Lead Endpoint Security Solution Engineer

Vanguard; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Lead Endpoint Security Engineer to own our endpoint security platforms and operational services within a hybrid work model. The role drives large-scale deployments, platform lifecycle activities, and continuous improvement in a hybrid work model.

You will partner with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to understand challenges, evaluate requirements, and develop scalable, secure solutions that balance security with user experience and

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies.
• Proven ability to lead deployments and platform lifecycles.
• Strong communication and leadership for cross-functional teams.
• Experience in observability, monitoring, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise deployments, upgrades, and platform lifecycle activities.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement across endpoint security.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design secure, scalable solutions.
• Guide solution design and influence direction across teams.

Skills

Endpoint security tech

CrowdStrike

Tanium

Microsoft Defender

Elastic Security

Qualys

Digital Guardian

Observability

Automation

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

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.