Director, Cybersecurity Engineering & AI Defense

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

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