Cyber Security Platform Engineer – Cyber Defense

Ford Motor Company

Security Engineer within Ford's Cyber Defense, architecting scalable SIEM solutions and ensuring cybersecurity effectiveness across the organization.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $97,140 - $190,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaOpenShiftPythonSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect and engineer scalable, cloud-native SIEM solutions, utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code principles to manage log ingestion pipelines and storage.
Develop and maintain robust data pipelines to ingest, transform, and normalize security logs from diverse endpoints (APIs, cloud platforms, firewalls) into the SIEM, ensuring high data fidelity and low latency.
Write and optimize custom parsers using Regex and scripting languages to map raw log data to standardized security models, ensuring consistent data structures for analysis.
Program custom integrations connecting third-party tools and streaming data sources to the SIEM via REST APIs and webhooks.
Collaborate with DevOps and Application teams to define logging standards and embed security telemetry requirements early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Manage the full lifecycle of the SIEM platform, including health monitoring, troubleshooting ingestion failures, and debugging parsing errors to ensure 24/7 availability.
Proactively analyze ingestion volume against capacity limits to identify optimization opportunities, implementing granular log tuning and exclusion rules that minimize licensing costs and maximize the signal-to-noise ratio
Engineer automated provisioning workflows using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to programmatically manage both the underlying infrastructure and complex IAM policies supporting the security platforms.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Systems or related field.
6+ years of overall software engineering experience
2+ technical experience designing and maintaining scalable security data architectures.
Skilled in configuring cloud-native security & SIEM/SOAR platforms.
Experience with security logging, data sources, log parsing & tuning and industry best practices for log ingestion
Experience administering cloud-native security platforms, with a specific focus on maintaining platform health, troubleshooting configuration issues, and managing complex IAM roles to ensure granular access control.
2+ years hands-on development experience on cloud native platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform.
**Even better, you may have...**
Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation, data manipulation, and integration tasks.
Hands-on experience setting up CI/CD pipelines. OpenShift Tekton, or GitHub Actions or similar.
Knowledge of secure coding practices
Experience setting up serverless functions using GCP Cloud Run or Cloud functions, and configuring the respective service for scaling
Robust knowledge of system design principles including reliability, availability, and scalability
Experience setting up logging and monitoring services (Dynatrace, GCP Ops Suites)
Strong understanding of network security, log analysis, threat detection, and incident response.
Knowledge of RESTful APIs, data integration techniques, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

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

cloud-native SIEM solutionsInfrastructure-as-Codedata pipelineslog ingestioncustom parsersRegexscripting languagesREST APIscloud-native security platformsCI/CD pipelines

Soft Skills

collaborationtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationanalytical thinkingattention to detailproactive analysisorganizational skillsadaptabilityteamwork

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Cyber SecurityBachelor’s degree in Information Systems