Senior Technical Risk Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Technical Risk Engineer designing and enabling risk-reducing technical solutions across cloud environments. Collaborating with teams to enhance risk frameworks and technical safeguards.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $96,720 - $162,120 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engineer technical risk solutions that reduce operational, cyber, and resilience risk through architecture, automation, and control design.
Translate risk requirements, policies, and standards into implementable technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures.
Prioritize and influence solution design decisions based on risk impact, blast radius, and recovery dependencies.
Partner with platform, cloud, security, and SRE teams to embed risk controls directly into infrastructure and pipelines.
Evaluate control effectiveness using technical signals and evidence, not just procedural compliance.
Support initiatives such as secure cloud architecture, isolated recovery environments, identity and access hardening, and infrastructure resilience.
Provide technical guidance on risk tradeoffs, recovery sequencing, and dependency-aware system design.
Contribute to lightweight process definition where needed—but always in service of enabling better technical outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field
7+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles
Backup, recovery, and resilience solution architecture implementations, especially IRE’s.
Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across teams
Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automation
Comfortable operating between engineering teams and risk stakeholders
Ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

technical risk solutionsarchitectureautomationcontrol designcloud architecturebackup solutionsrecovery solutionsresilience solutionsdistributed systemstechnical signals

Soft Skills

influencecommunicationtechnical guidancecollaborationexplain complex conceptsprioritizationdecision makingprocess definitionpartneringsupport initiatives