Sr. Manager, Security Engineering

Overview

As Security Engineering Manager, you lead a global team protecting cloud-native environments, CI/CD pipelines, and production infrastructure. You provide strategic direction, mentorship, and operational excellence while aligning with modern multi-cloud tech (AWS, Azure, GCP) and secure-by-design practices. You partner with software, DevOps, and product teams to embed security into developer workflows, scale vulnerability programs, and influence product roadmaps. This role offers impact at scale in a fast-growing security startup backed by Google. You help shape secure cloud platforms that empower rapid, safe innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a globally distributed Security Engineering team
• Define technical strategy and architecture for multi-cloud security
• Drive security automation, policy-as-code, and CI/CD integrations
• Govern container & infrastructure hardening across EKS, GKE, AKS
• Oversee vulnerability management and supply chain security
• Coordinate with Detection & Incident Response to scale alerting and remediation
• Foster cross-functional partnerships with Engineering and DevOps leadership

Key requirements

• 2+ years of leadership/mentoring experience in security engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure teams
• 7+ years of security engineering/operations in cloud-native environments
• Strong hands-on security in AWS; working knowledge of Azure or GCP
• Deep Kubernetes and container security knowledge (EKS/GKE/AKS)
• In-depth cloud IAM understanding at enterprise scale
• Hands-on IaC experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Pulumi) and scripting (Python, Go, Shell)

• leadership and people development
• cross-functional collaboration
• communication of security concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Cloud security (AWS, multi-cloud); Kubernetes security (EKS/GKE/AKS)
• IAM security and access management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, Pulumi)

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