DDI Engineering & Automation Lead

🕒 August 21

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 Description

• Lead network security architecture and engineering initiatives across global enterprise environments • Define and execute roadmaps for SASE, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and cloud-delivered security services • Design, implement, and maintain secure solutions including firewalls, proxies, DDI, wireless security, and load balancing platforms • Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and customer experience • Partner with Network Operations, Security Operations, Product Engineering, and external vendors to deliver secure and reliable services • Identify security vulnerabilities and lead remediation activities, including response to critical security advisories and zero-day threats • Establish monitoring, observability, and reliability practices supporting 99.999% service availability objectives • Lead technical reviews, architecture assessments, and major incident response activities • Develop and maintain security standards, policies, and best practices • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering teams across global regions • Support Ford's enterprise network and security architecture transformation • Report to the Regional Network Delivery Manager • Work with network and security peers from other regions to ensure always-on global network product availability

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or related discipline • 12+ years of enterprise IT experience • 6+ years of network security engineering experience in large enterprise environments • Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Prisma Access, Cisco Umbrella, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions • Strong expertise in enterprise network security architecture, firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and proxy technologies • Experience with DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) platforms • Strong knowledge of routing, switching, wireless technologies, WAN, SD-WAN, and software-defined networking • Experience with F5 load balancers, SSL offloading, virtual servers, and iRule development • Hands-on experience with network troubleshooting and packet analysis tools such as Wireshark and Viavi Observer • Experience driving automation using scripting languages and APIs • Strong stakeholder management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills • Palo Alto, Cisco, or F5 certifications preferred • Knowledge of cloud networking and cloud security architectures preferred • Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, or network automation frameworks preferred • Experience implementing observability and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• 24 x 7 availability responsibility • 99.999% service availability objectives