Senior Manager, Security Engineering (Cloud Security)

Location: Chicago, IL, United States; hybrid with four days in-office each week in most locations. The role includes an infrequent, emergency-only escalation rotation outside normal business hours.

Total cash compensation: $151,975–$233,025 annually, inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive.

Company

hirify.global builds software in house and operates security operations and engineering functions protecting its corporate environment, products, and cloud platforms.

What you will do

• Lead and develop security engineers and the incident response lead, including workload planning, hiring, performance management, and career growth.
• Own the roadmap and operational health of detection and security platforms including Splunk, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Wiz Defend, and Zscaler.
• Partner with the 24x7 SOC to improve detections and playbooks, automate manual work with XSOAR or Tines, and apply AI to detection, triage, and response.
• Support complex incident investigations and containment, convert lessons learned into engineering improvements, and troubleshoot technical blockers.
• Partner with product development, cloud platform, and infrastructure teams to secure AWS, GCP, and Azure environments.
• Integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines, including Harness, and help secure agentic and AI-assisted development pipelines.

Requirements

• 4+ years of people management or equivalent technical leadership experience in security engineering or security operations, with evidence of developing people and delivering engineering work.
• Hands-on knowledge of security engineering and complex problem troubleshooting.
• Experience with SIEM, endpoint detection and response, cloud security posture management, and security automation or orchestration; comparable tools are accepted.
• Cloud security experience in a large, multi-cloud environment, ideally including AWS at scale.
• Knowledge of incident investigation, containment, and post-incident improvement.
• Sound technical judgment and clear communication with engineers, analysts, and senior leaders, including globally distributed colleagues.

Nice to have

• CI/CD security experience, including SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and IaC scanning.
• CISSP, CISM, or GIAC certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with regular in-person collaboration and tools for engaging with global colleagues.
• 100% 401(k) match up to 6% of salary, stock ownership potential, life insurance, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• HSA contributions, wellness incentives, disability insurance, trust-based time off, and a six-week paid sabbatical.
• Paid family caregiving and parental leave, adoption assistance, leadership coaching, mentorship, tuition reimbursement, and a $1,000 annual flex stipend.
• Charitable matching, paid volunteering days, and 15+ employee resource and affinity groups.