Cybersecurity Engineer Job at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we’re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves?

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.

This position will be involved in developing/engineering SIEM/SOAR and unified security & risk management solutions across the current and future security portfolio, with a strong initial focus on Google SecOps and Security Command Center.

Job Responsibilities

• SIEM Solution Design and Implementation: Designing and deploying secure, scalable Google SecOps architectures, including log ingestion pipelines and integration with existing IT infrastructure. Configuring and managing log ingestion from various sources, ensuring data normalization and efficient analysis within Google SecOps.
• Design, Build, and Maintain SIEM Data Pipelines: Design and develop robust, scalable, and automated data pipelines to ingest, process, transform, and store security logs and events from diverse sources into the SIEM platform. Develop and implement data parsing rules, enrichment processes, and data normalization techniques to ensure data quality and consistency within the SIEM.
• Optimize SIEM Data Pipelines: Monitor data pipeline performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations to improve efficiency, reduce latency, and ensure timely data availability for security analysis. Tune log sources and correlation rules to reduce false positives, minimize noise, and enhance the accuracy of threat detection.
• SIEM Administration and Support: Maintain the health, performance, and tuning of the SIEM platform. Troubleshoot issues related to log sources, data ingestion, parsing failures, and other SIEM platform issues.
• Security Command Center (SCC) responsibilities: Managing access to Security Command Center features through IAM roles, allowing granular control over who can view, edit, or manage findings and assets. Ensuring that Security Command Center settings are configured and maintained to support the organization's security needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Systems or related field.
• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Google SecOps, IBM QRadar, Microsoft Azure Sentinel, or similar.
• Experience with security logging, data sources, and industry best practices for log ingestion.
• Experience in log parsing, custom rule creation, and developing actionable alerts.
• 2+ years experience developing cloud native applications preferably on Google Cloud Platform.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Go, Java, or Bash for automation, data manipulation, and integration tasks.
• Hands-on experience setting up CI/CD pipelines. OpenShift Tekton, or GitHub Actions, or alike Knowledge of secure coding practices.
• Experience setting up serverless functions using GCP Cloud Run or Cloud functions, and configuring the respective cloud provider for scaling.
• Robust knowledge of system design principles including reliability, availability, and scalability.
• Experience setting up logging and monitoring services (Dynatrace, GCP Ops Suites).
• Strong understanding of network security, log analysis, threat detection, and incident response.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, data integration techniques, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).

Ford Motor Company offers a range of benefits, including immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage, flexible family care days, paid parental leave, and more. For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.