Engineering Manager Security Operations

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. #LI-Remote

The mission of Plaid's Security Operations team is to secure environments for our employees, development, and services. We achieve this by implementing controls that layer security into the groundwork of our engineering infrastructure, streamlining implementations, and measuring effectiveness. We also monitor and respond to issues that occur in those environments, address events, and reduce risk exposure.

We are seeking an Experienced Security Operations Manager to join our existing Security team. In this role, you will be responsible for directly impacting our organization's security posture, enabling security across the foundations on which we do business. You will collaborate closely with engineering and security teams and other stakeholders to ensure Plaid’s infrastructure is ready to mitigate the dynamic threats the company faces. You will direct the overall strategy of the Security Operations team, providing guidance and prioritization to major initiatives that improve our long-term defensive capabilities.

• Owning the direction of cloud and corporate security within a world-class Security team.
• Leading an effective team to deliver on increasingly impactful and ambitious objectives.
• Building comprehensive security controls across cloud, container, and corporate environments.
• Applying previous experience to provide guidance, mentorship, and growth for team members.
• Following changes in the state of security as an industry, and growing your own knowledge of offensive threats and defensive techniques and best practices.
• Coordinating holistic identity and access management practices.
• Oversee and conduct formal incident investigations and lead advanced incident handling scenarios including internal and external data breaches and abnormal activity.

• Effective people management skills, including goal-setting, prioritization, cross-team coordination, and continuous feedback.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and container infrastructure best practices, protection of corporate assets, and threat detection techniques.
• Broad experience across security operations topics that affect infrastructure and corporate environments, including identity and access, network, vulnerability, and change management.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and risk-based security programs.
• Demonstrable mentorship results to help ensure continued skill and capability growth across the SecOps team.
• Background working in security engineering orgs, protecting AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Security control automation and implementation across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.

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