

3 years experience in one or multiple programming languages such as Java, Python, GO or C++ 2 years experience in security standards and compliance regulations such as ISO 27001, SOC2, and GDPR

Even better, you may have…

Experience security in IOT and Device management systems

Experience with PKI and Certificate services.

Strong analytical skills to produce and interpret security data and trends

Demonstrated experience securing CI / CD pipelines in Kubernetes environments

Ford will not be offering a relocation package for this position. Candidates for this role are expected to either reside within commuting distance of our Dearborn, MI or Palo Alto, CA offices or be able to relocate independently without financial assistance from the company.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :

• 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.

This position is a leadership level 6.

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Compensation will be determined according to experience and location.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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Requisition ID : 49308