Sr. Director, Cyber Engineering

Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

Location:

Richmond, VA, USA, 9954 Mayland Drive (on-site)

Sr. Director of Cybersecurity Engineering is responsible for leading teams that engineer, implement, and continuously improve enterprise security controls and platforms across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application, and data environments. This leader partners with the CISO organization, Technology Leadership, risk/compliance, and business stakeholders to prioritize investments, establish standards and guardrails, and ensure measurable improvements in control effectiveness, security resilience, and operational efficiency.

This role requires strong technical depth in security engineering and the leadership maturity to operate at the executive level. The Director establishes cybersecurity engineering strategy, multi‑year roadmaps, and success metrics; governs an operating rhythm for delivery and reliability; and ensures outcomes are achieved across multiple teams (often through influence).

• Define and own the cybersecurity engineering strategy and operating model (platform engineering, control implementation, automation, reliability) aligned to business risk, technology priorities, and security architecture.

• Establish and report executive‑level metrics and scorecards (e.g., control adoption, coverage, reliability, vulnerability and misconfiguration reduction, policy compliance, engineering throughput, automation impact) and drive continuous improvement based on outcomes.

• Own the security engineering platform portfolio: select, integrate, and manage lifecycle for security tooling and services (e.g., IAM/PAM, PKI, EDR, CSPM, vulnerability management, secrets management, WAF, DLP, SIEM/SOAR integrations) with clear service models and reliability targets.

• Partner with architecture, engineering, and product teams to embed security into delivery (Dev Sec Ops ): define engineering standards, reusable patterns, and automated guardrails; enable teams with reference implementations and self‑service capabilities.

• Lead engineering execution for prioritized risk‑reduction initiatives: hardening, segmentation, encryption, identity modernization, secure configuration baselines, vulnerability remediation automation, and resilience improvements across hybrid and cloud environments.

• Establish governance for engineering delivery: intake and prioritization, roadmaps, architecture/engineering reviews, change management, and exception processes; ensure solutions are compliant‑by‑design and supported with appropriate documentation and evidence.

• Build and lead high‑performing cybersecurity engineering teams through hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development; establish standards for engineering quality, critical review, and operational discipline.

• Manage cross‑functional stakeholder relationships (Technology leaders, risk/compliance, audit, legal/privacy, and vendors) and translate technical risk and engineering tradeoffs into business impact and investment decisions.

• Ensure security engineering services are reliable and operationally mature: define SLAs/SLOs, partner with SOC/CSIRT during incidents for engineering response and hardening, and drive post‑incident corrective actions into durable platform improvements.

• Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 15+ years of professional experience and 10+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills or equivalent experience.

• 15+ years of progressive cybersecurity/technology experience with demonstrated depth in building and operating security controls and platforms.

• 10+ years leading engineering teams and/or enterprise programs, including setting strategy, defining metrics, managing budgets/vendors, and driving execution across multiple stakeholders.

• Hands‑on and leadership experience engineering security capabilities such as IAM/PAM, network security controls, endpoint security, vulnerability management, encryption/key management, secrets management, and cloud security controls.

• Proven ability to deliver…