Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

Job Description

The Commercial Technologies Operational Security Lead is a Director role responsible for ensuring the security resilience and operational integrity of customerfacing technology solutions including software platforms and integrated hardware offerings. This role provides handson leadership and subject matter expertise across vulnerability research security engineering product security and operational assurance for technologies delivered to external customers.

The individual will partner closely with product engineering cloud and commercial technology teams to ensure security controls are designed implemented validated and continuously improved throughout the product lifecycle. This role plays a critical part in enabling secure innovation protecting customer trust and ensuring solutions meet regulatory contractual and risk expectations in a highly regulated environment.

Key Activities

• Provide security oversight and operational assurance for customerfacing software and hardware technology solutions across development deployment and runtime operations.

• Define assess and validate security controls for commercial technology platforms ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards regulatory requirements and customer expectations.

• Lead vulnerability research analysis and operational response across applications platforms infrastructure and embedded technologies.

• Partner with engineering and product teams to integrate security into architecture design and development processes using securebydesign and shiftleft principles.

• Support product security activities including threat modeling secure design reviews penetration testing coordination and remediation validation.

• Provide security architecture guidance for virtualized cloudnative hybrid and containerized environments supporting customer solutions.

• Oversee vulnerability management operations for commercial technologies including scanning prioritization remediation tracking and risk acceptance.

• Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to drive automation of security testing control validation and continuous monitoring.

• Ensure security requirements are embedded into CI/CD pipelines and product release processes.

• Act as a key liaison between commercial technology teams enterprise security risk management and compliance functions.

• Support customer assurance activities including security questionnaires audits attestations and incident response coordination.

• Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis for security events impacting customerfacing technologies.

• Identify gaps emerging risks and improvement opportunities across product and operational security capabilities.

• Promote security best practices standards and operational maturity across commercial technology portfolios.

Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Security or a related field.

• Advanced degree or relevant security certifications preferred.

Required Skills and Experience

Technical Expertise

• Strong experience in vulnerability research vulnerability management operations and remediation validation.

• Handson experience with security engineering and product security for softwarebased and integrated hardware solutions.

• Solid understanding of security architecture principles for cloud virtualized containerized and hybrid environments.

• Experience securing APIs web applications SaaS platforms and distributed systems.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices CI/CD pipelines and security automation tooling.

• Working knowledge of cryptography identity and access management and secure communications.

Operational Security & Product Assurance

• Experience supporting customerfacing technologies where security availability and trust are businesscritical.

• Ability to assess operational risk and translate findings into actionable remediation plans.

• Experience supporting audits customer security reviews and regulatory expectations.

Experience & Leadership

• 10 years of experience in cybersecurity product security security engineering or related technical disciplines.

• Demonstrated ability to operate as a leader influencing outcomes through expertise rather than formal authority.

• Proven ability to work effectively across engineering product cloud and business teams.

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Ability to balance security rigor with business enablement and product delivery timelines.

Preferred Skills and Experience

Certifications

• CISSP CSSLP GWAPT OSCP or equivalent security certifications.

Frameworks and Standards

• Familiarity with NIST ISO 27001 OWASP and secure development lifecycle (SDLC) frameworks.

Cloud & Automation

• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP) and infrastructureascode tooling.

• Experience leveraging automation to scale security controls and operational assurance.

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