Cybersecurity Platform Engineering Manager

We are seeking a Risk Engineering Manager of Others to lead and scale a team of technically strong Risk Engineers focused on engineering risk-reducing solutions not just defining processes or controls. This role is accountable for people leadership technical direction and delivery outcomes ensuring that risk intent is consistently translated into practical automated and measurable technical solutions.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader of peoplesomeone who can coach engineers set architectural direction prioritize work based on risk impact and partner effectively with senior engineering and security leaders. Process exists to support delivery but solutions come first.

Key Responsibilities

People & Team Leadership

• 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.

Technical & Strategic Leadership

• 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.

Delivery & Cross-Functional Partnership

• 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 risknot just activity.

Preferred Technical Background

While this role is people-focused technical credibility is required.

• 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 questionseven if not writing code daily.

Required Qualifications

• 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

What Success Looks Like

• Teams deliver risk reduction through architecture automation and enforceable controls
• Engineers trust Risk Engineering as a technical partner not a compliance gate
• Risk decisions are informed by real system behavior and evidence
• Process exists only where it enables faster safer and more reliable technical outcomes

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 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 Years Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits click here:Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade LL6.

This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $60.

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role*

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