About the role

What will you do at Ford Motor Company?

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?

The Product Cybersecurity PKI & Key Mgmt Security Services team generates,

distributes, stores, and manages lifecycle for the cryptographic keys in the

vehicle product ecosystem. This includes developing and maintaining in-house

APIs and web services to provide confidentiality, integrity and authenticity

protection for various use cases and features in the product ecosystem.

The Product Cybersecurity PKI & Key Mgmt Security Services team is directly

engaged with the entire end-to-end solution for Vehicle Products and ecosystem,

providing key management, PKI certificate lifecycle management and relative

security services that support everything from ECU manufacturing to customer

facing features.

In addition to managing the product ecosystem cryptographic keys, the team

develops and maintains various security API services built on the foundation and

usage of cryptographic keys – including vehicle secure messaging from cloud,

software signing, UDS diagnostics, EV charging and more. Our infrastructure

cloud and on-premises servers and hardware security modules (HSM) running our

services and powering our product PKI.

Which skills does this role require?

Public Key InfrastructureKey ManagementSoftware EngineeringSecure CodingC#C++JavaPythonCloud InfrastructureKubernetesOpenShiftSQLPostgresRedisMongoDBCybersecurityPKIAPINISTOWASPISOIEEERSAECCAESX.509PKCS#11ACMEOCSPCRLHSMGitTest-driven developmentIdentity and Access ManagementObject Oriented ProgrammingCISSP

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