[Remote] Director, Security Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Everforth ECS solves complex cybersecurity and technology challenges for commercial, government, defense, and intelligence customers. The Director of Security Engineering will lead the security engineering team, define security platform strategy and architecture, oversee technology delivery, engage customers, and drive automation, reliability, and continuous improvement across managed cybersecurity services.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing security engineering team
• Define the technical strategy, architecture standards, and roadmap for our security platforms
• Oversee the design, deployment, integration, and lifecycle management of technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, network and cloud security, and security automation
• Identify and implement practical applications of AI across security engineering operations to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate troubleshooting and analysis, automate repeatable workflows, and enhance the scalability of managed services
• Review complex technical designs and serve as the senior escalation point for engineering and customer issues
• Lead engineering efforts for customer onboarding, platform deployments, migrations, service expansions, and modernization initiatives
• Work directly with customers to understand requirements, present architectures, explain technical decisions, and resolve concerns
• Partner with Security Operations, Sales, and the PMO to ensure solutions are delivered successfully and can be effectively operated and supported
• Drive automation, standardization, platform reliability, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors and make recommendations on adoption, modernization, and retirement
• Manage engineering priorities, staffing, hiring, performance, professional development, and delivery risk
• Support solution development, technical proposals, and strategic customer engagements
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, network engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in cybersecurity, IT, network operations, or security operations environments
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architectures, including several of the following: SIEM and security analytics; EDR/XDR and endpoint security; data loss prevention; network and cloud security; Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR); Identity and security integrations; and logging, telemetry, and monitoring systems
• Experience designing, deploying, integrating, or operating security technologies in complex enterprise or multi-customer environments
• Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture practices, and technical roadmaps
• Experience leading major technical implementations, migrations, integrations, or modernization efforts
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across security, network, infrastructure, and cloud environments
• Proven ability to build, mentor, and lead high-performing technical teams
• Strong ability to translate business and operational goals into engineering priorities and execution plans
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, priorities, risks, and customer commitments
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong customer-facing experience with the ability to engage technical leaders, executives, and stakeholders
• Sound technical judgment with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across security, reliability, cost, scalability, and operational impact
• Ability to work remotely
• Preference will be given to applicants who have led large cybersecurity engineering teams at the Director level or above

Benefits

• Remote work

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