Cyber Security Engineer

Payrate

$75.88 - $75.88/hr.

We are seeking a highly motivated Security Technical Project Manager to join our growing team as we expand into newly acquired business adjacencies. This individual will help drive information security onboarding across acquired companies’ applications, infrastructure, and vendor ecosystems, ensuring alignment with corporate information security standards, policies, and industry best practices. The Security M&A Analyst will act as a liaison between the security organization, cross‑functional partners, and acquired company engineering, IT, compliance, and business teams.

The role will coordinate and collect metrics on key initiatives such as vendor security reviews, IAM/SSO onboarding, infrastructure hardening, PCI compliance, vulnerability management, and security design reviews for critical applications and product launches.

• Security Program Reporting
  • Maintain accurate and up-to-date reporting on security integration activities for acquired companies, including status of key initiatives, risks, and remediation efforts.
  • Track and report progress against M&A security roadmaps, milestones, and integration timelines.
• Produce regular security status reports and dashboards for leadership, highlighting:
  • Overall integration progress
  • Open and emerging risks
  • Compliance gaps and remediation status
  • Key blockers and dependencies
  • Maintain centralized tracking for:
  • Security risks and risk ratings
  • Exceptions, compensating controls, and risk acceptances
  • Vulnerabilities and remediation SLAs
  • Assist with preparing executive‑ready summaries that translate technical security issues into clear business risk and impact.
  • Monitor remediation timeline progress and escalate at‑risk or overdue items with supporting details to senior team members.
  • Ensure consistency and accuracy of reporting across multiple acquired entities and integration work streams.
  • Support ongoing improvements to reporting templates, metrics, and dashboards to enhance visibility into each acquired entity’s security program status.
  • Assist with ad‑hoc reporting requests related to M&A security activities as needed.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with engineering, IT, compliance, and legal teams to support the integration of security requirements into product and infrastructure life cycles.
  • Communicate security requirements, program timelines, and deliverables to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
  • Support senior security team members by providing visibility into security risk and technical compliance posture for acquired companies.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing or supporting security‑focused technical projects or programs.
• Experience supporting security initiatives related to cloud security, vulnerability management, infrastructure security, and IAM/SSO.
• Ability to work effectively with cross‑functional teams to coordinate tasks, manage multiple priorities, and track project timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and communicate security‑related information to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Exposure to information security program implementation or compliance management activities.
• Interest in or pursuit of relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, PMP, or cloud security certifications such as CCSK or CCSP).
• Strong problem‑solving skills, with the ability to identify issues and support pragmatic remediation approaches.

The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is $75.88 - $75.88/hour. Non‑exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience.

Full‑time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus.

Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.