Remote Director of Security Engineering & Strategy

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to lead a cross-functional team that designs, implements, and optimizes the security technologies supporting our managed cybersecurity services.

This senior leadership role combines engineering strategy, people leadership, and hands-on technical oversight to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions for commercial, government, defense, and intelligence customers.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams in cybersecurity, IT, network operations, or security operations environments.
• Preference will be given to applicants who have led large cybersecurity engineering teams at the Director level or above.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architectures, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, and cloud security.
• Experience designing, deploying, integrating, or operating security technologies in complex enterprise or multi-customer environments.
• Experience establishing engineering standards, architecture practices, and technical roadmaps.
• Experience leading major technical implementations, migrations, integrations, or modernization efforts.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across security, network, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Proven ability to build, mentor, and lead high-performing technical teams.
• Strong ability to translate business and operational goals into engineering priorities and execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing security engineering team.
• Define the technical strategy, architecture standards, and roadmap for our security platforms.
• Oversee the design, deployment, integration, and lifecycle management of technologies including SIEM, EDR/XDR, DLP, network and cloud security, and security automation.
• Identify and implement practical applications of AI across security engineering operations to improve engineering efficiency, accelerate troubleshooting and analysis, automate repeatable workflows, and enhance the scalability of managed services.
• Review complex technical designs and serve as the senior escalation point for engineering and customer issues.
• Lead engineering efforts for customer onboarding, platform deployments, migrations, service expansions, and modernization initiatives.
• Work directly with customers to understand requirements, present architectures, explain technical decisions, and resolve concerns.
• Partner with Security Operations, Sales, and the PMO to ensure solutions are delivered successfully and can be effectively operated and supported.
• Drive automation, standardization, platform reliability, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and vendors and make recommendations on adoption, modernization, and retirement.
• Manage engineering priorities, staffing, hiring, performance, professional development, and delivery risk.
• Support solution development, technical proposals, and strategic customer engagements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Customer engagement

Strategic thinking

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Security leadership

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

DLP

SOAR

Cloud security

Monitoring/Telemetry

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to lead a cross-functional team that designs, implements, and optimizes the security technologies supporting our managed cybersecurity services.

This senior leadership role combines engineering strategy, people leadership, and hands-on technical oversight to deliver secure, scalable, and supportable solutions for commercial, government, defense, and intelligence customers.