Manager, Cyber Security

About Ping Identity:

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.

Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.

While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management.

As a Ping Cyber Security Manager, you will be responsible for Running the day-to-day operational delivery of the Cyber Security Engineering team. You will help ensure the team has the capacity, structure, processes, and capabilities needed to protect our enterprise systems, including our Software-as-a-Service business areas. This role will take ownership of operational coordination, team execution, incident readiness, prioritisation, on-call operations, and continuous improvement across CSE.

You will provide direction across incident response, security automation, detection engineering, secure configuration, and operational security improvements. This role requires a strong technical background, proven Incident Response experience, sound operational judgement, and the ability to turn security priorities into sustainable ways of working for the team.

This role would be well suited to an experienced security leader with a background in Security Operations, Security Engineering, Incident Response, or Site Reliability Engineering who is looking to manage and mature a high-performing cyber security engineering function.

You will:

Run and coordinate the day-to-day operational activities of the Cyber Security Engineering team

Build operational capacity across the team by improving planning, prioritisation, delegation, and delivery practices

Develop and mature team capabilities across incident response, detection engineering, automation, and security operations

Lead, coach, and support members of the Cyber Security Engineering team

Run and mature incident response processes, including the design, development, and implementation of incident response playbooks

Support incident response coordination across multi-disciplinary teams

Provide technical and operational leadership in the assessment of system design, change, and operational risk

Participate in and improve the team’s weekly on-call rotation, including escalation, response quality, handover, and operational readiness

Lead the design, development, and implementation of engineered security solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable

Guide and support detection engineering activities across enterprise and SaaS environments

Identify operational gaps, risks, and areas of the business that require security improvement, then translate them into clear, workable solutions

Influence and align the team’s operational priorities with the wider CSE vision, roadmap, and strategy

Collaborate cross-functionally to support delivery of roadmap items, projects, and security improvements

Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and operations teams to improve security outcomes across Ping

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