Director, Security Engineering
About The Position
ECS is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to work remotely. At Everforth ECS, we solve complex cybersecurity and technology challenges for commercial, government, defense, and intelligence customers. We are seeking a Director of Security Engineering to lead the team responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the security technologies that support our managed cybersecurity services. This is a senior technical leadership role that combines engineering strategy, people leadership, customer engagement, and hands-on technical oversight. The Director will lead a cross-functional team of security engineers and partner closely with Security Operations, Sales, partner vendor teams, and customer teams to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, network engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in cybersecurity, IT, network operations, or security operations environments.
- Strong understanding of enterprise security architectures, including several of the following: SIEM and security analytics; EDR/XDR and endpoint security; data loss prevention; network and cloud security; Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR); Identity and security integrations; and logging, telemetry, and monitoring systems.
- Experience designing, deploying, integrating, or operating security technologies in complex enterprise or multi-customer environments.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture practices, and technical roadmaps.
- Experience leading major technical implementations, migrations, integrations, or modernization efforts.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across security, network, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Proven ability to build, mentor, and lead high-performing technical teams.
- Strong ability to translate business and operational goals into engineering priorities and execution plans.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, priorities, risks, and customer commitments.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to engage technical leaders, executives, and stakeholders.
- Sound technical judgment with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across security, reliability, cost, scalability, and operational impact.
Nice To Haves
- Preference will be given to applicants who have led large cybersecurity engineering teams at the Director level or above.
Responsibilities
- Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing security engineering team.
- Define the technical strategy, architecture standards, and roadmap for our security platforms.
- Oversee the design, deployment, integration, and lifecycle management of technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, network and cloud security, and security automation.
- Identify and implement practical applications of AI across security engineering operations to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate troubleshooting and analysis, automate repeatable workflows, and enhance the scalability of managed services.
- Review complex technical designs and serve as the senior escalation point for engineering and customer issues.
- Lead engineering efforts for customer onboarding, platform deployments, migrations, service expansions, and modernization initiatives.
- Work directly with customers to understand requirements, present architectures, explain technical decisions, and resolve concerns.
- Partner with Security Operations, Sales, and the PMO to ensure solutions are delivered successfully and can be effectively operated and supported.
- Drive automation, standardization, platform reliability, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors and make recommendations on adoption, modernization, and retirement.
- Manage engineering priorities, staffing, hiring, performance, professional development, and delivery risk.
- Support solution development, technical proposals, and strategic customer engagements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- General Description of Benefit [https://ecstech.com/careers/benefits]
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
