VP, Security Engineer

Staff Security Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Security Engineer to help lead highly technical projects to improve our Security Engineering function. This individual will be instrumental in designing and building solutions that provide security enablement for critical initiatives such as AI Security or Enterprise Cloud Migration, while providing technical leadership across diverse teams.

The ideal candidate will possess hands-on and conceptual experience across multiple technology and security domains, such as AI Security, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, Data Protection, Perimeter Defense, and Cryptography. The ability to think strategically, influence, and foster cross-functional collaboration is essential to becoming successful in this role.

This role will play a critical part in advancing our security initiatives in the public cloud and will have significant remit to influence implementation of core security solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with security and technology leadership, serving as a trusted advisor, and significantly influence the organization's security strategy.
• Drive complex security initiatives across teams, proactively identifying and leading high-impact projects to success and with efficiency.
• Drives security technology innovation, challenge the status quo, and provide thought leadership.
• Contribute to the development of cutting-edge security practices and technologies.
• Provide strategic guidance and direction to security leadership that is adopted into the organization's overall security strategy.
• Fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration across the Security Engineering organization.
• Design and implement scalable and automated security solutions that bridge on-prem security technologies with cloud environments.
• Serve as a senior hands-on resource and subject matter expert, working closely with security architects and engineers, while guiding the adoption of best practices across the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess, prioritize, and mitigate security risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop nuanced technical plans, document analyses, create visual diagrams, and communicate technical projects with associated trade-offs.
• Develop, maintain, and update security policies, standards, and procedures aligned with industry regulations and organizational goals.
• Help to evaluate and integrate new security technologies, tools, and processes to improve the organization's security posture while documenting requirements.
• Lead efforts to ensure AWS cloud services and technologies are built and engineered with security best practices in mind.
• Advise and strengthen technical implementation of core services like data protection controls and network security segmentation, for example.
• Act as a liaison between security teams and engineering teams to ensure security is embedded within all stages of infrastructure and application development.
• Represent the security function in technical discussions, architecture reviews, and governance processes.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Information Security, Engineering, Application Development, or related field OR in lieu of a degree, a High School Diploma/GED and minimum 9 years equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrable working knowledge of regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, NIST 800-53, etc.)
• Proven experience in driving and building (including coding) wide-impacting Security initiatives, from ideation to proof-of-concept to launch
• Outstanding interpersonal and collaboration skills, specifically the ability to drive consensus and manage the non-technical aspects of Engineering initiatives
• Ability to think critically and make informed, data-driven decisions
• Experience interfacing with senior management and providing information in a manner that can be consumed by multiple levels of management
• Recognized for their ability to teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts and individual contributors
• Strong ability to adapt to evolving circumstances, technologies,…