Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

USAA Life Insurance Company; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA is seeking a Director, Cybersecurity Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for the technology foundation of the Cyber Threat Operations Center (CTOC). You will own strategy, delivery, modernization, and lifecycle of security platforms, infrastructure, applications, integrations, and automation supporting Endpoint Protection, Vulnerability Management, SIEM, SOAR, and SSPM.

This role can be based in San Antonio, TX with a flexible, hybrid schedule requiring four days in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems/Management, or related field; OR 4 years of relevant education an

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cybersecurity Engineering organization, engineering strategy, and multi‑year technology roadmap responsible for CTOC platforms, infrastructure, applications, and integrations.
• Ensure reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of critical cybersecurity platforms by establishing engineering standards and lifecycle practices.
• Partner with Cyber Threat Operations to translate operational requirements into engineering capabilities to prevent, detect, investigate, contain, and respond to threats.
• Lead evolution toward next‑generation security operations including AI Security and CTEM with governance and oversight.
• Own strategic security domains, develop roadmaps, and govern policies and procedures for assigned domains.
• Direct enterprise information security domain operations including capacity and resilience, reporting risk management to senior leadership.
• Develop, communicate, and enforce information security risk management policies with the CISO.
• Interface with regulators to represent USAA on information security matters.
• Oversee continuous monitoring of cybersecurity activities and report risks to senior management.
• Design and deliver governance and assurance models across multiple domains and the Enterprise.
• Identify and evaluate solutions to reduce information security risk and improve efficiency.
• Promote information security awareness across the enterprise and with external security community.
• Serve as financial steward and manage budgets to meet organizational needs.
• Build and oversee a team through recruiting, development, and performance management.
• Ensure risks are identified, monitored, and controlled per policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security

Job description

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active‑duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active‑duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

As Director, Cybersecurity Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the technology foundation that enables USAA's Cyber Threat Operations Center (CTOC). You will be accountable for the strategy, engineering, delivery, modernization, reliability, and lifecycle of critical cybersecurity platforms, infrastructure, applications, integrations, and automation supporting Endpoint Protection, Vulnerability Management, ASPM, SIEM, SOAR, and SSPM. You will also help shape the next generation of cyber defense through AI Security, Agentic SOC, Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), and increased automation of security operations.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in San Antonio, TX location. Relocation assistance is available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Lead the Cybersecurity Engineering organization, engineering strategy, and multi‑year technology roadmap responsible for the platforms, infrastructure, applications, and integrations that enable USAA's Cyber Threat Operations Center (CTOC).
• Ensure the reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of critical cybersecurity platforms by establishing engineering standards, platform health metrics, lifecycle practices, capacity management, and operational readiness expectations.
• Partner closely with Cyber Threat Operations to translate operational and threat‑defense requirements into engineering capabilities, ensuring technology investments improve USAA's ability to prevent, detect, investigate, contain, and respond to cyber threats.
• Lead the engineering evolution toward next‑generation security operations, including AI Security, AI‑assisted cyber operations, Agentic SOC capabilities, and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), with appropriate security, governance, architecture, and human oversight.
• Responsible for strategic ownership of critical security domains or capabilities, develops multi‑year roadmaps and/or a leader of Manager Seniors.
• Establishes and ensures compliant execution of their information security domain's short‑and long‑term strategic vision, strategy, goals, and metrics and governs the overall policies, standards, and procedures for their assigned information security domain.
• Directs and ensures effective operation of an enterprise information security domain including capacity, resilience and dependability capabilities and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect the system's operation.
• Develops, reviews and communicates information security risk management policies and procedures in partnership with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and other senior leaders to ensure appropriateness and adequacy versus industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Interfaces with external regulators to represent USAA in discussions regarding their specific information security domain.
• Oversees the continuous monitoring of cybersecurity activities and alerts senior management to potential risks, compliance issues, and operational inefficiencies.
• Develops, designs, and delivers a sustainable governance and assurance model across multiple domains and the Enterprise.
• Identifies, monitors and evaluates operational solutions to reduce information security risk, meet compliance requirements and increase enterprise workforce efficiency, business agility and workforce scalability.
• Promotes information security awareness across the enterprise and with the external security community.
• Serves as financial steward for the organization and manages manpower and budgets to ensure they cost‑effectively meet the needs of the organization.
• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, coaching and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems/Management, or related field; OR 4 years of relevant education an