Sr Dir, Security Engineer
Sr Dir, Security Engineer
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$ 228270 - 342406
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Job Description
At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.
Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.
JOB SUMMARY: Senior Director of Security Engineering will define and oversee the strategic vision for the enterprise security engineering program ensuring the confidentiality integrity and availability of the companys services systems and data. Key responsibilities include strategic planning enhancing operational efficiency providing technical leadership overseeing team management and development and facilitating effective communication. The Senior Director of Security Engineering will collaborate closely with Engineering Product and Operations teams to secure enable and scale the companys corporate systems and network enterprise applications and data. This is a highlevel management position that plays a critical role in shaping the companys security posture and future growth.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Define and implement the strategic vision and objectives for the engineering department in alignment with the organizations overall strategy.
- Lead mentor and scale a highperformance engineering team fostering a culture of collaboration technical innovation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams such as Product Management Technology and other key business departments ensuring alignment on project objectives and seamless execution align to the SecureF5 mission.
- Provide technical leadership in software development vulnerability management automation and engineering practices. Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and methodologies.
- Lead the design and implementation of a secure infrastructure at scale. Champion the adoption of bestinclass security practices across all engineering functions.
- Direct initiatives to build and/or implement tool solutions that enhance the organizations security posture. Ensure these tools are integrated effectively into existing systems and processes.
- Provide daytoday leadership to technical operational professional and administrative personnel engaged in engineering and information security activities. Encourage a culture of security innovation collaboration and high performance.
- Offer strategic advice and recommendations in the development implementation and evaluation of new products and services.
- Develop and manage the departmental budget effectively aligning resource allocation with strategic priorities.
- Provide strategic advice and recommendations in the development implementation and evaluation of new products and services.
- Design and drive implementation of secure infrastructure at scale
- Lead work program to build and/or implement tools that aid in enhancing the security posture of F5s infrastructure and services.
- Employee management including but not limited to sourcing interviewing and hiring candidates for open positions onboarding establishing goals assigning or delegating work providing onthejob training giving guidance to staff conducting performance evaluations approving paid timeoff (PTO) developing performance improvement plans and taking disciplinary action.
- Management of security technologies to support F5 security posture and adherence to information security requirements
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Advanced knowledge in software engineering architecture principles coding debugging and testing techniques.
- Advanced experience leading and scaling an engineering team. Strong people management and teambuilding skills.
- Proven ability to develop and execute a strategic vision for the engineering department.
- Strong working experience with administration of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Microsoft Azure or equivalent public cloud infrastructure.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Strong working knowledge of modern software engineering practices such as Agile DevOps CI/CD microservices and cloud computing.
- Strong ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including CISO other directors and external vendors.
- Passionate about security in both personal and business contexts and excels at highly detailoriented projects and managing a team.
- Strong knowledge of technologies including network server desktop storage and how security relates to the overall cloud environment.
- Proven ability to execute programmatic objectives on time and within budget.
- Demonstrated ability in mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to professional personnel on matters concerning information security
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individuals and constituencies in a diverse community.
- Advanced analytical evaluative and objective critical thinking skills.
- Strong experience with tools such as SCA SAST DAST and DevOps tooling
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 10 years of relevant security experience
- 7 years leading or managing a technical security team
- Advanced industry certification in relevant field (e.g. CISM CISSP CISA).
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Duties are performed in a normal office environment while sitting at a desk or computer table. Duties require the ability to utilize a computer communicate over the telephone and read printed material.
- Duties may require working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be allinclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
The annual base pay for this position is: $228270.00 $342406.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.
You may also be offered incentive compensation bonus restricted stock units and benefits. More details about F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age sensory physical or mental disability marital status veteran or military status genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable local state or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment including but not limited to hiring job assignment compensation promotion benefits training discipline and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
