Security Engineering Lead – Cloud Security & Automation

001_MstarInc Morningstar Inc. Legal Entity; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 152,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Stock ownership

Medical benefits

Wellness incentives

Disability insurance

Sabbatical program

Parental leave

Mentorship opportunities

Education stipend

Job summary

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a leader to head the Security Engineering team that builds the tooling behind our security program. You will set priorities, grow engineers, and ensure platforms provide visibility, automation, and protection for SOC and business needs.

You’ll also guide shared foundations used by product teams, including pipeline scanning and hardened containers. You’ll report to Security Operations & Engineering leadership, coach your team, and work closely with product development

Qualifications

• 4+ years of people management experience or equivalent leadership experience in security engineering/operations.
• Hands-on security engineering knowledge; able to troubleshoot complex problems with the team.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, cloud security posture management, and security automation/orchestration.
• Cloud security in a large multi-cloud environment, ideally including AWS at scale; incident investigation and post-incident improvement.
• Strong technical judgment and clear communication with engineers, analysts, and senior leaders, including distributed teams.
• CI/CD security experience including SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and IaC scanning; certifications welcome.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop security engineers and the incident response lead.
• Own the engineering roadmap for detection and security platforms.
• Improve detections, playbooks, and automation with SOC in parallel.
• Ensure secure CI/CD pipelines and secure development tooling across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Collaborate with product, cloud, and infrastructure teams to strengthen security.
• Support complex investigations and containment; share lessons learned for improvements.

Skills

People management

Security leadership

Security strategy

Clear communication

Incident response coordination

CI/CD security

Education

CISSP

CISM

GIAC

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Wiz

Wiz Defend

Zscaler

XSOAR

Tines

Harness

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Morningstar, Inc. is seeking a leader to head the Security Engineering team that builds the tooling behind our security program. You will set priorities, grow engineers, and ensure platforms provide visibility, automation, and protection for SOC and business needs.

You’ll also guide shared foundations used by product teams, including pipeline scanning and hardened containers. You’ll report to Security Operations & Engineering leadership, coach your team, and work closely with product development