Cybersecurity PKI Software Engineer

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.

In this position...

The In-Vehicle Security Services (IVSS) team designs, develops, and maintains the underlying security infrastructure, PKI, applications, and tools supporting Connected Vehicle & Mobility features for Ford vehicle products.

What you'll do...

The IVSS team is directly engaged with the entire end-to-end solution for Connected Vehicle & Mobility features by providing key management/PKI and relative security services.

As the key management team for Connected Vehicle and Mobility Security, IVSS provides various security services built on the foundation and usage of cryptographic keys – such as encryption/decryption and signing services. Our infrastructure includes cloud web/API services and hardware security modules (HSM), as well as on-premises infrastructure with web/API services backed by our datacenter servers, HSMs, and in-vehicle PKI.

This position will involve development, enhancements and maintenance of our web/API applications supporting Connected Vehicle features, vehicle messaging, software updates, key management and provisioning. This involves development and deployment of solutions/services in on-premises servers and in the cloud, while managing their entire lifecycle.

You'll have...

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering or similar 
• 4 years experience in software architecture, development, methodologies and design principals including test-driven development
• 4+ years proficiency in secure coding practices and software engineering/development experience in object-oriented programming, including but not limited to C++/C# or related languages, Java, .Net framework and/or .Net Standard 8+
• 2 years experience with Identify and Access Management principles, and implementing access control methods in Web/API development
• 1 year experience leading projects, working with business customers on requirements analysis and design/architecture decisioning to lead to developed solutions that are scalable, robust, and highly available / performant

Even better, you may have...

• Web application and API development experience
• Familiarity with industry security standards, such as NIST and OWASP
• Google Cloud experience: CI/CD pipelines with Tekton, Terraform, implementation of Google Cloud services including CloudRun, KMS, MongoAtlas, SQL Postgres DB
• Experience with Openshift/Kubernetes
• Version control experience, preferably with Git
• Strong software testing skills (unit testing, functional testing, integration testing, load testing) and automation of test cases
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts and strategies
• Cloud technologies experience (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform)
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Ability to lead a project, working with business customers on requirements analysis and design/architecture decisioning to lead to developed solutions that are scalable, robust, and highly availably / performant
• Ability to develop and maintain technical documentation as required
• Familiarity with in-vehicle network architecture, modules, and protocols (CAN, FNV2 etc.) are a plus. 
• Experience with MongoDB Atlas 
   

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 of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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 more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRSP2 
This position is a range of salary grades 7-8 .

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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