Principal Security Engineer & Tech Lead

Permian Resources; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Permian Resources (NYSE: PR) in Midland, Texas, seeks a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to serve as principal technical authority for security engineering, owning the roadmap, and mentoring a team while remaining hands-on across IAM, vulnerability management, threat analysis, and security operations.

The role leads tool evaluations, designs enterprise security solutions across network, endpoint, cloud, and apps, and communicates risk to executives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or a related role.
• Experience as a technical lead and ability to mentor engineers.
• Deep hands-on expertise across security engineering, IAM, vulnerability management, and security operations.
• Strong knowledge of threat analysis and incident response.
• Familiarity with NIST CSF and industry standards.
• Proficiency with scripting (PowerShell, Python) and automation-first practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as principal technical authority and design lead across security domains.
• Own and maintain the security engineering roadmap, standards, and reference architectures.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and mentorship to security engineers and analysts, and partner with leadership on hiring and skills development.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of security tools and platforms, and own key vendor and technical relationships.
• Design and implement enterprise security solutions across network, endpoint, cloud, and application layers, including firewalls, EDR/XDR, SIEM, and DLP.
• Develop and enforce security policies, procedures, and hardening standards to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Own the identity architecture - SSO, MFA, conditional access, least-privilege/RBAC, and PAM.
• Direct the vulnerability management program - scanning strategy, risk-based prioritization, SLAs, and remediation governance, including pen-testing.
• Act as senior escalation point for complex investigations and major-incident response, leading containment and recovery.
• Guide detection engineering and threat hunting, and incorporate threat intelligence into defensive controls.
• Communicate risk, roadmap, and incident posture clearly to technical teams and executives.

Skills

Security engineering

IAM

Vulnerability management

Threat analysis

Leadership

Mentoring

Scripting

PowerShell

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Firewall Management

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Cloud Security (AWS/Azure/GCP)

SIEM

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Privileged Access Management (PAM)

Job description

Permian Resources (NYSE: PR) in Midland, Texas, seeks a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer to serve as principal technical authority for security engineering, owning the roadmap, and mentoring a team while remaining hands-on across IAM, vulnerability management, threat analysis, and security operations.

The role leads tool evaluations, designs enterprise security solutions across network, endpoint, cloud, and apps, and communicates risk to executives.