Senior Security Engineer

About the position

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for leading multiple security engineering efforts that deliver enterprise security capabilities. This will include serving as a subject matter expert of security technology and acting as the critical decision maker with regards to technical design, security policy and implementation for respective security initiatives. Job expectations include assigning tasks and providing direction to team members, owning tactical decisions, and fostering relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a subject matter expert for one or more engineering initiatives and is the point of contact for clients to produce reporting as needed
• Defines major milestones, key performance metrics, and outcomes for engineering initiatives to aid in assigning tasks and mentoring security engineers
• Leads the delivery of the major engineering milestones and acts as the critical decision maker with regards to technical design and implementation
• Identifies and raises risks or potential vulnerabilities at all stages of the security-engineering process
• Works closely with a diverse set of stakeholders with varying priorities to debate and negotiate paths forward
• Navigates and works effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization
• Thinks outside the box in order to develop multiple solutions to complex problems

Requirements

• 8+ years of Information Technology Engineering (e.g.: System, Network, Software)
• Engineering Lead and/or people management experience
• Excellent technical communication skills, ability to lead, influence and communicate at multiple organization levels
• Security Development experience, specifically being able to lead developers who write security policies in multi-cloud technologies and understanding of cloud security products (e.g.: open policy agent, Sentinel, Rego, Terraform)
• Cloud knowledge on one of the major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Wiz Cyber Security - CSPM, DSPM, Workload protection a major plus.