Nexxen

Director of Engineering, Security

Nexxen

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $180,000 - $219,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Own the strategy, delivery, and lifecycle of our security program across applications, cloud/infrastructure, identity, data, and SOC operations.
  • Lead secure-by-design practices, incident readiness, and AI security governance while partnering with executives and cross-functional leaders to deliver measurable risk reduction and compliance at scale.
  • Establish secure SDLC and architecture guardrails, ensures detection and response effectiveness, governs security vendors and budgets, and drives process transformation.
  • Collaborate closely with Engineering/Platform on CI/CD and Kubernetes, with IT for endpoint and access policy enforcement, with Data on protection and lineage, and with Legal/Compliance on SOC 2/SOX/GDPR and AI governance.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in Security Engineering with 5+ years leading managers and multi-domain portfolios (SOC/IR, AppSec, Cloud/Infra, Identity)
  • Hands-on leadership with:
  • - AWS multi-account security (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, SCPs, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, KMS, CloudTrail, Config)
  • - Kubernetes/EKS, container security, service mesh, ingress, and secrets management (Vault/Secrets Manager)
  • - Secure SDLC with CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab), Terraform/Terragrunt, OPA/Conftest, SAST/DAST/SCA (CodeQL, Semgrep, Snyk, ZAP/Burp)
  • - Web/API protections (AWS WAF/Cloudflare), SBOM/signing (Syft/Grype, Cosign/Sigstore), Dependabot/Renovate, Gitleaks
  • - Endpoint/Network security (Palo Alto/Fortinet, Zscaler/ZTNA, CrowdStrike/SentinelOne, Jamf/Intune)
  • - Identity/SSO with Azure AD/Entra ID, PIM, Conditional Access, SCIM; Okta or AWS IAM Identity Center
  • - SIEM/SOAR (Cyrebro; Tines/XSOAR) and threat intel (MISP/OpenCTI); GRC (Drata/Vanta/ServiceNow), Jira/Confluence
  • Proven delivery of large-scale security transformations and measurable risk reduction; executive presence and board/audit experience.
  • Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and team-building skills.
  • Strong problem-solving, analytical abilities, and crisp decision-making.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to operate under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • EAP
  • parental leave
  • unlimited vacation
  • company-paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Security EngineeringAWS multi-account securityKubernetesSecure SDLCCI/CDTerraformWeb/API protectionsEndpoint securityIdentity managementSIEM
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementteam-buildingproblem-solvinganalytical abilitiesdecision-makingcommunicationinterpersonal skillsoperating under pressuremanaging multiple priorities