Senior Technical Risk Engineer

<div class="container-3Gm1a"><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We are seeking a <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Risk Engineer</strong> with strong technical acumen to design, prioritize, and enable <strong>risk-reducing technical solutions</strong> across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes <strong>solution engineering over process engineering</strong>—using risk frameworks, policies, and controls as inputs to architect practical, automatable, and scalable technical safeguards.</span><br><br> </p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer first and a risk professional second: someone who understands how systems fail, how controls can be enforced through code and architecture, and how risk intent is translated into resilient technical designs.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Engineer <strong>technical risk solutions</strong> that reduce operational, cyber, and resilience risk through architecture, automation, and control design.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Translate <strong>risk requirements, policies, and standards</strong> into implementable technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Prioritize and influence <strong>solution design decisions</strong> based on risk impact, blast radius, and recovery dependencies.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Partner with platform, cloud, security, and SRE teams to embed risk controls directly into infrastructure and pipelines.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Evaluate control effectiveness using <strong>technical signals and evidence</strong>, not just procedural compliance.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Support initiatives such as secure cloud architecture, isolated recovery environments, identity and access hardening, and infrastructure resilience.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Provide technical guidance on <strong>risk tradeoffs</strong>, recovery sequencing, and dependency-aware system design.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Contribute to lightweight process definition where needed—but always in service of enabling better technical outcomes.</span></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Preferred Technical Skills</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Cloud Platforms:</strong> Google Cloud Platform (GCP)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Automation & API Development:</strong> Proficiency in Python or Java and Ansible for scripting, with hands-on experience in API development (RESTful) </span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Infrastructure as Code:</strong> Terraform (required)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Data & Analytics:</strong> GCP BigQuery, Power BI (or similar) to visualize risk posture & evidence.</span></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Backup, recovery, and resilience</strong> solution architectures</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Isolated Recovery Environment</strong> <strong>(IRE) </strong>design and implementation in GCP</span></p></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Supporting Knowledge (nice to have):</strong></span><ul style="list-style-type:circle;"><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">GRC and/or Security Domain expertise</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Observability, logging, and evidence automation</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">GRC Platforms: Archer, ServiceNow</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">ITIL-based IT Service Management (ITSM)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list 1.0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Familiarity with Agentic AI Frameworks</span></li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom:0in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;"><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;">Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field</li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">7+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles</span></li><li><p style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Backup, recovery, and resilience</strong> solution architecture implementations, especially IRE’s.</span></p></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Proven ability to <strong>design and influence technical solutions</strong> across teams</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automation</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Comfortable operating between engineering teams and risk stakeholders</span></li><li style="margin-bottom:0in;tab-stops:list .5in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity</span></li></ul><p style="margin-left:0px;">You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!</p><p><strong>As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:</strong></p><ul><li>Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage</li><li>Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more</li><li>Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases</li><li>Tuition assistance</li><li>Established and active employee resource groups</li><li>Paid time off for individual and team community service</li><li>A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day</li><li>Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.</li></ul><p><strong>For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: </strong><a href="https://fordcareers.co/GSR">Benefit Summary </a></p><p>This position is a salary grade<strong> 8</strong>. </p><p>This position is a salary grade <strong>8</strong> and ranges from <strong>$96,720-162,120</strong>.</p><p><i><strong>*Visa Sponsorship is provided for this role</strong></i><strong>*</strong></p><p>Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.</p><p>We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, If you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.<br> </p><p>#LI-Remote</p><p>#LI-GH2</p></div>

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