Security Engineering Manager

Summary:

We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company - to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Position Summary

VIAVI Solutions is seeking a Manager, Security Engineering to provide technical leadership across the enterprise security engineering and architecture portfolio. This role is responsible for driving the design, implementation and continuous improvement of security technologies and technical controls across the enterprise, including cloud, identity, endpoint, network, data security, AI and emerging technologies.

This is a player-coach role with a strong hands-on expectation. The successful candidate will lead and develop security engineering capabilities while remaining directly engaged in architecture, engineering, technology evaluation, solution design, implementation and technical problem solving.

The Manager will partner closely with Cyber Defense, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Product Security, IT and Engineering teams to translate security and risk requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Security Engineering & Architecture

• Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise security technologies and controls.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across security architecture, solution design, implementation, integration and troubleshooting.
• Establish security engineering principles, standards, reference architectures and repeatable design patterns.
• Evaluate existing security technologies for effectiveness, scalability, integration and opportunities for optimization or consolidation.
• Provide security architecture guidance for cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, network, data and enterprise technology initiatives.
• Identify technical security gaps and develop pragmatic solutions that balance security, business requirements and operational impact.
• Develop and maintain the security engineering technology roadmap.
• Evaluate new security technologies and emerging capabilities based on risk reduction, effectiveness and business value.
• Drive automation and integration across security and enterprise technology platforms.

AI & Emerging Technology Security

• Provide technical security leadership for AI, GenAI, LLMs, autonomous agents and other emerging technologies.
• Define security architecture patterns and technical guardrails for AI applications, platforms and integrations.
• Lead or contribute to AI threat modeling, including risks involving prompt injection, data leakage, model and application abuse, excessive agency, privilege escalation and third-party integrations.
• Partner with IT, Product and Engineering teams to incorporate security into AI solution architecture and development practices.
• Develop security review and validation practices for higher-risk AI implementations.
• Translate AI governance and risk requirements into practical technical controls.
• Assess emerging AI security technologies and integrate appropriate capabilities into the broader security architecture.

Data & Technology Security

• Develop technical approaches for protecting sensitive information across enterprise and AI environments.
• Establish appropriate access-control patterns based on least privilege for systems, applications, AI services, APIs and data.
• Partner on the implementation and optimization of data protection capabilities, including DLP and applicable SaaS/web security controls.
• Develop technical controls to reduce inappropriate exposure of sensitive information through AI services and integrations.
• Partner with GRC, Privacy and data owners to translate data-protection requirements into effective technical solutions.

Security Partnership & Technical Risk

• Partner with Cyber Defense to improve security visibility, detection and response capabilities.
• Partner with GRC to translate risk, compliance and policy requirements into sustainable technical controls.
• Partner with Product Security on security architecture and engineering matters where enterprise and product environments intersect.
• Partner with IT and Engineering to embed security within technology architecture and implementation.
• Perform and lead security architecture reviews and support technical security risk assessments.
• Provide technical recommendations for security exceptions, risk remediation and control improvements.

Leadership

• Operate as a player-coach, balancing leadership responsibilities with direct technical contribution.
• Build, mentor and develop security engineering capabilities and technical talent.
• Establish priorities and promote engineering discipline, documentation, repeatability and accountability.
• Communicate complex technical risks and recommendations effectively to technical and business stakeholders.

Pre-Requisites / Skills / Experience Requirements:

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant hands-on experience in security engineering, architecture or related technical security disciplines.
• Deep hands-on expertise in multiple security domains and demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership across broader enterprise security technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls within complex enterprise environments.
• Strong security architecture, technical risk assessment and solution-design capabilities.
• Experience leading significant technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to translate security risks and business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML, GenAI, LLM or emerging technology security.
• Experience with cloud and SaaS security architectures.
• Experience with data security technologies, including DLP, CASB, SWG or SSE capabilities.
• Experience with identity, endpoint, network or application security technologies.
• Experience with threat modeling, secure development practices or security automation.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP or comparable technical certifications.
• Previous people-management or technical team leadership experience.

If you have what it takes to push boundaries and seize opportunities, apply to join our team today.

VIAVI Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer - minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities.