NorthwoodSpace
Security Engineering Manager
Torrance, CA
No sponsorship$53k-$800kDetected 32 days ago
TypeScriptPythonBashPowerShellAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySIEMMicrosoft SentinelUEBADetection EngineeringIncident ResponseFirewallVPNZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- If you like solving complex challenges and seeing your work deployed around the world with real impact, Northwood is the place to do it.
- This is a senior technical leadership role for an engineer who is equally at home architecting security platforms and mentoring a growing team.
- This role reports to the Head of Security.
Responsibilities
- Own the full lifecycle of Northwood's SIEM platform - architecture, log source onboarding across ground stations and cloud infrastructure, correlation rule development, tuning, and automated alerting.
- Build and maintain EDR platform operations, including agent deployment, policy management, alert triage, and integration with SIEM workflows.
- Develop and continuously improve detection content, incident response playbooks, and SOC processes for a distributed, mission-critical environment.
- Lead the deployment and ongoing tuning of User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) capabilities within the SIEM environment, establishing behavioral baselines and refining detection models to surface insider threats and anomalous activity.
- Develop and maintain UEBA use cases, correlation rules, and risk scoring models, working closely with the SOC to ensure alerts are actionable and high-fidelity.
- Analyze UEBA telemetry to identify patterns indicative of insider risk, compromised accounts, or policy violations, and drive remediation in coordination with HR, legal, and security leadership.
- Manage and maintain FortiGate firewall infrastructure, including policy management, segmentation, firmware lifecycle, and log integration.
- Deploy, harden, and maintain security infrastructure across on-premises environments and AWS GovCloud and Microsoft GCC, adhering to applicable compliance frameworks.
- Partner with product infrastructure engineers to ensure security is embedded in network and system architecture from the ground up.
- Deploy and manage email security infrastructure, including administration of platforms such as Proofpoint or Sublime Security, policy tuning, threat response, and integration with SIEM workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years in security engineering or DevSecOps with demonstrated experience in a technical leadership capacity.
- Experience deploying and managing EDR solutions in a production environment.
- Experience deploying and securing workloads in AWS GovCloud and/or Microsoft GCC environments.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent) applied to security infrastructure.
- Experience administering Okta, including SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, and SIEM integration.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to defense and government environments (CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP).
- U.S. citizenship or status as a lawful permanent resident required to conform with ITAR export regulations.
Nice to have
- Active TS clearance or higher.
- Experience with Cloudflare Zero Trust / ZTNA configuration and administration.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or Panther.
- Experience with EDR platforms such as CrowdStrike Falcon or SentinelOne.
- Background in aerospace, defense, critical infrastructure, or other regulated industries.
- ITAR compliance experience.
- CISSP, CISM, CISA, or equivalent professional certification.
- Additional Requirements:
Compensation
- $53k-$800k
Benefits
- Develop and enforce DLP rules and rulesets across email, web, and SaaS platforms, continuously tuning policies to reduce false positives while maintaining strong data protection coverage.
Company info
- Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology.
- We are building a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions such as national security, global connectivity, and disaster response.
- With a vertically integrated approach, Northwood designs, builds, and rapidly deploys scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation as part of your application for employment or interviews with us, please let us know.
Visa & Work Authorization
- citizenship or status as a lawful permanent resident required to conform with ITAR export regulations
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