Principal Security Engineer

About the role

The Principal Security Engineer sets the technical strategy for the overall architecture, roadmap, and framework used in the security solutions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Patterson’s information assets and systems. This role represents the highest level of expertise across multiple domains of information security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic security consultant for both internal and external systems, designing solutions, evaluating vendor products, developing business cases, and ensuring alignment with the organization's security architecture.
• Leads engineers in implementing, deploying, and transitioning solutions into production while overseeing the overall security architecture lifecycle.
• Champions the design, development, and establishment of information security architecture standards and patterns for security solutions, while ensuring thorough documentation.
• Effectively communicates complex security architectural concepts and principles to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Lead and implement a comprehensive data protection strategy, technology platform, and compliance roadmap that aligns with current goals and objectives, while integrating the existing IT Infrastructure and Security roadmap.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize performance, cost-effectiveness, and operational efficiency of our cloud environments and security technology portfolio.
• Advise key stakeholders and drive the translation of complex business requirements into robust, security-first designs for Azure and multiple-cloud solutions.
• Ensure alignment with a well-architected framework while balancing security, performance, and business objectives.
• Through collaboration with the Enterprise Architecture and IT Infrastructure teams, design and document detailed Azure security architectures utilizing services like compute, storage, networking, databases, and application services.
• Provide escalated support for Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Azure issues, serving as a liaison for problem management between the functional team and Microsoft for security-related issues.
• Product and technical ownership of data protection solutions such as Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management, Information Protection, and other Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
• Oversight of sensitive data cataloging, classification, and labeling strategies.
• Partner with IT Risk & Compliance and Regulatory Compliance to design, implement, and maintain an enterprise Data Protection Matrix, establishing standardized security patterns for sensitive data.
• Conduct security design reviews for data protection initiatives, document findings, and drive action-item closure to reduce risk and align implementations to enterprise security standards.
• Actively participate in architectural review boards, working groups, committees, and other oversight and governance forums as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree with an emphasis in security, technology, or engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 8 years of work experience in information technology, cyber security, or information security with a minimum of 6 years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles.
• Deep understanding of Azure cloud architecture principles, networking concepts, Data Platforms, MS Fabric, and security best practices, as well as IT infrastructure management.
• Proven and demonstrable experience in the deployment and implementation of the Microsoft E5 advanced security and compliance suite, such as Purview and the Microsoft Defender solutions.
• Proficiency in automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Azure CLI).
• Security industry certification.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications:
• Preferred Qualifications:

The compensation range for this role is $120,000 - $180,000. The potential compensation range for this role is $123,200.00 - $164,333.33.