Manager, Cyber Security
Ping Identity provides an identity security platform for the digital enterprise, offering identity, access management, orchestration, and fraud prevention solutions. They serve large organizations across government, financial services, healthcare, retail, and media & telco sectors.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Ping Identity
Ping Identity offers the Ping Identity Platform, an identity security solution providing capabilities for identify, manage, access, and govern needs, with support for any identity and any experience. The platform is powered by Helix, an AI engine driving intelligent identity services, and supports orchestration through a no-code, drag-and-drop interface, decentralized identity with reusable verified credentials, and fraud prevention capabilities. Ping Identity serves some of the world's largest organizations, including government agencies (e.g., State of Connecticut), financial services firms (e.g., Coast Capital), healthcare companies (e.g., Philips), retailers (e.g., Best Buy), and media & telco companies (e.g., The BBC), helping them reduce fraud, improve customer experience, and scale digital identity services across 6,500+ orchestrated capabilities and 350+ connectors.
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About the Role
You will run day-to-day cyber security engineering operations and build operational capacity through planning, prioritization, delegation, and continuous improvement. You will mature incident-response processes, coordinate complex incidents, improve on-call readiness, lead scalable security solutions, guide detection engineering, assess operational risk, translate security gaps into solutions, and collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and operations.
Requirements
- Experience leading or managing security operations security engineering incident response or technical operations teams
- Strong operational-delivery experience in prioritization planning delegation and continuous improvement
- Experience building team capacity and developing technical capabilities within a security function
- Incident-response experience coordinating complex incidents across multiple teams
- Experience with security orchestration and automation tooling and bespoke scripting automation
- Experience with SIEM systems preferably Google Chronicle and YARA-L
- Strong understanding of cloud environments preferably AWS and GCP
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker in development and incident-response contexts
- Experience deploying operating or using endpoint detection and response tools
- Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing teams without direct reporting lines
- Ability to communicate operational priorities technical risk and delivery trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong judgment ownership and decision-making during incidents and escalations
- Willingness to participate in the on-call rotation
- Experience building or leading a security operations center cyber security engineering or detection engineering function is advantageous
- Experience defining operating models roadmaps maturity plans or capability development plans is advantageous
- Experience integrating threat intelligence into security systems is advantageous
Responsibilities
- Run day-to-day operational activities for cyber security engineering
- Build operational capacity through planning prioritization delegation and delivery improvements
- Develop capabilities across incident response detection engineering automation and security operations
- Lead coach and support cyber security engineering professionals
- Design develop and implement incident-response playbooks
- Coordinate incident response across multidisciplinary groups
- Assess system design changes and operational risk
- Improve on-call escalation response quality handover and readiness
- Lead reliable maintainable and scalable engineered security solutions
- Guide detection engineering across enterprise and SaaS environments
- Identify security gaps risks and improvement areas and translate them into workable solutions
- Align operational priorities with the wider security vision roadmap and strategy
- Lead cross-functional projects and security improvements
- Partner with engineering infrastructure product and operations functions
Benefits
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Parental leave
- Progressive healthcare options
- Retirement programs
- Education reimbursement
- Commuter offset for specific locations
