Remote Director, Security Engineering (Cloud & Detection)

Compass Group USA; Georgia; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Vision

Life Insurance/ AD

Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Holiday Time Off

Job summary

Compass Group USA is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to own strategy and execution across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering. You’ll lead a multi-team organization, set roadmaps, and align security tooling and telemetry with business needs in a remote-capable, national role.

You will partner with IT, security, and business teams, drive vendors, and report metrics to the CISO Office.

Qualifications

• 10+ years across cybersecurity and information technology, including 5+ years managing engineering teams and 2+ years leading managers or senior technical leads.
• Proven experience building or maturing enterprise-scale security engineering functions across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering.
• Deep, current experience designing, implementing, and securing cloud infrastructure in one major platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with working knowledge of a second.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and industry standards (NIST, ISO 27001, CIS).
• Demonstrated ownership of enterprise security tooling, including SIEM, EDR, and web content filtering strategy.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, prioritize initiatives, and lead through ambiguity in a decentralized organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Security Engineering organization (Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, and Detection Engineering) through managers and individual contributors, setting organizational, team, and individual goals aligned to security objectives.
• Recruit, develop, and retain technical talent: build clear career paths, mentor managers and engineers, and conduct performance appraisals.
• Own the multi-year security engineering roadmap, shaping capabilities, methods, and investment priorities.
• Own the security vendor portfolio: tool consolidation and rationalization, procurement, renewals, licensing and budget alignment, support escalations, roadmap influence, and quarterly business reviews.
• Partner across IT, infrastructure, application, and sector technology teams to advance security engineering projects.
• Present posture and metrics to the CISO Office and senior technology leadership; serve as executive-level subject matter expert on security engineering, cloud-native controls, and defensive engineering.
• Direct the design, deployment, and operation of security visibility and control mechanisms across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Own the technical direction and operational health, availability, coverage, performance, and patch management of the endpoint, network security, and vulnerability management platform stack.
• Own SIEM, SOAR, and security telemetry platform strategy: log source prioritization, ingestion optimization and filtering, consumption management, and platform health and efficiency.
• Mature detection engineering as a discipline: use cases mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, version-controlled testing, tuning, and coverage measurement.
• Drive event prioritization and cross-tool correlation to reduce false positives, with Incident Management.
• Direct and advance automation development supporting incident management and other security capabilities, ensuring health and outcomes of workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Security engineering

Cloud security

Detection engineering

Vendor management

Communication

Project management

Education

CISSP

CCSP

CISA

CISM

GCIA

GCIH

Cloud security credentials

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Web content filtering

Job description

Compass Group USA is seeking a Director of Security Engineering to own strategy and execution across cloud security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering. You’ll lead a multi-team organization, set roadmaps, and align security tooling and telemetry with business needs in a remote-capable, national role.

You will partner with IT, security, and business teams, drive vendors, and report metrics to the CISO Office.