Ford Motor Company

Compensation

Full Description

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ford Motor Company is seeking a Cybersecurity Platform Engineering Manager to lead and scale a team of Risk Engineers focused on engineering risk-reducing solutions. The role involves people leadership, technical direction, and ensuring that risk intent is translated into practical, automated, and measurable solutions. Responsibilities • Manage, coach, and develop a team of Risk Engineers with diverse technical skill sets • Set clear expectations for technical rigor, ownership, and outcomes • Build a high-performing culture that values engineering excellence, accountability, and collaboration • Support career development, performance management, and succession planning • Establish and maintain technical direction for how risk is engineered into platforms, architectures, and pipelines • Ensure risk requirements are consistently translated into implementable solution patterns, not just documentation • Prioritize work based on risk reduction value, system criticality, and recovery dependencies • Review and challenge designs to ensure controls are effective, automatable, and evidence-driven • Partner with cloud, platform, security, and SRE leaders to embed risk controls directly into engineering workflows • Balance near-term risk mitigation with long-term architectural resilience • Represent Risk Engineering in senior forums, articulating tradeoffs and decisions with clarity and credibility • Ensure teams deliver outcomes that measurably reduce risk—not just activity Skills • 10+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles • 5+ years managing engineers or technical practitioners in a large enterprise • Demonstrated success leading teams to deliver large scale technical solutions as code, in order to seize opportunity and/or to address risk • Solid understanding of how risk manifests in technology, especially cloud, distributed systems, identity, and recovery architectures • Proven ability to influence across organizational and functional boundaries • Strong familiarity with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) • Site Reliability Engineering practices • Translating observability signals into actionable insights • Backup, recovery, and resilience implementation architectures • ITIL-based IT Service Management (ITSM) • Everything as Code • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) • Automation and configuration management (Ansible) • Scripting or programming (Python) • CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code • Familiarity with Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes • GRC Platforms: Archer, ServiceNow • Agentic AI Implementations • Comfortable reviewing designs, architectures, and automation produced by the team • Able to ask the right technical questions—even if not writing code daily Benefits • 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. Company Overview • We don't just make history -- we make the future. It was founded in 1903, and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.ford.com.