Lead Engineer on the Security Architecture team

We are seeking a Lead Engineer on the Security Architecture team to collaborate with technical and leadership teams across Target Tech to ensure that systems are designed and built securely.

The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of security risks, controls, mitigations, and standards to a collaborative and advisory role, helping the rest of the enterprise as new platforms and systems are built, and as existing ones are modified over time.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with system designers to integrate security requirements into the design phase of IT systems
• Develop and maintain security architecture documentation, including security models, frameworks, and diagrams
• Ensure that security architecture aligns with the organisation's business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Understand security risks in order to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats
• Develop risk mitigation strategies and recommend appropriate security controls
• Design and implement security solutions, including firewalls, encryption protocols, and access control mechanisms
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure secure creation and deployment of IT systems
• Provide guidance on secure coding practices
• Prioritize driving highly impactful changes that improve the business
• Conduct full-stack architecture reviews of products and platforms
• Provide expertise on information security for complex systems and applications in cloud and on-prem environments
• Design security reference architectures and create implementation/configuration guides
• Provide expertise on creation and implementation of security controls with an emphasis on cloud technologies
• Efficiently assess and communicate risk accurately while negotiating priorities with cross-domain stakeholders
• Collaborate with engineering teams to perform advanced security analysis on complex cloud systems, identifying gaps while contributing to design solutions and security requirements

Requirements:

• 4-year degree OR equivalent experience
• Polyglot programmer comfortable in many languages across different platforms
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with extensive knowledge of cybersecurity domains including Information Protection, AI Security and/or Cloud Security (GCP strongly preferred)
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn
• Expertise in containerization technologies and tools
• Solid understanding of genAI/ML
• Understanding of prompt injection and its various styles (direct, indirect, RAG poisoning, etc.) / Familiarity with OWSAP top ten for LLMs
• Understanding of MCP auth patterns including dynamic client registration
• Knowledge in RAG authorization patterns
• Experience mitigating the security risks of local coding agents.
• Seeks out cross-team collaboration opportunities
• Stays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities
• Proven history of effectively utilizing a variety of security tools and technologies across diverse environments.
• Good understanding of security management workflows in large enterprise organisations and complex environments
• Has a good understanding of the current threat landscape and the challenges that most organisations are facing
• Knowledge of security frameworks, standards, and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO/IEC 27001)
• Strong understanding of network security, cryptography, and secure software development
• Experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and DLP
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

• GCP native security product experience (VPC Service Controls, Organization constraints, Cloud Armor, NextGen Firewall etc.)
• Experience with Google SCC or Wiz is a plus
• Vertex AI experience
• AWS or Azure experience

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation