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.
Benefits
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
Additional Information
- Candidates must be located in the eastern time zone
- This role will need to be conducted in a state in which we are currently registered to do business.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.
- This position is eligible for equity awards in accordance with the terms of Contentful’s equity plans.
