Engineering Lead, Security Operations
Leads Security Operations engineering team, driving hiring, mentoring, roadmap refinement, and excellence in vulnerability management and incident response. Requires 8+ years technical experience with 3+ years leadership in distributed teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Hire and manage distributed security engineering teams, including resource planning and end-to-end hiring.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering high-performance and inclusive culture.
- Drive security roadmap, technology strategy for automation, and cross-functional projects.
- Lead vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and secure coding practices.
- Influence decision-making, communicate complex ideas, and align with organizational goals.
Requirements
Core Competencies
- 8+ years technical experience in security or software engineering, with 3+ years leadership as people manager.
- Experience leading distributed teams across time zones.
- Deep security knowledge: vulnerability management, incident response, monitoring, secure coding.
- Player-coach with technical guidance skills.
Technical Skills
- Expertise in security domains like vulnerability management and incident response.
- Solve complex security problems and contribute to strategies.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building security infrastructure, monitoring systems, automation.
- Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash.
- SIEM tools, security scanning platforms.
- Computer science fundamentals (concurrency, algorithms, data structures).
- Applied cryptography, OWASP/NIST/ISO27001/SOC 2, regulated environments.
Skills
Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Security Monitoring, Secure Coding, Python, Go, SIEM, Security Scanning, Cloud Security, Network Security
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