Engineering Lead, Security Operations

At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As an Engineering Lead for the Security Operations team, you will refine our security roadmap, drive operational excellence in vulnerability management and incident response, create technology strategy for security automation, and use your influence to facilitate judgment and critical thinking in decision making across your organization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Refine our security roadmap
• Drive operational excellence in vulnerability management and incident response
• Create technology strategy for security automation
• Facilitate judgment and critical thinking in decision making

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Core competencies include:

• 8+ years of technical experience including full-time security engineering or software engineering, with 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager
• Experience leading distributed teams, working cross-functionally across varying time zones
• Deep understanding of security fundamentals including vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and secure coding practices
• Ability to provide technical guidance while managing people and processes

Technical skills include:

• Extensive knowledge across multiple security domains (vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, application security) with deep expertise in at least one area
• Ability to apply expertise and analytical skills to independently solve complex security problems, influencing solutions across your team and multiple functions

Complexity and impact of work include:

• Taking ownership of complex security challenges, selecting the best methods and approaches with minimal oversight
• Leading and significantly contributing to large, cross-functional security projects, driving execution and impact across multiple teams
• Breaking down large-scale security initiatives into manageable tasks, proactively assessing trade-offs and priorities independently

Organizational knowledge includes:

• Monitoring security industry trends and internal objectives to inform team and department-level goal-setting and decision-making
• Understanding and proactively communicating how security work drives Anchorage's long-term growth and competitive advantage

Communication and influence include:

• Mentoring mid to experienced teammates and helping them align their efforts with department goals and company strategy
• Demonstrating strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, proactively improving collaboration and fostering a culture of shared learning

Team leadership includes:

• Managing individual contributors and may managing leads or other managers
• Defining team direction and priorities in collaboration with department leadership and clearly communicating department and team strategy to team members

You may be a fit for this role if you have:

• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed security engineering team
• Real-world experience building and maintaining security infrastructure, monitoring systems, and automation tools
• Deep understanding of security fundamentals: vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, application security