Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
About The Position
TENEX.AI is seeking an engineering leader to own the foundational delivery of its Managed Detection and Response service. The Director will oversee how Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform are built, deployed, integrated, and managed in customer environments. The role focuses on time-to-protection and repeatable, high-quality multi-SIEM delivery at scale, including platform setup, customer data and tooling integration, detection content and context operationalization, and ongoing platform health. This is an engineering leadership position rather than an advisory or product-building role. The team implements and manages platforms, working with advisory and agentic engineering teams to deploy and integrate their work and relay relevant field context. The Director will establish repeatable delivery processes, lead and develop the engineering team, manage capacity against customer demand, and own delivery quality, SLOs, and OKRs. The role partners with customer success, product management, threat intelligence, and cyber defense throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering.
- At least 3 years of experience managing engineers, ideally including leads or managers.
- Hands-on depth across Google SecOps (Chronicle ingestion, parsers/CBN, YARA-L, and entity graph) and Microsoft Sentinel (KQL, analytics rules, data connectors, and Log Analytics), or deep expertise in one and strong credibility in the other with the ability to lead both.
- Experience with integration engineering, including data-source onboarding, connector/API development, and normalization across platforms.
- Demonstrated experience building repeatable delivery at scale, including playbooks, quality gates, and capacity planning.
- Strong customer-facing communication skills and ability to own a delivery relationship with a customer security team.
- Comfort with multi-tenant delivery and content-as-code / CI/CD workflows.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice To Haves
- SOAR or automation experience, including Chronicle SOAR or Sentinel automation rules and playbooks.
- Experience with pipeline and telemetry tools such as Bindplane, Logstash, or equivalent.
- Terraform or infrastructure-as-code experience for repeatable environment setup.
- Prior MSSP, MDR, or managed security services experience.
- Experience operating alongside agentic and advisory functions without absorbing their scope.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, Google Cloud Professional, Microsoft SC-200/AZ-500, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
Responsibilities
- Own time-to-protection and repeatability for deploying Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform in customer environments.
- Lead multi-SIEM engineering, including building, deploying, and managing pipelines, parsers, detections, playbooks, and other platform configurations.
- Own integrations, including data-source onboarding, connector and API work, and normalization that connect customer environments and security tooling to the SIEMs and Tenex Platform.
- Develop reusable integration patterns.
- Own context engineering, including data mappings, entity resolution, tuning, and customer-environment knowledge.
- Manage deployed platforms across the customer portfolio, including platform health, optimization, and lifecycle.
- Build repeatable delivery processes, including playbooks, intake, quality gates, and capacity planning.
- Hire, coach, and develop engineers responsible for platform implementation, content, and integration.
- Manage team capacity against the customer pipeline and own delivery quality, SLOs, and OKRs.
- Partner with customer success, product management, threat intelligence, and cyber defense across the delivery lifecycle.
- Maintain support and information-relay channels with advisory and agentic engineering functions.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for growth and development, with opportunities to expand expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering.
- Opportunity to work with AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms.
- Opportunity to collaborate with a team focused on improving security operations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
