Lead Cybersecurity Engineer: Drive Security Architecture

Permian Resources; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Permian Resources is seeking a Lead Cyber Security Engineer to join the Enterprise Cybersecurity Team in Midland, Texas. You will be the principal technical authority, setting the security engineering direction and mentoring a team of engineers and analysts while remaining hands-on across IAM, vulnerability management, and threat analysis.

The successful candidate will drive the security roadmap, design enterprise controls across network, cloud, and endpoints, and communicate risk and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity or related field.
• 8+ years in cybersecurity engineering with a technical lead track record.
• Ability to set technical direction and own security architecture.
• Hands-on expertise across security engineering, IAM, vulnerability mgmt, and security operations.
• Strong threat analysis, incident response, and knowledge of NIST CSF.
• Proficiency with scripting (PowerShell, Python) and automation-first practices.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal technical authority for security engineering, IAM, vulnerability mgmt, and security operations.
• Own and maintain the security engineering roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to security engineers and analysts; partner on hiring.
• Lead evaluation and implementation of security tools and vendor relationships.
• Design and implement enterprise security across network, endpoint, cloud, and app layers.
• Develop and enforce security policies and hardening standards.
• Own the identity architecture — SSO, MFA, conditional access, least-privilege/RBAC, PAM.
• Direct the vulnerability management program including pen tests and remediation governance.
• Act as escalation point for investigations and major incidents; lead containment and recovery.
• Guide detection engineering and threat hunting; incorporate threat intel.
• Communicate risk, roadmap, and incident posture to technical teams and executives.

Skills

Leadership

Security architecture

IAM

Threat analysis

Scripting/Automation

NIST CSF

Cloud security

EDR/XDR

PAM

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT/Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Firewall Management

WAF

EDR

DLP

AWS

Azure

GCP

SIEM

IAM

PAM

Job description

Permian Resources is seeking a Lead Cyber Security Engineer to join the Enterprise Cybersecurity Team in Midland, Texas. You will be the principal technical authority, setting the security engineering direction and mentoring a team of engineers and analysts while remaining hands-on across IAM, vulnerability management, and threat analysis.

The successful candidate will drive the security roadmap, design enterprise controls across network, cloud, and endpoints, and communicate risk and incident