Senior Cyber Security Engineer - Automation, Data Center & Networking Security

Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) is building the future of Ford’s autonomy roadmap to make travel safer, less stressful, and more enjoyable for everyone. Bringing this vision to scale, our fully in-house developed hands-free ADAS platform will debut on Ford’s all-new Universal Electric Vehicle in 2027. When you join the Latitude team, you’ll work alongside leading experts across machine learning and robotics, cloud platforms, mapping, sensors and compute systems, test operations, systems and safety engineering – all dedicated to redefining the relationship between people and their vehicles for millions of customers.

As a Ford Motor Company subsidiary, we operate independently to develop automated driving technology at the speed of a technology startup. Latitude is headquartered in Pittsburgh with engineering centers in Dearborn, Mich., and Palo Alto, Calif.

• Plan for, execute, and follow through on projects and engagements independently
• Apply best practices in software, network, and infrastructure engineering
• Deliver projects on time, on budget, with excellent quality and security configurations
• Review the existing and new deployments and architecture designs looking for design flaws, security improvements, and advocate for stronger security controls that meet functional and operational needs
• Work hand-in-hand with the Cloud Platform, IT, and Product teams to research, design and develop security solutions and deployments and strategies tailored to Latitude’s business needs
• Engage actively in Data Center and Network Security initiatives to assess existing security and implementations of supplemental technical solutions to improve security
• Document findings, conduct comparisons, perform threat and risk assessments, and Proof of Concepts aiding the team in making informed decisions about the impact of various design options
• Develop, Review, and Design the automation and orchestration for security aspects of cloud and virtualized deployments
• Provide inputs into dashboards and report metrics on the status of the Cyber Security posture
• Hands on deployment of solutions, working independently and as part of a team
• Provide mentoring and skill set knowledge transfer to team members and engineering staff
• Moderate and contribute to Supercomputing System Administration that contributes to:
  Proactive monitoring, analysis, and correcting system security issues
• Development of scripts to automate, perform security checks, and develop tools to enhance support of the Cloud/Virtualized systems and development environments Developing playbooks/runbooks, operational and troubleshooting documentation
• Evaluate and contribute to designs for Network and Infrastructure Solutions with Security and Functionality as pillars of implementation
• Consult and advocate security best practices for DMZ architectures, NAC/NAP, lateral isolation, and multi-site data movement in Network management tooling (like Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5)

• At a minimum, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security or a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience (or Master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience)
• Strongly prefer 8+ years related experience or 6 years with a Master’s degree; as a Data Center/Virtualization and/or Network Security Architect/Engineer 2+ years of related experience in vulnerability management and adjusting the risk rating/severity dependent on internal factors for cloud and other infra
• High proficiency and Hands-on experience in cloud/virtualization technologies (AWS/HPC/MAAS)
• Experience with Lustre, Kerberos, and Linux Administration
• Proficiency in scripting languages, including Bash, Python, Go, or Java to create production level services and automation tools that incorporate into CI/CD
• Proficiency and hands-on experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the creation of cloud resources, virtualized systems, and review infrastructure deployments.
  
  E.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, or others
• Ability to grasp new technologies quickly and prioritize and multitask on multiple responsibilities
• Hands-on Experience with patching and hardening Linux,…