Senior Staff Operations Engineer - Cybersecurity
$120,000–$260,000 year
On-siteSeattle, Washington, United States or Palo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Monitor security gaps, initiative delays, and compliance risks while driving resolutions and creating state-of-union visuals for engineering teams. Develop standards for reporting tool effectiveness and resilience, then lead discussions on security best practices with stakeholders and leadership. Manage a portfolio of initiatives covering compliance, engineering excellence, and vendor engagement by coordinating project activities across multiple departments. Organize operational best practices documentation for security solutions protecting endpoints, cloud, identity, and network platforms. Identify security risks and present implementable solutions or alternatives, ensuring proper detection event notifications and documentation align with CSIRT, GRC, and partner teams.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years in an engineering focused role
- 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers
- 4+ years in a senior role influencing company direction
- Experience applying engineering to meet or exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOX, ...)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or equivalent education with work experience
- Third party certifications on engineering related technologies
- Infrastructure technologies knowledge in a hybrid cloud environment such including Containerization, VMs, CI/CD pipeline, IaC
- Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows
- Knowledge of industry-standard security control frameworks including PCI, SOX, NYDFS
- Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale
- Experience communicating and presentating to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders
- Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills
- Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills
- Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status
- Experience with continuous delivery
- Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams
- Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Desired Qualifications
- Extensive experience in engineering and solution delivery in a dynamic service provider environment
- Experience working with runtime protection services, detective and protective agents and/or daemon sets, vulnerability and application scanning
- Experience in a tech industry
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