Manager, Advanced Threat Detection and Research

Job Overview

Engineering Manager – Threat Detection Engineering & Threat Research Teams

HPE Threat Labs seeks an experienced engineering manager to lead the threat detection engineering team and the threat research team, ensuring both technical innovation and operational excellence.

• Wear dual hats: oversee software engineering projects to implement threat detection technologies on HPE’s Advanced Threat Prevention Cloud and on the SRX Next Gen firewall.
• Lead the threat research team in delivering industry‑leading research into wild threats, building actionable threat intelligence for HPE security products, prototyping detection methods, and publishing thought leadership through blogs, conference presentations, and other public materials.
• Manage headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring alignment with program and organizational roadmaps.
• Engage with program managers, marketing, supply chain, technical leaders and executives to communicate status, resolve issues, and influence strategic decisions.
• Maintain relationships with outsourced partners and suppliers, setting expectations on deliverables, quality, schedules, and costs.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction.
• Handle people‑care management for direct reports: hiring, performance planning, coaching, career development, and fostering performance standards across the organization.
• Participate in live and recorded broadcasts and media interviews, showcasing HPE’s threat initiatives.

• First level university degree or equivalent experience.
• Advanced university degree preferred.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience, including 5+ years of people‑management experience.

• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing cybersecurity solutions.
• Deep knowledge of the threat landscape and detection techniques.
• Experience designing and implementing threat detection methods.
• History of publishing cybersecurity blogs.
• Ability to drive threat research toward actionable security outcomes.
• Creative thinking and initiative to advance HPE Threat Labs goals.
• Advanced leadership, coaching, teambuilding, conflict resolution.
• Advanced project management: time, risk, resource prioritization, and structuring.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience managing global human capital for workforce development.
• Strong communication across diverse audiences; mastery of English.
• Superior business acumen, technical knowledge across units.
• Advanced multitasking and prioritization.
• Relationship management, partnering, consulting.
• Comprehensive understanding of company policies and processes.

• Accountability
• Action Planning
• Active Learning
• Active Listening
• Agile Methodology
• Agile Scrum Development
• Analytical Thinking
• Bias Awareness
• Coaching
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Cross‑Functional Teamwork
• Data Analysis Management
• Data Collection Management
• Data Controls
• Design
• Design Thinking
• Empathy
• Follow‑Through
• Group Problem Solving
• Growth Mindset
• Intellectual Curiosity
• Long Term Planning
• Managing Ambiguity
• Plus 5 additional specialized skills.

Comprehensive benefits support physical, financial, and emotional well‑being for employees and their loved ones.

Specific programs help employees achieve any career goals, including becoming domain experts or transitioning to other divisions.

Inclusive culture values diverse backgrounds, offers flexibility, and encourages bold moves together for common good.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category. All decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories.