Job Title: Senior Technical Risk Engineer

Company Name: Ford

Job Details: RemoteFull,Time

Job Url: https://hiring.cafe/viewjob/7n3lslphavig74y2

Job Description: Posted 15h agoSenior Technical Risk Engineer@ FordView All JobsWebsiteUnited StatesRemoteFull TimeResponsibilities:Engineering risk, Designing patternsRequirements Summary:Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field; 7+ years in IT operations/engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk; backup/recovery and resilience architecture experience.Technical Tools Mentioned:Google Cloud Platform, Python, Java, Ansible, Terraform, BigQuery, Power BI
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.ResponsibilitiesKey ResponsibilitiesEngineer 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.QualificationsPreferred Technical SkillsCloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Automation & API Development: Proficiency in Python or Java and Ansible for scripting, with hands-on experience in API development (RESTful) Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (required)Data & Analytics: GCP BigQuery, Power BI (or similar) to visualize risk posture & evidence.Backup, recovery, and resilience solution architecturesIsolated Recovery Environment (IRE) design and implementation in GCPSupporting Knowledge (nice to have):GRC and/or Security Domain expertiseCI/CD pipelines and policy-as-codeCloud IAM, networking, and control planesObservability, logging, and evidence automationGRC Platforms: Archer, ServiceNowITIL-based IT Service Management (ITSM)Familiarity with Agentic AI Frameworks Required QualificationsRequires a bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology or a technology related field7+ years in IT operations & engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or technical risk rolesBackup, recovery, and resilience solution architecture implementations, especially IRE’s.Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across teamsStrong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and automationComfortable operating between engineering teams and risk stakeholdersAbility to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity