Senior Cyber Security Engineer - Identity and Device Management, & Networking Security

Location: Pittsburgh, PA; Palo Alto, CA; or Dearborn, MI, United States

Base salary in California: $160,000–$240,000 USD annually. Actual pay depends on work location, experience, education, training, and skills; bonus and equity compensation may also apply.

Company

hirify.global, a Ford Motor Company subsidiary operating with the speed of a technology startup, develops hands-free automated driving technology and Ford’s autonomy platform.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, deployment, and continuous improvement of identity, device management, network, data center, HPC, and virtualization security.
• Secure DMZ architectures, NAC/NAP, lateral isolation, multi-site data movement, firewalls, and network management platforms including Palo Alto, Fortinet, and F5.
• Partner with Cloud Platform, IT, Product, software, hardware, network, and fleet operations teams to develop security solutions aligned with business and operational needs.
• Review architectures and deployments, identify design flaws, conduct threat and risk assessments, document findings, and support proofs of concept and informed design decisions.
• Develop automation, orchestration, scripts, dashboards, playbooks, runbooks, and troubleshooting documentation for security controls and cloud or virtualized systems.
• Execute security projects independently, deploy solutions hands-on, contribute to supercomputing administration, and mentor engineering and security staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strongly preferred: 8+ years of related experience, or 6 years with a master’s degree, in identity and device management engineering and/or network security architecture or engineering, including deploying solutions from scratch to production.
• 2+ years of vulnerability management experience, including adjusting risk severity for cloud and other infrastructure based on internal factors.
• Experience with Lustre, Kerberos, Linux administration, and patching and hardening Linux, macOS, and Windows clients, servers, images, and containers.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, Go, or Java for production-level services and automation tools integrated into CI/CD.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience for cloud resources, virtualized systems, and infrastructure deployments, using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Proficiency in network protocols and firewall management, including configuration and optimization for internal and perimeter security.
• Experience architecting and deploying scalable security services and workloads in cloud-native and virtualized environments, including device management solutions controlling access to company solutions.
• Strong understanding of cyber security standards including ISO 27001 and NIST 800-53, plus experience with Zero Trust Architecture principles and implementations.
• Ability to balance security requirements with mission needs, understand engineering limitations, work independently across multiple responsibilities, and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, communication, and technical diagramming skills.
• Exposure to data governance, secure data movement, and storage lifecycle management.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

Nice to have

• Experience with Jenkins.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with competitive compensation, annual bonus eligibility, equity compensation, and company benefits subject to eligibility.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance; HSA with employer match; employer-matched 401(k) with immediate vesting; life insurance; and pre-tax healthcare, dependent-care, and commuter accounts.
• Paid parental, medical, adoption, and surrogacy leave; unlimited vacation; and 15 paid holidays.
• Professional development reimbursement, monthly wellness stipend, backup child and elder care, employee assistance, and discounted legal, identity protection, and pet insurance programs.
• Daily office lunches, snacks, and beverages, employee resource groups, quarterly team activity stipends, and wellness initiatives.