Senior Technical Risk Engineer

Ford

13h • Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Technical Risk Engineer with strong technical acumen to design, prioritize, and enable risk-reducing technical solutions across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes solution engineering over process engineering—using risk frameworks, policies, and controls as inputs to architect practical, automatable, and scalable technical safeguards.

The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer first and a risk professional second: someone who understands how systems fail, how controls can be enforced through code and architecture, and how risk intent is translated into resilient technical designs.

Requirements

• 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 Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed