Senior Security Engineer

Job title: Senior Security Engineer

About the Role The Senior Security Engineer is accountable for designing, implementing, and governing a resilient security posture across enterprise environments, including on-premises, hybrid, and cloud platforms. The role ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational systems and data through strong security architecture, operational controls, and risk-based decision making. This position provides senior-level technical leadership across security domains, including identity and access management, network and platform security, encryption, logging, and system hardening. The engineer establishes and enforces security standards, reviews architectures, and drives consistent security implementation across global environments. The Senior Security Engineer leads and oversees security risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and penetration testing activities, translating findings into prioritized remediation plans aligned to business risk and operational impact. They deploy and manage cloud-native and enterprise security tools to monitor, detect, and remediate threats in a complex, global environment. The role is responsible for maintaining alignment with applicable regulatory and industry frameworks, supporting audits, and maintaining defensible technical documentation and evidence. Close collaboration with application, data, and infrastructure teams is required to embed security controls into system design, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes, promoting secure-by-design and automation-first practices. As a senior practitioner, the engineer evaluates emerging technologies, threat trends, and architectural patterns, recommending improvements to security controls and operating models. They influence security strategy, contribute to roadmap planning, and mentor less experienced engineers to ensure the organization maintains a scalable, compliant, and resilient security capability.

What You'll Do

• Strengthen the organization’s global security posture by designing and implementing security controls across enterprise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Play a pivotal role in the design, deployment, and maintenance of security tools and solutions that enhance cybersecurity operations worldwide.
• Conduct and oversee vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and technical risk evaluations, ensuring findings are prioritized and remediated.
• Perform technical security assessments and audits to ensure compliance with organizational policies and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including applications, data, and infrastructure to seamlessly integrate security requirements into architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes, embedding security at every level.
• Stay abreast of emerging global cloud security threats, technologies, and compliance frameworks to provide valuable recommendations for continuously improving the organization’s cloud security posture.
• Undertake other cloud and information security activities as needed to further enhance cybersecurity resilience across global operations.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
• Required certifications (one or more): CISSP, GCLD, GPCS, GCPN, AZ-500, CCSP, CISM.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or a related role, with a strong understanding of security principles, practices, and technologies including:
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing security controls across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security platforms and services.
• Experience conducting security assessments, architecture reviews, vulnerability management, and penetration testing.
• Experience supporting audits and compliance efforts against frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, or SOC 2.
• Strong experience collaborating with applications, infrastructure, and data teams.
• Proficiency with PKI, multifactor authentication, and enterprise identity services.
• Working knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols.

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree in a relevant field.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range and benefits not disclosed in the posting.