Ford Motor Company

Security Engineer

Ford Motor Company  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  9 days ago
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Job Description

We are seeking a Risk Engineer with strong technical acumen to design, prioritize, and enable risk-reducing technical solutions across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes solution engineering over process engineering—using risk frameworks, policies, and controls as inputs to architect practical, automatable, and scalable technical safeguards.

The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer first and a risk professional second: someone who understands how systems actually fail, how controls can be enforced through code and architecture, and how risk intent is translated into resilient technical designs.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 architectures, 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.

Preferred Technical Skills

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (required)
  • Configuration Management / Automation: Ansible
  • Programming / Scripting: Python
  • Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Supporting Knowledge (nice to have):
    • CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code
    • Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes
    • Backup, recovery, and resilience architectures
    • Observability, logging, and evidence automation
    • GRC Platforms: Archer, ServiceNow
    • ITIL-based IT Service Management (ITSM)
    • Familiarity with Agentic AI Frameworks

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years in engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles
  • 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
Ford Motor Company

About Ford Motor Company

We don't just make history -- we make the future. Ford put the world on wheels over a century ago, and our teams are re-inventing icons and creating groundbreaking connected and electric vehicles for the next century. We believe in serving our customers, our communities, and the world. If you do, too, come move the world and make the future with us.

Ford is a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet. We are here to provide the means for every person to move and pursue their dreams, serving as a bridge between personal freedom and the future of mobility. In that pursuit, our 186,000 employees around the world help to set the pace of innovation every day.

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Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Dearborn, Michigan
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
ford.com
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