Security Operations Lead, BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

Make history and make the future at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan

If you are ready to change the way the world moves, join us at BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, a new state-of-the-art facility in Marshall, Michigan. You will be a key part of the launch team that will help bring the electrification revolution to driveways, job sites, and highways everywhere. BlueOval Battery Park Michigan will produce lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells to power the next-generation Ford EV passenger vehicles and trucks under development.

This new wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company will create more than 1,700 jobs when production begins in 2026.

At BlueOval Battery Park Michigan, you will…

• Use your entrepreneurial skills and team mindset to come up with data-driven solutions.
• Build and lead an agile team to deliver the advanced technology that drives the future.
• Create a culture of trust, encourage diversity of thought, and foster leadership in others. 
• Be part of the historic transformation of the automotive industry.

You will also…

• Manage the architecture, design and tool selection for cyber defense operations for BlueOval Battery Michigan. 
• Lead the process and technologies present in a 24x7 cyber defense operation
• Select and implement new security tools and practices
• Identify and contain the remediation of security threats and cyber attacks
• Grow the presence and thought leadership of BlueOval Battery Michigan’s cyber defense operations practice
• Manage threat modelling and other security operations practices across the business
• Participate in the security team on-call rotation
• Collaborate closely with the Security Architecture & Engineering and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) teams to address vulnerabilities and gaps identified from incidents
• Provide leadership for incident response investigations, coordinate response activity and brief senior leaders while maintaining confidentiality
• Leverage the incident response program to conduct cyber table-top simulations and educational sessions with stakeholders

You'll have... 

• Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education and experience
• 7+ years of experience in information security operations and/or engineering, and reliability in the following areas:
  • Proven track record of mitigating with advanced threat actors and nation state threats
  • Expert technical understanding of security operations from the ground up
  • In depth knowledge of security operations architecture and design including strategies for logging, firewalls, network segmentation, endpoint, honeypots etc.
  • Ability to define, implement, automate and measure effective incident response playbooks
  • Experience with security posture management of corporate endpoints
  • Experience contributing to, and consuming, threat intelligence feeds
  • Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Ability to travel internationally less than 10% of the time.

Even better, you may have...

• Master’s Degree
• Experience in offensive or defensive security teams with hands-on ability
• Knowledge of security architecture and market-leading security tools
• Experience succeeding in elevated levels of complexity, exposure, to multiple business issues, ambiguity, and conflict.
• Hands-on development, engineering, networking, cloud, and/or other technical work experience.
• Experience with common information security management frameworks, such as International Standards Organization (ISO) 2700x, NIST-CSF series and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
• Experience with Microsoft, Palo Alto, and Cisco security technologies. 

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we have outlined, but if you think you can bring value to the BlueOval Battery Park Michigan facility, 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 the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage,
• Flexible family care, parental leave, and more.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members,
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, and paid time off

This role will start remote and then will be working hybrid out of Marshall, MI, with expectation to be on-site as needed at Marshall once building construction and timing is established (relocation package available). 

Once your employment with Ford commences, you will be assigned to BlueOval Battery Michigan LLC.  You will continue to be employed by Ford Motor Company but work for BlueOval Battery Michigan LLC, a Ford wholly owned subsidiary located in Marshall, Michigan.  You will remain an at-will employee at all times during your employment with Ford or any Ford affiliate or subsidiary with which you later become employed.  

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: https://corporate.ford.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en-us/documents/careers/2024-benefits-and-comp-GSR-sal-plan-1.pdf

This position is a salary grade 8.

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. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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