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Under the guidance of the organization’s CISO, this role is accountable for leading the Security Engineering and CloudSecOps function, defining and executing the security engineering roadmap, and ensuring scalable, resilient, and compliant security controls across cloud, hybrid, network, endpoint, application, identity, and data environments. This person will lead and mentor a high-performing team, collaborate with IT, DevOps, Engineering, Product, Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and business stakeholders, and drive automation, continuous monitoring, incident readiness, vulnerability management, and secure-by-design practices across the enterprise.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nUnder the guidance of organization’s CISO, lead and mature a world-class Security Engineering and CloudSecOps program that protects the company, its customers, and its brand. \nEstablish, lead, mentor, and expand the Security Engineering and CloudSecOps team, fostering a culture of high performance, continuous learning, accountability, automation, and operational excellence. \nDefine and execute the security engineering roadmap across enterprise security solutions, cloud security, network security, application security, endpoint security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and detection engineering. \nOwn and evolve the enterprise cloud security architecture across cloud platforms, SaaS providers, hybrid infrastructure, applications, networking, and operational technologies, ensuring alignment with business strategy and risk tolerance. \nDesign, configure, deploy, administer, maintain, monitor, and report on enterprise security solutions, including but not limited to EDR, DLP, email security, access control, vulnerability scanners, SIEM, cloud security posture management, cloud workload protection, and security automation tooling. \nPartner with IT, DevOps, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams to embed security into architecture reviews, development pipelines, cloud deployment processes, infrastructure as code, vulnerability remediation workflows, and continuous compliance practices. \nDevelop and implement cloud identity and access management strategies, including least privilege, federation, privileged access, just-in-time access, identity governance, and Zero Trust principles. \nLead cloud and enterprise security hardening initiatives across systems, applications, databases, data centers, network environments, and cloud-native services. \nDrive threat detection, incident response readiness, security monitoring, alert tuning, tabletop exercises, and security automation to improve response effectiveness and reduce manual operational effort. \nAssist in designing, testing, and executing the company’s security incident response and BC/DR plans. \nReview and provide security and compliance recommendations to appropriate IT, DevOps, Engineering, Product, and business projects to ensure security concerns are addressed throughout the project lifecycle. \nParticipate in internal security audits, risk assessments, control testing, and gap analyses to identify weaknesses, assess effectiveness of existing controls, and recommend remediation actions. \nDevelop and report security metrics, KPIs, KRIs, and operational dashboards to communicate program performance, control health, vulnerability trends, incident readiness, and risk reduction progress to leadership and stakeholders. \nPartner with Cyber Risk & Compliance, Privacy, Legal, Customer Security, and business stakeholders to support regulatory requirements, customer assessments, security questionnaires, audits, and contractual security commitments. \nResearch and maintain effective knowledge of emerging technologies, cloud-native security capabilities, attack techniques, security threats, and applicable regulations; provide guidance to management for strategic planning. \nManage security engineering vendors, managed security service providers, and technology partners to ensure solutions are effective, cost-conscious, integrated, and aligned with enterprise objectives. \nWrite and review technical reports, architecture recommendations, executive updates, and incident or risk communications as needed. \nSolve conflicts and issues in a timely manner, escalating to manager as appropriate. \nWork individually and in a team environment. Multitask and use time efficiently to meet project/task deadlines in a fast-paced environment. \nOther duties as assigned. \nSkills Required\nUniversity degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology (or equivalent of education and work experience) \nMinimum of 10 years of experience in Information Security, IT Security, Security Engineering, Cloud Security, and/or Security Operations \nMinimum of 3-5 years of people management and leadership experience, preferably leading security engineering, cloud security, security operations, or technical security teams \nOne or more of the following certifications: CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CISA, CRISC, HCISPP, SSCP, or similar security certification \nDemonstrated technical skills in enterprise security, cloud security, network security, application security, endpoint security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, and security operations \nStrong understanding of cloud security architecture and cloud-native security controls across AWS, Azure, GCP, SaaS, or hybrid environments \nExperience securing cloud deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, DevOps/DevSecOps workflows, and automated compliance monitoring \nKnowledge of cybersecurity frameworks and relevant regulatory requirements, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST 800, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, SOC 1, SOC 2, and applicable privacy regulations \nTechnical understanding of IP networking, data centers, disaster recovery, systems, applications, databases, and cloud-native services \nExperience with security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and security control validation \nAbility to develop and/or modify policies, procedures, standards, architecture patterns, and technical guidelines in alignment with regulatory requirements and management objectives \nDemonstrated organizational, facilitation, presentation, project management, and executive communication skills with 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