Information Security Manager

Hampton North; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampton North is seeking a player-coach engineering leader to manage a team of six senior security engineers in Reston, VA. The role involves overseeing a comprehensive security toolset while continuing hands-on technical work.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of security engineering experience, including Splunk administration and EDR platforms. Key responsibilities include leading the team, driving automation strategies, and managing security platform lifecycles.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering with hands-on tool deployment.
• Experience leading or mentoring a security engineering team.
• Hands-on experience with EDR platforms such as Tanium or CrowdStrike.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring a team of six senior security engineers.
• Driving automation strategy across tooling ecosystem.
• Owning lifecycle management and maturity for security platforms.
• Partnering with security operations for tool coverage.
• Building metrics, KPIs, and maturity roadmaps.
• Getting hands-on for integration challenges.
• Identifying gaps in tooling coverage.

Skills

Security engineering

Team leadership

Splunk administration

EDR platforms

Vulnerability scanning

Python scripting

Network security engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

This is a player-coach engineering leadership role sitting over a six-person team that owns and operates roughly 32 security tools across a mature enterprise environment. The right person is a principal-level security engineer who wants to step into management while staying close to the technical work, not a people manager with a security background. The team has real depth and runs mostly autonomously; this person sets direction, elevates the engineers, and drives the automation-first culture the organization is building toward.

Compensation: $180,000 - $220,000 base + 20% annual bonus + RSU grant of $40,000 - $55,000 at initial hire

Logistics: Reston, VA / Hybrid - on-site Tuesdays and Thursdays, core hours 10am-3pm

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring a team of six senior security engineers, each owning a subset of the 32-tool security stack
• Driving automation strategy across the tooling ecosystem to reduce manual operational burden
• Owning lifecycle management and operational maturity for enterprise security platforms including SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanning, and network security tooling
• Partnering with security operations to ensure tool coverage supports detection and response workflows
• Building and maintaining metrics, KPIs, and maturity roadmaps for the security tooling program
• Getting hands‑on where the work demands it, particularly on integration challenges, tuning, and automation builds
• Identifying and closing gaps in tooling coverage, particularly around network security

And what you need to have:

• 8+ years in security engineering with meaningful hands-on tool deployment and integration experience
• Prior experience leading or technically mentoring a security engineering team
• Splunk administration and integration experience, including use in a SIEM capacity
• Hands‑on experience with EDR platforms (Tanium or CrowdStrike strongly preferred)
• Vulnerability scanning tool ownership and operational experience
• Python scripting and automation workflow development
• Network security engineering background
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• CISSP, CISM, CEH, or GPEN preferred but not required