VP, Staff Security Engineer

Role Overview

• 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.

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, and strategic priorities, while leading complex initiatives
• Must be able to self-organize, prioritize, and thrives when able to operate with autonomy
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance