
Director of Engineering, Security
Nexxen
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United 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
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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