{"id":3924887,"url":"https://alion.io/job/morningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering","title":"Senior Manager, Security Engineering","company":{"id":12394,"name":"Morningstar","domain":"morningstar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/morningstar","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":14,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.286,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":31,"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Cortex XSOAR","optional":false},{"name":"Crowdstrike","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"SIEM","optional":false},{"name":"Splunk","optional":false},{"name":"Tines","optional":false},{"name":"Wiz","optional":false},{"name":"Zscaler","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-07T18:20:48Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-07","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T14:24:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About the Team:\nSecurity Operations & Engineering protects Morningstar’s corporate environment, products, and the cloud platforms behind them. The group includes two distinct teams: the 24x7 Security Operations Center, and Security Engineering, which this role leads.\nSecurity Engineering owns the tooling that makes detection, response, and prevention possible, including NGAV/EDR, email security, SOAR, detection engineering, and CSPM. Because Morningstar builds its software in house, we also provide the security foundations product development teams build on, such as security scanning in pipelines, hardened container images, and library integrations. We work closely with product engineering and product security teams to make the secure path the easy one, and we focus on the platforms, tooling, and guardrails that let security scale.\nThe Role:\nLead the Security Engineering team that owns the tooling behind Morningstar’s security program, including endpoint protection, email security, SOAR, detection engineering, and cloud security posture management. You’ll set the team’s priorities, grow its engineers, and make sure the platforms they run give the SOC and the business the visibility, automation, and protection they need. You’ll also guide the shared security foundations that product teams build on, like pipeline scanning, hardened container images, and library integrations. Reporting to the Director of Security Operations & Engineering, you’ll coach your team and stay close enough to the work to help solve difficult technical problems. You’ll have room to shape how engineering and incident response work together, with direct access to security leadership and product development teams.\nThis on-site role is based in Chicago, IL. It may be filled at the Manager or Senior Manager level, depending on your experience and prior leadership scope. You’ll participate in an infrequent, emergency-only escalation rotation outside normal business hours.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nLead and develop security engineers and the incident response lead. Set clear expectations, plan workloads, and support hiring, performance management, and career growth.\nOwn the engineering roadmap for detection and security platforms, balancing operational needs with architecture, platform health, and technical debt. The stack includes Splunk, CrowdStrike, Wiz and Wiz Defend, and Zscaler.\nWork with the 24x7 SOC to improve detections and playbooks, automate manual work with XSOAR or Tines, and apply AI where it can improve detection, triage, and response. Track detection quality, automation coverage, and response performance; explain progress and risk to senior leaders.\nHelp the incident response lead handle complex investigations and containment. Make sure responders have the tools and support they need, turn lessons learned into engineering improvements, and troubleshoot alongside engineers when they are blocked.\nPartner with product development, cloud platform, and infrastructure teams to strengthen security across AWS, GCP, and Azure while supporting product delivery.\nIntegrate automated security checks into product teams’ CI/CD pipelines, including Harness. Help secure agentic and AI-assisted development pipelines, where autonomous tools write, test, and deploy code.\nWhat we’re looking for:\n4+ years of people management experience, or equivalent technical leadership experience, in security engineering or security operations, with examples of developing people and delivering engineering work.\nHands-on security engineering knowledge and the ability to troubleshoot complex problems with your team. Experience with SIEM, endpoint detection and response, cloud security posture management, and security automation or orchestration is required; comparable tools are welcome.\nCloud security experience in a large, multi-cloud environment, ideally including AWS at scale, plus knowledge of incident investigation, containment, and post-incident improvement.\nSound technical judgment and clear communication with engineers, analysts, and senior leaders, including colleagues in globally distributed teams.\nCI/CD security experience is a plus, including static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), secrets scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning. CISSP, CISM, or GIAC certifications are welcome, not required\nCompensation and Benefits\nAt Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:\nFinancial Health\n100% 401k match up to 6% of salary\n\nStock Ownership Potential\n\nCompany provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission\n\nPhysical Health\nComprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages\n\nAdditional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual\n\nCompany-provided long- and short-term disability insurance\n\nEmotional Health\nTrust-Based Time Off\n\n6-week Paid Sabbatical Program\n\n6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave\n\nCompetitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave\n\nAdoption Assistance\n\nLeadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities\n\nAnnual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses\n\nTuition Reimbursement\n\nSocial Health\nCharitable Matching Gifts program\n\nDollars for Doers volunteer program\n\nPaid volunteering days\n\n15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups\n\nTotal Cash Compensation Range\n$151,975.00-233,025.00Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive\nMorningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.\n001_MstarInc Morningstar Inc. Legal Entity","description_format":"text","description_chars":6246,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Hybrid work","Life insurance","Paid volunteering days","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Data & Market Intelligence","Financial News & Media"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-07T18:20:48Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 29 · green card filings: 11","filings_12m":29,"filings_prev_12m":40,"green_card_filings_12m":11,"median_offered_wage_usd":127625,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-09T07:32:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/morningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/morningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T14:27:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":19805,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":12394},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=12394"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmorningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmorningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmorningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/morningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmorningstar-senior-manager-security-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3924887}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"morningstar.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3924887},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}