At Ford Motor Company, we believe freedom of movement drives human progress. We also believe in providing you with the freedom to define and realize your goals. With our incredible plans for the future of mobility, we have a wide variety of opportunities for you to accelerate your career potential as you help us define tomorrow's transportation.

As a key member of our Information Technology group, you'll play a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

This is a fully Remote opportunity within the US

What you'll be able to do:

The position requires someone capable of managing sophisticated technical details and who is proficient across multiple disciplines (planning, requirements gathering and validation, system design, development, and configuration). Due to the global nature of the Enterprise Directory data management services and Azure Active Directory, this position provides the outstanding opportunity to engage with multiple business teams, joint ventures, and different Ford IT organizations (Office of the CIO/Strategy, IT Operations, Application Development, and Enterprise Connectivity etc.).

Skills Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Enterprise Identity provisioning and Enterprise Directory and Azure Active directory data management.
• Release engineering, provisioning and maintenance of infrastructure, system administration and security.
• Implementation of DevOps development processes, continuous integration and delivery, application infrastructure and continuous feedback for Azure Active Directory.
• Azure Active Directory experience: Role-based access control (RBAC), Conditional Access, Security, role administration and group management.
• Incident, Knowledge, Problem, Rally and Change Management
• Maintain test Disaster Recovery document, and perform backup and Disaster Recovery procedures.
• Maintain documentation of all administrative processes, procedures, and configurations.
• Cooperate with fellow team members to improve tools, technology stack, and application performance and stability.
• Resolve issues and concerns through collaboration with customers, engineering SMEs, and product vendors.
• Propose, configure, and implement enterprise solutions (covering both process and technical aspects) according to established standards and best practices.
• Lead the design, implementation, integration, and upkeep of software, technical infrastructure, and services (all aspects of the technology lifecycle).
• Develop implementation requirements for the technical backbone and services.
• Develops project charters and/or project requirements (cost, timing, scope, contingency, and risks).
• Develop support and deployment plans technical infrastructure and services.
• Automate server related maintenance tasks.
• Deploy product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet customer needs.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field of study.
• 1+ year of Azure Active Directory hands on working experience.
• 3+ years of IT experience.

Our preferred requirements:

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees and management!
• Highly motivated individual with deep technical skills and desire to resolve problems!
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail and quality!
• Solid understanding in Security domains, especially Identity and Access management.
• Hands on experience of PowerShell, Java, Python, C++ script programming.
• Shown hands on experience of ASP.NET and C# programming.
• Firsthand experience of developing and management of RESTful API.
• 1+ years of configuration experience of Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).
• Experience of designing and implementing applications and infrastructure within the Microsoft Windows environment.
• Comfortable working and understanding directories (like Active Directory), Microsoft Windows Server 2016, MongoDB, and Microsoft SQL Server 2016.
• Desire and ability to learn new technology quickly.
• Be passionate about working within a team environment, also self-motivated.
• Proven track record to develop and document requirements.
• Ability to solve complex issues with little mentorship.
• Experience with Rally and Agile development.

What you'll receive in return:

As part of the Ford Family, you'll enjoy excellent compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous PTO, retirement, savings and stock investment plans, incentive compensation and much more. You'll also experience exciting opportunities for professional and personal growth and recognition.

If you have what it takes to help us redefine the future of mobility, we'd love to have you join us. 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. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

By choice, 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.

At Ford, the health and safety of our employees is our top priority. Vaccination has been proven to play a critical role in combating COVID-19. As a result, Ford has made the decision to require U.S. salaried employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless employees require an accommodation for religious or medical reasons. Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. As a condition of employment, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption.

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