Lead Endpoint Security Solution Engineer

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Security Engineer responsible for the company's endpoint security platforms and related operational services. You will act as a technical lead, partnering with security, engineering, and business teams to understand challenges, evaluate requirements, and design secure, scalable solutions.

You will help shape endpoint security strategy, drive large deployments, and lead operational excellence across a diverse portfolio of technologies, ensuring reliability, performance, and

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies across large environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale deployments and platform upgrades.
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployments, upgrades, and platform lifecycle activities for endpoint security.
• Drive automation, operational excellence, and process optimization.
• Partner with stakeholders to balance security needs with user experience and operational support.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance across multiple initiatives.

Skills

Endpoint security

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

CrowdStrike

Tanium

Microsoft Defender

Elastic Security

Qualys

Digital Guardian

Job description

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.