Engineering Director, Advanced Security Solutions

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The Role
The Director, Advanced Security Solutions will lead a global professional services team delivering high-impact cybersecurity transformation projects for Presidio clients. This role focuses on driving holistic Security Operations modernization (including SOAR, XDR, NDR, and EDR capabilities), Zero Trust adoption, and Cloud Security transformation through advanced defensive strategies and modern security architectures. The Director will be a technically credible leader, equally comfortable engaging with C-level executives on security strategy and collaborating with senior architects and threat hunters on solution design. The ideal candidate will bring deep knowledge of the evolving threat landscape, proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams, and a track record of building professional services capabilities from the ground up.

Travel Requirements:

This is a remote role within the Continental United States and will require 25-30% travel to client locations to deliver professional services when needed.

Responsibilities Include:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a highly skilled geographically distributed team of cybersecurity delivery engineers and consultants, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and accountability ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of professional services projects, ensuring adherence to best practices, timelines, budgets, and customer-specific requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, providing strategic and consultative guidance to optimize their cybersecurity posture using advanced cybersecurity technologies.
• Define and continuously improve service delivery methodologies, ensuring engagements are consistent, repeatable, and aligned to industry best practices.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams across sales, product management, and engineering to drive solution adoption, customer engagement, and overall satisfaction.
• Maintain deep awareness of the global threat landscape to guide solution design and influence client security strategies.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for the most complex and high-impact security challenges.
• Proactively manage customer escalations, ensuring prompt resolution and maintaining strong, enduring client relationships.
• Continuously identify opportunities for process improvements, operational efficiency enhancements, and service delivery automation.
• Maintain financial oversight of the professional services practice, including budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and profitability management.
• Stay informed of industry trends, emerging threats, and technological advancements to enhance service offerings and maintain competitive edge.
• Establish, monitor, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to service delivery, customer satisfaction, and project success rates.

Required Skills and Professional Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent work experience and/or military experience (Degree will preferably be in Computer Science, Information Security, or related discipline)
• Minimum 5+ years of professional services or consulting experience in cybersecurity
• Minimum 5+ years in a senior leadership role
• Vendor certifications in respective focus areas from Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, and/or CrowdStrike.
• Industry-recognized blue-team certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC (GCIA, GCDA, GCED), CompTIA CySA+, or equivalent defensive operations credentials.
• Ability to bridge business and technical discussions, earning credibility with both executives and senior technical teams.
• Deep knowledge of common vulnerabilities and exploits, adversarial methodologies, and tactics.
• Expertise in holistic Security Operations, including SOAR, XDR, NDR, EDR, and incident response readiness.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust frameworks, cloud security reference architectures, and secure-by-design principles.
• Skilled in developing security solutions that are scalable, resilient, and aligned to client business objectives.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and architects into leadership roles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, and attention to detail.
• Prior experience working closely with customers and collaborating with IT, security, and developers.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and responsibilities, work alone or in small teams, achieve established goals and objectives, and communicate progress in a timely and meaningful manner.

Preferred Skills and Professional Experience:

• Strong track record of building and scaling professional services capabilities, including the creation of new service offerings.
• Deep technical expertise with advanced cybersecurity solutions, specifically XDR, SOAR, XSIAM, CSPM, Next-Generation SIEM, Security Operations, SASE/SSE, and Cloud Security.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully managing and leading geographically distributed professional services teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical problem-solving skills, and decisive leadership abilities.
• Proven capability in financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and resource planning within professional services contexts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to
• Exceptional leadership presence with strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working with leading security technology vendors and platforms, including:
  
  
  
  • Palo Alto Networks - XSIAM, XDR, Xpanse, XSOAR
  • CrowdStrike - Falcon, NG-SIEM
  • Threat Detection and AI-driven security analytics
  • Zero Trust Solutions - SASE, SSE, Enterprise Browsers
  • Cloud Security Solutions - CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP platforms
  
  
  
  
• Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms, adversary simulation, and advanced detection engineering.
• Recognized thought leadership through conference speaking, publications, or security community engagement.
• Experience engaging with global enterprise clients across multiple industries.
• Passion for discovering and researching new vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques.
• Strong cross-functional team participant and collaborative approach to problem-solving.
• Working knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and OWASP Top 10.

Your future at Presidio
JoiningPresidiomeans stepping into aculture of trailblazers-thinkers, builders, and collaborators-who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise inAI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here,your impact is real.Whether you're harnessing the power ofGenerative AI, architecting resilientdigital ecosystems, or drivingdata-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information, visit www.presidio.com.

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