Lead Endpoint Security Solution Engineer

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Lead Endpoint Security Engineer to own and evolve our endpoint security platforms across a large enterprise. You will partner with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to translate complex challenges into scalable, secure solutions.

The role focuses on strategy, deployment, and ongoing operation, driving automation, platform health, incident response, and governance to reduce risk while preserving user experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies and large-scale deployments.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical leadership across security and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise deployments, upgrades, integrations, and platform lifecycle activities across the endpoint security ecosystem.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through engineering best practices.
• Develop practical endpoint security solutions balancing security, user experience, and supportability.
• Guide solution design across multiple initiatives and provide technical leadership.
• Ensure platform health, monitoring, incident response, and risk reduction.

Skills

CrowdStrike

Tanium

Microsoft Defender

Elastic Security

Qualys

Digital Guardian

Endpoint security

Job description

Join a team responsible for protecting and securing Vanguard’s endpoint ecosystem at enterprise scale. We're looking for a technically strong leader who can understand complex business and security challenges, develop practical solutions, and drive the strategy, deployment, and operation of endpoint security technologies. This role offers the opportunity to influence security outcomes across the organization while partnering with stakeholders across engineering, infrastructure, and cybersecurity.

Lead Endpoint Security Engineer

Position Summary

Security Engineer responsible for Vanguard's endpoint security platforms and operational services. This role serves as a technical leader within the endpoint security space, partnering with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to understand business challenges, evaluate requirements, and develop scalable, secure solutions. The individual will help shape endpoint security strategy, drive large-scale deployments, and lead operational excellence across a diverse portfolio of endpoint security technologies.

Deployment, Engineering & Continuous Improvement

• Lead enterprise deployments, upgrades, integrations, and platform lifecycle activities across the endpoint security ecosystem.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through engineering best practices, standardization, and process optimization.
• Evaluate new technologies and capabilities to ensure scalable, supportable, and secure solutions.

Endpoint Security & Solution Delivery

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and develop practical endpoint security solutions that balance security, user experience, and operational supportability.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for endpoint security technologies, providing technical leadership and guiding solution design across multiple initiatives.
• Assess platform dependencies, architectural considerations, and cross-technology impacts when introducing new capabilities.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Lead technical discussions and influence solution direction across engineering, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
• Provide guidance on complex technical challenges and communicate recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to endpoint security strategy, governance, and service ownership practices.

Operations & Platform Management

• Help lead the operational support, stability, and resiliency of enterprise endpoint security platforms.
• Drive platform health, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, and operational risk reduction activities.
• Ensure endpoint security services remain reliable, scalable, and effective across a large enterprise environment.

Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies such as CrowdStrike, Tanium, Microsoft Defender, Elastic Security, Qualys, Digital Guardian, or similar platforms.
• Deep understanding of endpoint security, endpoint engineering, and enterprise deployment practices.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments and technology deployments.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, automation, and operational resilience initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission. To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.