[Remote] Cybersecurity Platform Engineering Manager

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

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