GSOC Security Engineering Lead

About the role

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering architecture, availability, performance, resilience, scalability and cost efficiency of the GSOC (Global Security Operations Center) technology estate; contribute to the platform strategy and translate it into a deliverable, prioritized technical roadmap
• Set and deliver the automation, orchestration, integration and content-as-code roadmap; drive DevOps maturity through CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, observability and release engineering, with measurable reduction in manual analyst effort and mean time to detect and respond
• Lead the design, evaluation and productionization of AI and agentic capabilities across detection, triage, investigation, enrichment and response
• Run a structured innovation pipeline from horizon scanning through proof-of-value to controlled adoption; partner with vendors, the wider GISG innovation community and KPMG member firms to test emerging capability, evidence benefit, and transition proven solutions into production or retire them decisively
• Establish and enforce design, build, testing, release, secure development, AI-usage and documentation standards; approve production readiness, own technical debt and risk remediation, and ensure the estate is auditable and evidence-ready for internal audit, regulatory and client assurance
• Lead, resource, coach and develop the global engineering team; own objectives, performance, career development, succession pipeline and engagement, and build the DevOps, cloud, data and AI engineering skills required for the future service
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of recent experience in security operations engineering, with proven success leading an engineering team in a 24x7 security operations center or managed security service
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a related discipline such as computer science or information technology is required with minimum ten years of equivalent professional experience; certifications requirements