Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Purpose

The Cybersecurity Engineering Director leads a team that builds, deploys, and maintains security controls within a highly regulated mission critical environment. The Director leads a highly performing, results-oriented, service delivery team that adheres to the highest standards of change control and quality assurance to ensure the successful adoption of security controls across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead in the design, planning, and implementation of information security solutions
• Tune and design systems infrastructure for security and enhancements
• Automation of manual tasks using scripting and application development
• Investigate and adopt new security technologies/tools as needs arise
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new security controls, settings and security tools
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Provide support to, and coordinate with, developers, operations staff, release engineers, Incident Response, GRC, Red Team, and other disciplines
• Educate and mentor team members and operations staff
• Manage the on-call rotation for after-hours support
• Lead projects to completion, help establish runbooks, documentation, and training for other team members
• Build a team culture that can endure and thrive under pressure

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ Management experience
• Degree in engineering discipline or equivalent experience required
• 7+ years of relevant Engineering or Information Security experience
• Top-tier analytics and problem solving
• Ability to work in a service-oriented team environment
• Must have good people skills, organization, time management, and project management skills
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business resources
• Experience implementing change in mission critical environments where availability and security is paramount.
• Proficiency in physical, cloud, and containerized environments.
• An unwavering passion for and interest in Cybersecurity