The Walt Disney Company

Lead Security Engineer (Project Hire)

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Florida, New York, Washington

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Salary

💰 $138,900 - $195,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformJamfLinuxMacOSPythonSplunkVBA

About the role

  • Strengthen our overall security posture by implementing best-practice configurations, improving monitoring, and integrating security tools — all to help our Studio customers stay focused on producing outstanding content.
  • Act as a hands-on technical leader who blends deep security expertise with engineering know-how to deliver on our security roadmap.
  • Partner closely with our Studio teams and Content Security stakeholders to align roadmaps and onboard new security capabilities across Studio environments.
  • Work with various technical teams to design, implement, and mature security technologies and operational processes.
  • Identify opportunities to streamline and enhance our security operations, tooling, and incident response processes.
  • Support the tuning and optimization of security platforms owned by the Studios Cyber Team, including vulnerability management and endpoint protection solutions.
  • Maintain clear documentation of system architectures, automation scripts, and iterative design choices to support scalability and handoffs.
  • Conduct technical assessments and advise internal and external partners on new security features or integrations, especially around tools like Qualys/Tenable, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Wiz.IO, and others.
  • Participate in regular security reporting to maintain transparency and accountability within the team.
  • Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers and analysts, ensuring secure design and operational excellence.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7 years in a hands-on technical security role
  • Strong problem-solving mindset, with the ability to develop practical automation solutions
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Familiarity with one or more of the following security tool platforms: CrowdStrike, Qualys, Tenable, Wiz.io, Splunk, Axonius
  • Detail-oriented, able to build solutions to completion, but also comfortable delivering MVPs when required
  • Working knowledge of frameworks and platforms including NIST CSF, CIS Controls, Git/GitHub, SCCM, JAMF, and major OS platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux)
  • Familiar with IAM integrations like Active Directory, Okta, Auth0, SAML, and OIDC
  • Broad technical understanding of security technologies such as DLP, MDM/MAM, firewalls, VPNs, endpoint protection, PKI, RBAC, IAM
  • Experience with Jira and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban methodologies “Nice To Have”
  • Ability to translate technical cybersecurity concepts into business value and compelling narratives around customer and risk impacts
  • Customer-focused and curious — always looking for innovative ways to advance threat and vulnerability management, monitoring, and incident response
  • Comfortable configuring operating systems, databases, security platforms, and handling system integrations
  • Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, C#, and/or VBA