Cyber Automation Analyst

At Ford Motor Company we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your dreams. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrows transportation.

This role will be focused on operating and improving Fords Cyber Defense Center (CDC) efforts within the Office of the CETO organization. The CDC mission is to provide proactive and reactive security services to protect Ford Motor Company Global digital information assets from compromise. Ford Motor Company must be able to respond to information security-related incidents in a manner that protects corporate information and ensures the protection of additional information which might be affected by the incident. The Threat Integration Analyst is focused on integrating threat and intelligence information across Fords security landscape including SIEM SOAR EDR Intelligence and other tools in order to protect any Ford Motor Company asset or asset of any subsidiary or joint venture worldwide.

Successful candidates must have a significant interest in the Cyber Defense background. The candidate should display strong technical depth that spans cloud network and hosts. Experience in understanding modern computing vulnerabilities attack vectors and exploits is recommended. Leadership behaviors must include solid oral and written communications skills focus on teamwork and a high level of personal this role candidate will understand existing and emerging threat actors and be able to identify rapidly changing tools tactics and procedures of attacks.

Candidates must be willing to work a Hybrid work pattern with a currently limited in-office schedule in the southeast Michigan metro area and in some cases a full-time remote option.

What youll be able to do:

• Create enhance and tune curated and custom SIEM/EDR threat detections
• Develop and implement in Python SOAR orchestration to integrate logs events data feeds execute Incident Response actions etc.
• Partner with IT Operations teams for current and future log source ingestion and parsing into SIEM and SOAR environments
• Technical project management for software upgrades and maintenance using the AGILE framework

• Engineer and deploy sophisticated security detection solutions including the creation of agentic AI to assist in security incident triage and remediation leveraging expertise in Generative AI (GenAI) Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) while ensuring adherence to and implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) for secure and reliable model operations.

Youll have...

• Bachelors degree in a Computer Science Information Technology or related field OR a combination of education and experience
• 2 years of experience with SIEM tools with preference for Google SecOps
• 2 years of Cloud experience in GCP (preferred) / Azure development
• Highly capable Python programming skills focused on Rest APIs for organizing and moving data across myriad platforms and tooling
• Strong deductive reasoning critical thinking problem solving and prioritization skills.
• Experience in a fast paced high stress support environment able to work with a sense of urgency and pay attention to detail
• Solid and demonstrable comprehension of Information Security including malware emerging threats attacks and vulnerability management.

Even better you may have...

• 2 years prior SOC operational experience
• Sound understanding of Cloud TCP/IP and networking concepts.
• In depth knowledge of servers clients various computer peripherals network and/or Storage technologies
• Thorough knowledge of multiple operating systems specifically Windows and (Mac or Linux)
• Awareness of computer forensics as a discipline a plus
• Familiar with Ford Computing Infrastructure and application development life cycle (SDM)
• Demonstrate high level of independent initiative drive for results quality methods and integrity

What youll receive in return:

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

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 builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage

Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more

Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments 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 Years Day

Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits click here: position is a range of salary grades 6-7.

*Note: This is a hybrid role you are expected to relocate if you are not within commutable distance and responsible to be on site 4 days a week

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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