Security Engineering Manager (Enterprise)

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. They are seeking a committed and driven manager to own security engineering across corporate systems, balancing people leadership with hands-on technical execution.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a team, providing coaching, mentorship, goal setting, and performance feedback
• Define roles and make hiring decisions to grow the team in line with department needs
• Remain hands on, balancing technical leadership with direct implementation work
• Own execution and prioritization across projects and operations, using agile delivery practices
• Scale and mature effectiveness and efficiency by improving processes and tooling
• Champion continuous improvement across all aspects of the security program
• Continuously improve effectiveness and efficiency by evolving processes and tooling
• Communicate risks and technical concepts with clarity to leadership and stakeholders
• Collaborate with security leadership to execute business aligned, risk reduction roadmaps
• Shape work scope, sequencing, and success criteria inline with department and company needs
• Drive security processes, standards, and best practices across information technology assets
• Partner with stakeholders to evolve security awareness and specialized training across all functions
• Mature capabilities across endpoint, SaaS, and cloud configuration
• Own strategy evolution of corporate capabilities, including configuration, IAM, and data security
• Enhance tooling, automation, and integrations to improve visibility and reduce manual effort
• Support and guide security incident response efforts as a technical leader
• Support cross functional vulnerability management while advancing the program capabilities
• Define and maintain metrics to measure impact, optimize execution, and guide investment
• Partner with cross-functional teams for security enhancement and drive risk reduction
• Accelerate adoption of AI, balancing practicality enablement, and risk management
• Stay current on threats, vulnerabilities, and tactics, translating insights into actionable strategies

Requirements:

• 8+ years of progressive engineering and security experience
• 3+ years managing people and security engineering teams
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing strategic thinking, security, and practicality
• Expertise with AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls at scale
• Demonstrated experience securing endpoint, SaaS, and cloud environments
• Experience working within identity and access management and data security programs
• Software development experience in modern programming language (Python, Go, etc)
• Hands-on experience using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience applying modern practices to improve efficiency and scalability or security programs
• Passion for solving complex security problems in innovative and scalable ways
• Experience using metrics to measure impact, optimize execution, and guide investment decisions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics to non technical audiences
• Ability to support occasional off-hours incident response efforts
• Familiarity with attacker techniques in cloud-native and traditional environments
• Hands-on experience owning security technologies (e.g., EDR, AntiVirus, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence outcomes without direct authority
• Experience owning end to end security programs, proactively driving incremental improvement
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design security solutions that scale through efficiency