Director, Security Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Connecticut, +6 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee the security engineering practice across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and additional security platforms.

• Facilitate operational and strategic planning, promote innovation, and distribute resources throughout MSS and AFC portfolios.

• Take ownership of technical direction and quality for MDR, co-managed SIEM, data engineering, and Tier 1 engineering-triage services.

• Establish platform architecture, detection engineering standards, data-pipeline design, and SOAR orchestration.

• Enhance processes, documentation, detection content, continuous improvement metrics, efficiency, and adherence to SLOs.

• Manage practice operations, offer management, and sales enablement; collaborate on scoping, proposals, and offer development.

• Lead high-priority projects and uphold quality standards.

• Implement security protocols, change management, standards, and service provision policies and procedures.

• Act as the executive escalation point for platform and service delivery issues.

• Oversee service efficiency, value, quality, cost improvements, outcomes, and client satisfaction.

• Handle purchasing input, budgeting, and vendor/tooling decisions.

• Supervise staffing, recruitment, oversight, scheduling, development, assessment, discipline, appraisals, training, and performance management.

• Monitor evolving risks, platform capabilities, and vendor roadmaps.

• Represent Optiv to clients, partners, and industry peers.

• Maintain communication with executives, group leaders, and clients during stewardship calls and escalations.

• Lead through Senior Managers and Managers; oversee staffing, recruitment, development, performance management, budgeting, and disciplinary actions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university in a relevant field, or equivalent work experience.

• Master's Degree in a related discipline is preferred.

• Advanced security and/or leadership certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM) are preferred.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in information security and professional/managed services is required.

• Proven leadership in security engineering, SOC platform, or MSS delivery teams, including managing people, is required.

• Extensive information security and platform engineering experience across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, Wiz, and Cribl is required.

• Experience in practice management, offer/sales enablement, and executing managed security services engagements is required.

• Experience in scaling operations through security automation and orchestration technologies is preferred.

• Must be available for scheduled and on-call/after-hours support, maintenance windows, and escalations, 24/7/365.

• Occasional travel, generally less than 15%, may be necessary.

• Proficient in reading, analyzing, and interpreting technical documentation, statements of work, and service-level reporting.

• Capable of writing clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and executive-level communications.

• Skilled in presenting technical and service information to both technical staff and non-technical client stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Inclusive Employee Resource Groups.

• Work/life balance.

• Access to professional training resources.

• Opportunities for creative problem-solving and tackling unique, complex projects.

• Volunteer opportunities through “Optiv Chips In.”

• Necessary equipment and technology to work efficiently remotely or from home (where applicable).