VP, Staff Security Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Security Engineer to help lead highly technical projects to improve our Security Engineering function. This individual will be instrumental in designing and building solutions that provide security enablement for critical initiatives such as AI Security or Enterprise Cloud Migration, while providing technical leadership across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Drive 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.
• Foster 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.

Qualifications/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.).
• Prominent 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrate strong conflict management abilities within high-impact initiatives.
• Must be able to self-organize, prioritize, and thrive when able to operate with autonomy.
• Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required.

Desired Characteristics

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA), and/or Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC).
• Certified AWS Certified Security – Specialty and AWS Solutions Architect/Professional.
• Experience developing applications or workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Working proficiency of Artificial Intelligence (AI) related services on Amazon, such as Bedrock or AgentCore.
• Understanding of the impact of emerging business and end-user technologies have on information security requirements and architecture.
• Understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business.
• Proven strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven track record of weighing the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identifying the most appropriate one.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in existing security and IT systems and an ability to keep pace with changing security and IT technologies.
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, verbally and in writing, in an easily understood, and actionable manner.

Benefits

This role plays a critical part in advancing our security initiatives in the public cloud and will have significant remit to influence implementation of core security solutions.

Pay

The salary range for this position is 135,000.00 - 230,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance. Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.

Schedule

Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.