Lead Security Engineer

Toll Brothers; Fort Washington (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Toll Brothers is seeking a Lead Security Engineer for our Corporate office in Fort Washington, PA. The role focuses on defining and implementing security engineering standards, incident response, and optimizing core security technologies across identity, endpoints, networks, and cloud.

The Lead Security Engineer will reduce enterprise risk by improving detection and response capabilities, and will participate in on-call rotations with IT and business teams to align security with operational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7–10+ years hands-on security engineering or operations experience.
• Strong experience in incident response and remediation.
• Proven expertise with enterprise security controls.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• CISSP, CISM, or CEH certifications preferred.
• Experience mentoring or leading team members preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists with security engineering and incident response functions across the enterprise.
• Participants in investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for high-severity security incidents.
• Assists with designing, implementing, optimizing security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and monitoring platforms.
• Developing and maintaining detection logic, response playbooks, and operational security documentation.
• Provide technical escalation support and participates in after-hours on-call rotation.
• Partner with IT and business teams to ensure security controls are aligned with operational and business objectives.
• Evaluate, implements, and continuously improves security technologies and processes.
• Support proactive threat detection and response through monitoring and analytics platforms.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field

CISSP

CISM

CEH

Tools

SIEM

UEBA

EDR/XDR

SASE

IAM

SSO/MFA

Job description

Overview

Since 1967, Toll Brothers has been building luxury homes and communities in the best locations in the U.S. Today,we’rea Fortune 500 companyoperatingin over 60 markets.We’rethe country’s premier luxury builder with the widest range of product offerings and price points in the industry, serving first-time, move-up, active-adult, and second-home buyers.

From the homes we build to the talent we recruit, we know that to be the best, we have to work with the best. Toll Brothers is a place where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and where employees of all backgrounds are treated with fairness, dignity and respect. We believe every employee should feel safe to be their true and authentic self at work. Our employees are our family, and we strive to uphold the values that our founders instilled in us, creating an exceptional place to work that is inclusive to all.

Toll Brothers, America's leading luxury home builder, seeks a Lead Security Engineer to join our team at our Corporate office in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.

What is the opportunity?

The Lead Security Engineer is a senior technical resource on the Cyber & Information Security team. This role is responsible for assisting with defining and implementing security engineering standards, incident response efforts, and ensuring core security technologies are properly designed, configured, and optimized.

The Lead Security Engineer plays a critical role in reducing enterprise risk while improving detection and response capabilities across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud environments.

What are the primary responsibilities?

• Assists with security engineering and incident response functions across the enterprise
• Participants in investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for high- severity security incidents
• Assists with designing, implementing, optimizing security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and monitoring platforms
• Developing and maintaining detection logic, response playbooks, and operational security documentation
• Provide technical escalation support and participates in after-hours on-call rotation
• Partner with IT and business teams to ensure security controls are aligned with operational and business objectives
• Evaluate, implements, and continuously improves security technologies and processes
• Support proactive threat detection and response through monitoring and analytics platforms

Qualifications

Does this describe you?

• Strong technical expertise across multiple security domains and enterprise IT systems

• Deep understanding of incident response processes and threat mitigation strategies

• Ability to translate complex technical risks into business-relevant terms

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across all levels

What technologies and domains will you work with?

• IT service management and incident tracking platforms
• Network security technologies including next-generation firewall and SASE
• Endpoint detection and response (EDR) and XDR
• Cloud productivity and infrastructure security controls
• Identity and access management (IAM), SSO and MFA
• Email security and phishing protection
• Secure web gateway (SWG) and DNS security
• SIEM and UEBA platforms
• Attack surface management and breach simulation tools
• AI-assisted security technologies

Do you have these qualifications?

• Essential
  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 7–10+ years of hands‑on security engineering or operations experience
  • Strong experience in incident response and remediation
  • Proven expertise with enterprise security controls
  • Strong organizational and communication skills

• Preferred
  • CISSP, CISM, or CEH
  • Experience mentoring or leading team members

We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package that includes comprehensive medical/dental, 401(k) with a company match, discounted stock purchase, discounts on mortgages, homes, and much more!

Toll Brothers is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity. All employment decisions, policies, and practices are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. Toll Brothers will not engage in or tolerate unlawful discrimination (including any form of unlawful harassment) on account of a person's sex (including pregnancy), age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender nonconformity, status as a transgender individual, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, family responsibility, armed services, or any other status protected by law.