Lead Security Engineer - Remote, Architecture & Risk

Centex Tech; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Centex Technologies is seeking a Security Engineer 4 - Lead to drive security engineering across enterprise and customer systems. You will own complex security work, develop clear technical guidance, and collaborate with program, product, and customer teams.

Responsibilities include designing secure architectures, leading threat modeling and risk assessments, overseeing incident response activities, and ensuring compliant security documentation across frameworks such as NIST, RMF, and FedRAMP.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent directly relevant experience.
• 7+ years of cybersecurity/security engineering experience with technical leadership.
• Deep knowledge of security architecture, identity, networks, endpoints, cloud, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure engineering.
• Ability to lead risk-based decisions and produce clear technical and customer-facing documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and review security architectures, trust boundaries, defensive controls, and secure integration patterns.
• Engineer identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application, logging, vulnerability-management, and data-protection capabilities.
• Lead technical risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, remediation planning, and security testing.
• Support incident investigation, containment, recovery, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Set engineering standards, review designs, mentor contributors, and coordinate security work across programs.
• Support NIST, RMF, CMMC, FedRAMP, or contract-specific security documentation and evidence as applicable.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Security architecture

Identity management

Networks

Cloud security

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Centex Technologies is seeking a Security Engineer 4 - Lead to drive security engineering across enterprise and customer systems. You will own complex security work, develop clear technical guidance, and collaborate with program, product, and customer teams.

Responsibilities include designing secure architectures, leading threat modeling and risk assessments, overseeing incident response activities, and ensuring compliant security documentation across frameworks such as NIST, RMF, and FedRAMP.