Senior Manager, Enterprise Security

About the role

The Senior Manager of Enterprise Security at True Anomaly leads a team responsible for securing the foundational elements that enable the company to execute its mission. The role involves setting strategic direction, mentoring a team of security engineers, and fostering a high-performance culture.

Responsibilities

• Hire, coach, mentor, and grow a team of enterprise security, vulnerability management, and Linux security engineers.
• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development and growth planning for direct reports.
• Foster a collaborative, high-ownership team culture that thrives under fast-paced, high-stakes conditions.
• Manage on-call rotations and ensure the team is prepared to respond effectively during active security incidents.
• Define and drive the enterprise security roadmap across workstations, servers, cloud environments, and the Linux fleet.
• Own the maturity and effectiveness of the vulnerability management program, including SLA adherence and risk-based prioritization.
• Set direction for Operational technology (OT) security, enterprise identity, access management, and configuration management strategy, including Linux-specific identity and hardening initiatives.
• Proactively identify gaps across the security program and prioritize resourcing to close them.
• Partner with IT, DevOps, engineering, and manufacturing/OT stakeholders to embed security into the system development lifecycle and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
• Represent the Enterprise Security team in change management and change review board processes, ensuring risks are identified and communicated.
• Communicate security posture, metrics, and risk to technical and executive audiences.
• Provide technical guidance and review for major initiatives such as centralized identity architecture, security hardening baselines (CIS/STIG), SIEM/detection strategy, and cloud security posture management.
• Stay current with the evolving threat landscape and emerging security tooling to inform team priorities.
• Support compliance efforts (e.g. CMMC, NIST) by ensuring the team produces necessary evidence and documentation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience directly managing security engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• 7+ years of total experience in information security or a related technical field, including significant time as a hands-on individual contributor.
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing one or more of the following: enterprise security programs, vulnerability management programs, Operational technology (OT) security, or Linux/enterprise identity security.
• Strong technical understanding of enterprise and cloud technologies (on-prem and SaaS), common vulnerabilities and attack vectors, and security tooling such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, MDM, and endpoint protection.
• Working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Rust).
• Prominent ability to translate business priorities into technical security strategy and communicate that strategy across all levels of an organization.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience leading teams through active security incidents and on-call operations.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalents are a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience managing teams in a startup, Series C through E, or similarly high-growth environment.
• Active security clearance or defense industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience securing manufacturing or operational technology (OT) environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code paradims, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD.
• Familiarity with CMMC, and NIST frameworks.
• Experience with Linux security architecture, configuration management at scale, or privileged access management tooling.
• Experience building or scaling a vulnerability management function.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and clearance level.
• Opportunity to drive security posture for cutting-edge space systems with national security impact.
• Professional development support including conferences, training, and security certifications.
• Collaborative culture working alongside spacecraft engineers, mission operators, and experienced security professionals.
• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave.