Senior Manager, Security Engineering

Arctic Wolf is a leader in the cybersecurity industry, dedicated to ending cyber risk. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Security Engineering to oversee the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of security engineering functions while ensuring the organization scales securely and supports business growth.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Organizational Leadership: Lead one or more Security Engineering teams through managers, team leads, and individual contributors. Establish vision, priorities, operating rhythms, and accountability mechanisms
• Build and Develop Leaders: Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing managers and engineers. Create succession plans and establish clear career growth opportunities across the organization
• Develop Security Engineering Strategy: Define and execute multi-year roadmaps aligned to enterprise security objectives, business priorities, technology strategy, and regulatory requirements
• Financial Stewardship: Participate in budget planning, resource allocation, vendor management, and investment prioritization activities
• Drive Security Platform Evolution: Oversee the design, implementation, and operation of enterprise security platforms supporting identity, cloud, application, endpoint, data protection, and security operations capabilities
• Technical Governance and Architecture: Provide strategic oversight for system architecture, platform integrations, security design standards, and engineering best practices
• Engineering-Driven Security: Champion automation and platform-based security controls that reduce manual effort and improve security outcomes at scale
• Vendor and Technology Strategy: Evaluate emerging technologies, manage strategic vendor relationships, and guide build-versus-buy decisions
• Lead Large-Scale Initiatives: Direct complex cross-functional programs involving multiple engineering teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors
• Operational Excellence: Establish service ownership practices, reliability objectives, KPIs, reporting mechanisms, and continuous improvement programs
• Risk Management and Compliance Enablement: Ensure technical controls effectively support regulatory, customer, and internal security requirements
• Executive Partnership: Communicate strategy, risk, progress, and investment needs to senior leadership and executive stakeholders

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production systems at scale
• Prior experience in Security Engineering or closely related engineering disciplines
• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex technical initiatives
• Strong experience with coding, system integration, and automation
• Experience evaluating and implementing enterprise security technologies
• Experience leading Identity, Cloud Security, Application Security, Platform Security, or Security Systems Engineering organizations
• Experience supporting rapidly growing SaaS or cloud-native technology companies
• Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams
• Deep understanding of modern security frameworks including NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and Zero Trust architectures
• Experience managing security platform budgets and vendor portfolios
• Advanced security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, or equivalent)
• Experience building security capabilities that support AI, data governance, and cloud transformation initiatives