Cyber Security Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Risk Engineer at Ford developing vulnerability risk solutions to enhance security across enterprise technology environments. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable technical safeguards.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $99,600 - $166,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAzureCloudCyber SecurityDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engineer technical vulnerability risk solutions that reduce operational, cyber, and resilience risk through architecture, automation, and control design.
Translate vulnerability 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 vulnerability discovery, exposure analysis, remediation workflow design, secure cloud architectures, isolated recovery environments, identity and access hardening, and infrastructure resilience.
Provide technical guidance on risk tradeoffs, recovery sequencing, and dependency-aware system design.
Work across broad vulnerability management capabilities, including scanners, asset and exposure data sources, prioritization models, remediation tracking platforms, exception workflows, and executive risk reporting.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
7+ years in engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, vulnerability management, or technical risk roles
Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across cross-functional teams
Hands-on experience with vulnerability management practices, including discovery, prioritization, remediation coordination, exception handling, and risk reporting
Demonstrated problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity
Ability to work independently and as part of a team, operating comfortably between engineering teams and risk stakeholders
Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automation environments
Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
Configuration management and automation experience using Ansible
Programming and scripting proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Azure.
Ability to design and implement scalable, automatable security controls and remediation workflows across enterprise technology stacks.
Familiarity with observability, logging, and evidence automation for control validation.

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

vulnerability managementrisk reportinginfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsiblePythoncloud platformsGoogle Cloud PlatformAzureautomation

Soft Skills

problem-solvinganalytical thinkingcommunicationteam collaborationindependenceinfluencetechnical guidancecross-functional teamworkexplanation of technical conceptsdesign influence

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's Degree in CybersecurityBachelor's Degree in Information SystemsBachelor's Degree in Software Engineering