DIRECTOR OF SECURITY ENGINEERING (REMOTE)

Compass Group USA; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Life Insurance/ AD

Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Holiday Time Off

Job summary

Compass Group USA is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to own strategy and execution across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering. You’ll lead a multi-team organization, set roadmaps, and align security tooling and telemetry with business needs in a remote-capable, national role.

You will partner with IT, security, and business teams, drive vendors, and report metrics to the CISO Office.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across cybersecurity and information technology, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years leading managers or senior technical leads.
• Proven experience building or maturing enterprise-scale security engineering functions across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering.
• Deep, current experience designing, implementing, and securing cloud infrastructure in one major platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with working knowledge of a second.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and industry standards (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS).
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise security tooling, including SIEM, EDR, and web content filtering strategy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, prioritize initiatives, and lead through ambiguity in a decentralized organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Security Engineering organization (Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, and Detection Engineering) through managers and individual contributors, setting organizational, team, and individual goals aligned to security objectives.
• Recruit, develop, and retain technical talent: build clear career paths, mentor managers and engineers, and conduct performance appraisals.
• Own the multi-year security engineering roadmap, shaping capabilities, methods, and investment priorities.
• Own the security vendor portfolio: tool consolidation and rationalization, procurement, renewals, licensing and budget alignment, support escalations, roadmap influence, and quarterly business reviews.
• Partner across IT, infrastructure, application, and sector technology teams to advance security engineering projects.
• Present posture and metrics to the CISO Office and senior technology leadership; serve as executive-level subject matter expert on security engineering, cloud-native controls, and defensive engineering.
• Direct the design, deployment, and operation of security visibility and control mechanisms across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Own the technical direction and operational health, availability, coverage, performance, and patch management of the endpoint, network security, and vulnerability management platform stack.
• Own SIEM, SOAR, and security telemetry platform strategy: log source prioritization, ingestion optimization and filtering, consumption management, and platform health and efficiency.
• Mature detection engineering as a discipline: use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, version-controlled testing, tuning, and coverage measurement.
• Drive event prioritization and cross-tool correlation to reduce false positives, with Incident Management.
• Direct and advance automation development supporting incident management and other security capabilities, ensuring health and outcomes of workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Security engineering

Cloud security

Detection engineering

Vendor management

Communication

Project management

Education

CISSP

CCSP

CISA

CISM

GCIA

GCIH

Cloud security credentials

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Web content filtering

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DIRECTOR OF SECURITY ENGINEERING (REMOTE)

Sep 15, 2026

Job Summary

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Cybersecurity within Compass Group North America, the Director of Security Engineering owns the strategy, leadership, and execution of Compass Group’s security engineering functions across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering. Leading a multi-team organization, the Director sets the technical roadmap for security controls across cloud environments and the security tooling and infrastructure underpinning our security operations.

The role owns the health and effectiveness of our security tooling, the detection engineering function that turns telemetry into high-fidelity, actionable signals, and the cloud security capabilities that deploy and maintain controls across our multi-cloud footprint. It is highly collaborative, partnering closely with the Incident Management, Identity Management, Exposure Management, Security Architecture, and Security Administration teams within the CISO Office, and with technology teams across Compass Group North America.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the Security Engineering organization (Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, and Detection Engineering) through managers and individual contributors, setting organizational, team, and individual goals aligned to security objectives.
• Recruit, develop, and retain technical talent: build clear career paths, mentor managers and engineers, and conduct performance appraisals.
• Own the multi-year security engineering roadmap, shaping capabilities, methods, and investment priorities.
• Own the security vendor portfolio: tool consolidation and rationalization, procurement, renewals, licensing and budget alignment, support escalations, roadmap influence, and quarterly business reviews. Hold vendors and tools accountable to measurable outcomes and manage tool lifecycle end to end.
• Partner across IT, infrastructure, application, and sector technology teams to advance security engineering projects, and lead or support initiatives sponsored by security, technology, and business teams.
• Present posture and metrics to the CISO Office and senior technology leadership; serve as executive-level subject matter expert on security engineering, cloud-native controls, and defensive engineering.
• Direct the design, deployment, and operation of security visibility and control mechanisms across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including validating adherence through regular monitoring and audits.
• Own the technical direction and operational health, availability, coverage, performance, and patch management of the endpoint, network security, and vulnerability management platform stack.
• Own SIEM, SOAR, and security telemetry platform strategy: log source prioritization, ingestion optimization and filtering, consumption management, and platform health and efficiency.
• Mature detection engineering as a discipline: use cases mapped to recognized adversary frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, detection-as-code with version control and testing, tuning, and coverage measurement.
• Drive event prioritization and cross-tool correlation to reduce false positives, in collaboration with the Incident Management team.
• Direct and advance automation development supporting incident management and other security capabilities, and ensure the health, optimization, and intended results of workflows.
• Remain available for escalation during significant security incidents and major security platform disruptions.

Job Qualifications

• 10+ years across cybersecurity and information technology, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years leading managers or senior technical leads.
• Proven experience building or maturing enterprise-scale security engineering functions across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering, including securing medium to large enterprise infrastructure.
• Deep, current experience designing, implementing, and securing cloud infrastructure in one major platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with working knowledge of a second.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and industry standards (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS).
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise security tooling, including SIEM, EDR, and web content filtering strategy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, prioritize competing initiatives, and lead through ambiguity in a decentralized organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and documentation skills, with the ability to present security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad experience with platforms such as Google SecOps, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Microsoft 365, vulnerability management, and privileged access management, or equivalents.
• Industry certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CISM, GCIA, GCIH, or cloud security specialty credentials).
• Experience in a large, highly distributed enterprise environment.

Compass Group is an equal opportunity employer. At Compass, we are committed to treating all Applicants and Associates fairly based on their abilities, achievements, and experience without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by law.

Qualified candidates must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Disclaimer: this job post is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all essential responsibilities, skills, tasks, or requirements associated with this position. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position posted, the Company reserves the right to modify or change the essential functions of the job based on business necessity. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with a criminal history (including relevant driving history), in a manner consistent with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York Fair Chance Act.

Compass Technology maintains a drug-free workplace.

Associates at Corporate are offered many fantastic benefits.

• Medical
• Vision
• Life Insurance/ AD
• Disability Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Time Off (varies by site/state)
• Associate Shopping Program
• Health and Wellness Programs
• Discount Marketplace
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Personal Leave