Position Overview
The Cyber Engineer provides senior leadership for cybersecurity architecture, risk reduction, and delivery across infrastructure, platforms, applications, data, and operations. This role translates threat, vulnerability, and compliance considerations into practical controls that protect business services without unnecessarily impeding delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Define cybersecurity architecture principles, control patterns, reference designs, and improvement roadmaps.
- Assess security risks associated with new technologies, architectures, integrations, workloads, and operating models.
- Guide capabilities across threat prevention, vulnerability management, detection, response, security monitoring, and resilience.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, IAM, data, and operations teams to embed security into the delivery lifecycle.
- Establish requirements for segmentation, encryption, endpoint protection, logging, monitoring, configuration management, and secure access.
- Support security assessments, incident-readiness activities, remediation planning, and risk acceptance decisions.
- Align technical controls with applicable policies, regulatory obligations, audit requirements, and business priorities.
- Track security outcomes, control effectiveness, open risks, and remediation progress for technical and executive audiences.
Common Expectations for WWT Senior Level Roles
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders, delivery teams, and leadership.
- Build alignment across architecture, engineering, operations, security, finance, and business teams.
- Produce clear architecture decisions, standards, roadmaps, risks, and implementation guidance.
- Lead through influence, facilitate decisions, and create momentum across complex initiatives.
- Promote secure-by-design, automation-first, resilient, measurable, and customer-focused outcomes.
- Stay current on relevant technologies, market direction, operational practices, and industry standards.