The Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security team is looking for an experienced manager to manage a team of security engineers focused on driving security maturity for all of ASE. As a Senior Security Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to protect ASE services and design a secure foundation for services at Apple. Your role would be to build and lead a team of security engineers, set strategy, and lead execution, ensuring our products and services are hardened against attackers. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our security posture, and ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data. This role is both strategic and hands-on, requiring deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and a proven track record of managing and growing high-performing security teams.
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Description
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers. Set goals, conduct performance reviews, and support professional development. - Security Architecture: Drive the design and implementation of secure systems architecture across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments. - Threat Modeling & Security Discovery: Lead efforts in proactive threat assessments and security issue analysis at ASE scale - Security Partner: Engineer solutions and processes to allow engineering teams to remediate security issues and integrate security controls - Hardening & Guardrails: Develop known-good configurations for operating system images and commonly used applications as well as engineer security sandboxes and default-safe security wrappers - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted security advisor to engineering, product, and leadership teams.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with 8+ years in a leadership role managing security teams.
- Experience with engineering security solutions, driving security architecture and maintaining long term partnerships with engineering teams.
- Strong understanding of security protocols, cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP), identity & access management, encryption, and container security.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secure coding practices, and common security tools (e.g., Snyk, Burp Suite, Nessus, etc.)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex security concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience) Certs like CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, OSEE, etc. are helpful but not vital.
Pay & Benefits
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $190,700 and $329,600, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant .
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