Senior Director, Security Engineering

Modus Create

6d • Remote

About The Position

At Modus Create, we help organizations build modern platforms and products with confidence. As Senior Director of Security Engineering, you will lead and scale our Security Engineering capability—owning its vision, maturity, and impact across client delivery, internal operations, and long-term growth.
This role blends strategic leadership, deep technical credibility, and a consulting mindset, ensuring security is embedded into how we design, build, ship, and operate modern systems. You will guide Directors and senior practitioners, shape security strategy across platforms and products, and serve as a trusted advisor to executives, clients, and internal partners.
This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works closely with engineering, platform, delivery, sales, and operations leadership.

Requirements

• Empathetic Leader: 15+ years in security, software, or systems engineering roles, with 7+ years leading senior security engineers, managers, or Directors—ideally in global, distributed, or consulting environments.
• Technical Depth: Hands-on experience with modern security engineering across application, cloud, and platform environments, including secure SDLC, CI/CD security, infrastructure-as-code, and threat modeling.
• Business Savvy: Proven success supporting pre-sales, solutioning, and growing security-led engagements within enterprise or mid-market accounts.
• Builder and Mentor: Demonstrated ability to build scalable security practices, uplift team capabilities, and develop high-performing, inclusive security engineering teams.
• Client-Centric: Strong empathy for client risk, constraints, and delivery realities, with the ability to translate security needs into pragmatic, measurable outcomes.
• Communicator & Collaborator: Effective across technical, executive, and cross-functional settings, with the ability to clearly articulate risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.
• Security Engineering: secure-by-design systems, threat modeling, risk assessment, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident readiness and remediation
• Cloud & Infrastructure Security: cloud security architecture, multi-account strategy, IAM, network security, shared services, secure landing zones
• Application Security: secure SDLC, code review practices, dependency and supply-chain security, secrets management, configuration hardening
• DevSecOps & CI/CD: security automation in CI/CD pipelines, policy enforcement, secure build and release practices, artifact integrity
• Automation & IaC: infrastructure as code security, policy as code, configuration management, environment hardening
• Detection & Response: logging and telemetry for security, threat detection strategies, incident response workflows, root cause analysis
• Governance & Compliance: security controls, audit readiness, evidence-based reporting, risk management frameworks
• Architecture & Systems: distributed systems security, scalability considerations, fault tolerance, integration patterns, system hardening
• Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
• CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
• Security Tooling: SAST, DAST, SCA platforms, secrets management tools, cloud-native security services
• Identity & Access Management: cloud-native IAM tools, identity federation, access control systems
• Observability & Detection: logging and monitoring platforms, SIEM and alerting tools
• Collaboration & Delivery: Git-based workflows, issue tracking systems, documentation platforms

Responsibilities

• Embed Security into Modern Delivery
• Deliver Trusted, Secure Systems
• Lead & Grow Security Teams
• Shape Security Strategy & Best Practices
• Business Development & Client Advisory
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Benefits

• Remote work with flexible working hours
• Modus Global Office Program: for when you want to get out of your home, we offer on-demand access to private offices, meeting rooms, coworking spaces and business lounges in locations in over 120 countries.
• Employee Referral Program
• Client Referral Program
• Travel according to client or team needs
• The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech
• Additional benefits might apply contingent on your location.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed