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The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with the leadership to guide a multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced environment.\nGeneral Responsibilities\nServe as the principal technical authority and design lead across security engineering, IAM, vulnerability management, and security operations.\n\nOwn and maintain the security engineering roadmap, standards, and reference architectures, and drive maturity improvements over time.\n\nProvide technical direction, coaching, and mentorship to security engineers and analysts, and partner with leadership on hiring and skills development.\n\nLead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of security tools and platforms, and own key vendor and technical relationships.\n\nDesign and implement enterprise security solutions across network, endpoint, cloud, and application layers, including firewalls, EDR/XDR, SIEM, and DLP.\n\nDevelop and enforce security policies, procedures, and hardening standards to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company data.\n\nOwn the identity architecture - SSO, MFA, conditional access, least-privilege/RBAC, and privileged access management (PAM).\n\nDirect the vulnerability management program - scanning strategy, risk-based prioritization, SLAs, and remediation governance - including penetration-testing engagement and closure.\n\nAct as senior escalation point for complex investigations and major-incident response, leading containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.\n\nGuide detection engineering and threat hunting, and incorporate threat intelligence into defensive controls.\n\nCommunicate risk, roadmap, and incident posture clearly to technical teams and executive stakeholders.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.\n\n8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or a related role, including demonstrated experience as a technical lead.\n\nProven ability to set technical direction, mentor engineers, and own security architecture or programs.\n\nDeep, hands-on expertise across multiple domains (security engineering, IAM, vulnerability management, and security operations) with strong working knowledge of all four.\n\nStrong understanding of threat analysis, mitigation techniques, and incident response.\n\nFamiliarity with industry standards such as NIST CSF.\n\nTechnical expertise in several of the following security tools and technologies: Firewall Management, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Privileged Access Management (PAM).\n\nProficiency with scripting and automation (e.g., PowerShell, Python) and automation-first engineering practices.\n\nExcellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nRelated cybersecurity work experience in OT/Industrial Control Systems (SCADA) environments.\n\nSenior certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, Microsoft SC-series, or equivalent experience.\n\nPermian Resourceis an equal opportunity employer. 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