Director, SASE Engineering

USAA Life Insurance Company; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company is seeking a Director, SASE Engineering to lead the engineering organization responsible for secure access, network security, and communications security platforms. You will own the strategy, architecture, modernization, and lifecycle of SASE and related security services to support USAA’s workforce and cloud initiatives.

The role requires in-office work four days per week and is based in San Antonio, TX. Relocation assistance is available for the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Secur.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SASE Engineering organization and establish the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for secure access, network security, and communications security platforms.
• Ensure the security, reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of critical SASE and communications security services by establishing engineering standards and operational practices.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Application Engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable capabilities for internet, SaaS, cloud, and enterprise resources.
• Lead modernization and convergence toward a SASE architecture, including SD-WAN, Secure Web Gateway, and Zero Trust Networking.
• Develops and communicates information security risk management policies in partnership with senior leaders to ensure compliance with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Secur

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 a dedicated Director, SASE Engineering, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for the critical secure access, network security, and communications security platforms and services that protect and connect USAA's workforce and technology environment. You will be accountable for the strategy, architecture, engineering, modernization, resiliency, and lifecycle of SASE and secure communications capabilities, including Cato, Proofpoint, Blue Coat, SD-WAN, secure web access, and email security , ensuring these services remain secure, highly available, scalable, and positioned to support USAA's evolving network and cloud strategy.

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 SASE Engineering organization and establish the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for secure access, network security, and communications security platforms, infrastructure, integrations, and services protecting USAA's workforce and technology ecosystem.
• Ensure the security, reliability, resiliency, availability, scalability, and recoverability of critical SASE and communications security services by establishing engineering standards, platform health metrics, lifecycle management, capacity planning, performance expectations, and operational readiness practices.
• Partner across Cybersecurity, Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, and application engineering teams to translate connectivity and security requirements into scalable engineering capabilities, enabling secure access to internet, SaaS, cloud, and enterprise resources while advancing consistent policy enforcement.
• Lead the modernization and convergence of network and security capabilities toward a SASE architecture, including SD-WAN, Secure Web Gateway, Zero Trust Network Access, cloud-delivered security, email protection, policy automation, and the reduction of legacy security infrastructure and point solutions.
• 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 Secur