Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. As the Manager of Security Engineering, you will lead a specialized team of security engineers focused on application security, cloud security, and AI system security across Acquia's product portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and grow a dedicated team of security engineers
- Conduct continuous performance evaluations (quarterly and annually) to guide professional development and advocate for promotions
- Define and execute a forward-looking security engineering roadmap aligned with Product Engineering needs and broader business initiatives, including the secure enablement of AI technologies
- Translate high-level business direction into actionable quarterly deliverables for the team
- Establish and measure team success against the completion of quarterly goals and the continuous improvement of annual compliance audit results
- Champion shift-left security practices, including threat modeling, secure code review, and developer security training embedded in the software development lifecycle
- Own and scale application security tooling—SAST, DAST, and SCA platforms—to systematically surface and remediate vulnerabilities across product codebases
- Shift the security paradigm from manual operational cleanup to building automated solutions and guardrails that eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities
- Lead 'research spikes' to proactively investigate cloud-native environments and identify systemic security gaps before they become incidents
- Ensure all security initiatives are rooted in clear findings and deliver exact, architectural fixes (code or configuration) to resolve them
- Define and enforce cloud security standards spanning IAM, API security, secrets management, and container workloads across AWS environments
- Define and enforce security standards for internal enterprise AI systems, including LLM-based agents, RAG pipelines, and AI-integrated workflows—covering risks such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, and privilege escalation
- Lead threat modeling for agentic AI systems where models have access to tools, APIs, or sensitive data
- Partner with AI/ML engineering teams to embed security review into AI development lifecycles, from model selection through deployment
- Evaluate and deploy AI-native security tooling to augment the team’s detection, triage, and remediation capacity
- Act as an internal consultant and advisory body to Product Engineering teams, guiding them on secure implementation practices
- Communicate complex, highly technical security risks effectively to non-technical project managers and stakeholders
- Influence and negotiate with software developers to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities within their workflows
- Serve as the primary technical bridge between Product Engineering and Security Operations, providing guidance on cloud and Kubernetes security configurations
Skills
- Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling (e.g., Semgrep, Snyk, Veracode, or equivalents) and guiding engineering teams on remediation
- Deep understanding of securing cloud-native applications and services on AWS, including IAM, API Gateway, secrets management, and container workloads
- Working knowledge of OWASP LLM Top 10, agentic AI attack surfaces (tool abuse, prompt injection, memory poisoning), and security considerations for AI systems with external integrations
- Experience using AI-assisted security tools—such as AI-powered SAST, copilot-assisted code review, or agentic vulnerability triage—to scale team output
- Strong working knowledge of the technical implications of operating within strict compliance frameworks, including ISO/SOC, PCI, and FedRAMP
- Exceptional ability to translate highly technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and the interpersonal skills required to influence engineering teams without direct reporting authority
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage
- Wellness programs
- Take it when you need it time off
- Parental leave
- Recognition programs
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