Security Platform Engineer

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 tomorrow’s transportation.

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you’re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people’s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

What you'll be able to do:

Security Platform Engineer - positions offered by Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan). Note, this is a hybrid position whereby the employee will work both from home and from the anticipated worksite. Hence, the employee must live within a reasonable commuting distance from the anticipated worksite. In close collaboration with other security platforms leads, contribute to the development and implementation of Identity and Access Management strategies and roadmap. Collaborate closely with IAM portfolio product owners, SMEs, and security product teams to define modernization path, architecture and design of the IAM platform, utilizing EntraID identity infrastructure and entitlement management capabilities effectively. Engage in delivery of tactical and strategic IAM solutions, including analysis, design, and implementation with focus of improving security posture. Oversee the development of high-quality, maintainable code in accordance with best practices. Ensure the IAM platform is designed with security in mind. Implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms and work closely with the security & access control stakeholders to mitigate potential risk. Integrate Enterprise IAM platform with various systems and services, both within the organization and with external partners, to provide seamless and secure access control. Partner with application teams levering Enterprise Identity and Access Management platform to ensure services are consumable by app and cloud migration teams to allow for modernization of existing integration and access controls within traditional applications. Design the IAM platform to be scalable to meet the organization’s growing needs. Implement performance optimizations to ensure efficient operation. Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, API documentation, and coding standards. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including security, IT, and application development teams, to ensure the IAM platform aligns with the organization’s overall goals. Troubleshooting and Support: Provide technical support and troubleshooting assistance to resolve issues related to the IAM platform. Develop and maintain monitoring and alerting systems. Keep up-to-date with the latest IAM and Microsoft entitlement management technologies, trends, and best practices, and apply them to improve the platform. Integrate AI-powered services into the IAM platform to enhance security capabilities and automate user review workflows. 

You'll have...

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, Security Platform Engineering or a related field and 4 years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.   4 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:  1. Designing secure and scalable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions including architecting custom systems, designing secure APIs, and defining data models to protect user identities and access policies. 2. Developing and automating security tools and platforms by coding custom Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, building secure APIs, and implementing core logic for password management applications. 3. Securing infrastructure by configuring operating system–level security controls on platforms including Linux or Windows, and supporting the secure deployment of IAM platforms. 4. Managing and securing CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated security testing into the development lifecycle to ensure secure code delivery from development through deployment including DevSecOps.  2 years of experience with each of the following skills is required:  1. Using version control systems to manage codebase changes for security applications and enforcing best practices including code reviews and branch protection to maintain code integrity. 2. Building, deploying, and managing secure IAM solutions on cloud platforms, including configuring cloud identity services including Azure AD and managing cloud infrastructure security. 3. Designing secure database schemas and managing encrypted user identity and access data across various databases to ensure secure storage and access control.

We are offering a salary of $120,349.00 - $190,500.00/yr. 

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!

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 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 Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

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