Ford is looking for a Senior Technical Risk Engineer to focus on designing, prioritizing, and enabling risk-reducing technical solutions across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes solution engineering over process engineering, translating risk frameworks into practical, automatable technical safeguards.
What You'll Do
- Engineer technical risk solutions that reduce operational, cyber, and resilience risk through architecture, automation, and control design.
- Translate risk requirements, policies, and standards into implementable technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures.
- Prioritize and influence solution design decisions based on risk impact, blast radius, and recovery dependencies.
- Partner with platform, cloud, security, and SRE teams to embed risk controls directly into infrastructure and pipelines.
- Evaluate control effectiveness using technical signals and evidence, not just procedural compliance.
- Support initiatives such as secure cloud architecture, isolated recovery environments, identity and access hardening, and infrastructure resilience.
- Provide technical guidance on risk tradeoffs, recovery sequencing, and dependency-aware system design.
- Contribute to lightweight process definition where needed—but always in service of enabling better technical outcomes.
What We're Looking For
- Requires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field.
- 7+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk roles.
- Backup, recovery, and resilience solution architecture implementations, especially IRE’s.
- Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across teams.
- Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automation.
- Comfortable operating between engineering teams and risk stakeholders.
- Ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity.
Nice to Have
- GRC and/or Security Domain expertise.
- CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code.
- Cloud IAM, networking, and control planes.
- Observability, logging, and evidence automation.
- GRC Platforms: Archer, ServiceNow.
- ITIL-based IT Service Management (ITSM).
- Familiarity with Agentic AI Frameworks.
Technical Stack
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Python or Java
- Ansible
- Terraform
- GCP BigQuery
- Power BI (or similar)
Ford is an equal opportunity employer.
