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We Are:
At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.
You Are:
You are a highly skilled and experienced Privileged Access Management (PAM) leader who is passionate about securing critical systems, identities, and privileged accounts in an increasingly complex threat landscape. You understand that identities are the new security perimeter and have extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) programs.
You have deep expertise with industry-leading PAM, identity governance, secrets management, and privileged session management platforms, ensuring privileged accounts, service accounts, credentials, and secrets are effectively governed, monitored, and protected across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
You thrive in environments where automation, scalability, and security are equally important. You have hands-on experience developing scripts and automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and orchestration frameworks to streamline onboarding, access reviews, privileged account lifecycle management, credential rotation, and compliance reporting.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Designing and implementing enterprise-wide Privileged Access Management strategies and roadmaps aligned with security and compliance requirements.
- Architecting, deploying, and managing Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), secrets management, and privileged session management platforms across global environments.
- Configuring and optimizing privileged account onboarding, credential vaulting, password rotation, session monitoring, session recording, and privileged access workflows.
- Developing automated workflows for account provisioning, deprovisioning, access certification, entitlement reviews, and privileged access governance.
- Integrating PAM and identity security platforms with enterprise directories, cloud environments, infrastructure platforms, DevOps tools, ITSM solutions, and business applications.
- Designing and managing enterprise secrets management capabilities for applications, service accounts, privileged credentials, APIs, and automation platforms.
- Building scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, JSON, and orchestration tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Conducting privileged access assessments, identifying security gaps, and implementing remediation strategies.
- Supporting Identity Governance initiatives, including role-based access controls, access reviews, joiner-mover-leaver processes, and segregation of duties controls.
- Partnering with security operations, cloud, infrastructure, audit, compliance, and application teams to ensure effective privileged access controls.
- Leading PAM-related audits and providing evidence for SOX, ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements.
- Developing PAM standards, policies, procedures, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Monitoring platform health, performance, and security while driving continuous improvement and modernization initiatives.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Safeguard Synopsys’ most sensitive data and intellectual property against advanced cyber threats and nation-state actors.
- Ensure compliance with a rapidly evolving landscape of regulations and standards, maintaining Synopsys’ status as a trusted partner.
- Mitigate systemic risks across global supply chains and minimize the potential for cascading breaches in interconnected environments.
- Leverage AI and automation to stay ahead of sophisticated attacks, driving innovation in defensive capabilities.
- Provide strategic leadership and mentorship to build a proactive, resilient cybersecurity team.
- Enable business agility by integrating security seamlessly into operations, supporting Synopsys’ continued growth and technological leadership.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance, or Privileged Access Management (PAM), including at least 2 years in a senior or lead engineering role.
- Hands-on experience implementing and supporting Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms, Secrets Management solutions, and Identity Lifecycle Management processes.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Least Privilege Principles, Segregation of Duties (SoD), and Authentication and Authorization Frameworks.
- Experience integrating identity security platforms with enterprise applications, cloud providers, security tooling, and directory services.
- Advanced scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and Workflow Automation Platforms.
- Experience supporting hybrid and cloud environments, including public cloud and SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with authentication protocols and identity standards such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP, Kerberos, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
- Strong understanding of NIST, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, Zero Trust, and identity security best practices.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC, Microsoft Security Certifications, or vendor-specific certifications are a plus (or willingness to obtain).
Who You Are:
- Strategic, analytical thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent communicator, able to articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative, inclusive leader with a passion for mentorship and team development.
- Adaptable, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous learning in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
- Highly ethical, trustworthy, and dedicated to protecting sensitive information and organizational integrity.
The Team You’ll Be A Part Of:
You will join Synopsys' Data & Identity Security Engineering team, a highly skilled group of security professionals focused on protecting the company's intellectual property, sensitive information, and critical business systems. The team is responsible for advancing enterprise data protection strategies, implementing industry-leading security technologies, and enabling secure collaboration across a global workforce.
Collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to excellence define the team's culture. Your expertise will directly contribute to strengthening Synopsys' data security posture and supporting the company's leadership in secure technology solutions.
Rewards and Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
We Are:
At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.
You Are:
You are a highly skilled and experienced Privileged Access Management (PAM) leader who is passionate about securing critical systems, identities, and privileged accounts in an increasingly complex threat landscape. You understand that identities are the new security perimeter and have extensive experience designing and operating enterprise-scale Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) programs.
You have deep expertise with industry-leading PAM, identity governance, secrets management, and privileged session management platforms, ensuring privileged accounts, service accounts, credentials, and secrets are effectively governed, monitored, and protected across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
You thrive in environments where automation, scalability, and security are equally important. You have hands-on experience developing scripts and automation solutions using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and orchestration frameworks to streamline onboarding, access reviews, privileged account lifecycle management, credential rotation, and compliance reporting.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Designing and implementing enterprise-wide Privileged Access Management strategies and roadmaps aligned with security and compliance requirements.
- Architecting, deploying, and managing Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), secrets management, and privileged session management platforms across global environments.
- Configuring and optimizing privileged account onboarding, credential vaulting, password rotation, session monitoring, session recording, and privileged access workflows.
- Developing automated workflows for account provisioning, deprovisioning, access certification, entitlement reviews, and privileged access governance.
- Integrating PAM and identity security platforms with enterprise directories, cloud environments, infrastructure platforms, DevOps tools, ITSM solutions, and business applications.
- Designing and managing enterprise secrets management capabilities for applications, service accounts, privileged credentials, APIs, and automation platforms.
- Building scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, JSON, and orchestration tools to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Conducting privileged access assessments, identifying security gaps, and implementing remediation strategies.
- Supporting Identity Governance initiatives, including role-based access controls, access reviews, joiner-mover-leaver processes, and segregation of duties controls.
- Partnering with security operations, cloud, infrastructure, audit, compliance, and application teams to ensure effective privileged access controls.
- Leading PAM-related audits and providing evidence for SOX, ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements.
- Developing PAM standards, policies, procedures, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Monitoring platform health, performance, and security while driving continuous improvement and modernization initiatives.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Safeguard Synopsys’ most sensitive data and intellectual property against advanced cyber threats and nation-state actors.
- Ensure compliance with a rapidly evolving landscape of regulations and standards, maintaining Synopsys’ status as a trusted partner.
- Mitigate systemic risks across global supply chains and minimize the potential for cascading breaches in interconnected environments.
- Leverage AI and automation to stay ahead of sophisticated attacks, driving innovation in defensive capabilities.
- Provide strategic leadership and mentorship to build a proactive, resilient cybersecurity team.
- Enable business agility by integrating security seamlessly into operations, supporting Synopsys’ continued growth and technological leadership.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Identity Governance, or Privileged Access Management (PAM), including at least 2 years in a senior or lead engineering role.
- Hands-on experience implementing and supporting Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) platforms, Secrets Management solutions, and Identity Lifecycle Management processes.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust Architecture, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Least Privilege Principles, Segregation of Duties (SoD), and Authentication and Authorization Frameworks.
- Experience integrating identity security platforms with enterprise applications, cloud providers, security tooling, and directory services.
- Advanced scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, and Workflow Automation Platforms.
- Experience supporting hybrid and cloud environments, including public cloud and SaaS platforms.
- Familiarity with authentication protocols and identity standards such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP, Kerberos, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
- Strong understanding of NIST, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, Zero Trust, and identity security best practices.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC, Microsoft Security Certifications, or vendor-specific certifications are a plus (or willingness to obtain).
Who You Are:
- Strategic, analytical thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent communicator, able to articulate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative, inclusive leader with a passion for mentorship and team development.
- Adaptable, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous learning in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.
- Highly ethical, trustworthy, and dedicated to protecting sensitive information and organizational integrity.
The Team You’ll Be A Part Of:
You will join Synopsys' Data & Identity Security Engineering team, a highly skilled group of security professionals focused on protecting the company's intellectual property, sensitive information, and critical business systems. The team is responsible for advancing enterprise data protection strategies, implementing industry-leading security technologies, and enabling secure collaboration across a global workforce.
Collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to excellence define the team's culture. Your expertise will directly contribute to strengthening Synopsys' data security posture and supporting the company's leadership in secure technology solutions.
Rewards and Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.
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- Amazon18
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security engineering manager jobs.
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering with at least 2 years in a people management role
- Deep expertise in cloud security across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud platforms
- Experience designing and running a secure software development lifecycle program
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or cloud security credentials preferred
- Proficiency with threat modeling, vulnerability management tools, and SIEM platforms
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Security Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify your security program impact
Hiring managers want to see scope, not just titles. Rewrite your resume bullets to show team size, budget owned, vulnerabilities remediated at scale, or risk reduction outcomes you drove, not just the frameworks you implemented or tools you evaluated.
Highlight cross-functional leadership experience
Security engineering managers are judged on how well they work with engineering, product, and compliance teams. Your resume should name the stakeholders you influenced and the cross-team projects you shipped, not just internal security wins.
Filter openings by the security domain you lead
Cloud security, AppSec, and detection engineering each require different technical depth. Search by those sub-domains rather than by the title alone so you find roles where your specific expertise is the core requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists security engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for the engineering manager split
Interviews for this role split between security depth and people management. Expect at least one round on how you build and retain a security team, run hiring loops, and handle underperformance, alongside technical design questions on threat modeling or secure architecture.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Before your offer call, clarify team size, reporting structure, and whether the role owns a product security roadmap or supports one. Those structural differences determine your actual influence and your path to a director title, so settle them before you accept.
Security Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most security engineering managers?
The companies hiring the most security engineering managers right now include Amazon, Apple, and Amazon Web Services, with the largest share of openings in California, Washington, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Financial services and large cloud platform companies consistently account for a significant portion of active openings.
How many security engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 61% of security engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more flexible management roles in engineering. Cloud security and application security sub-disciplines tend to have the highest share of remote positions, while roles tied to on-premises infrastructure or classified environments are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a security engineering manager?
Start by building deep technical credibility as a security engineer, ideally across cloud, application, or detection engineering. Take on informal leadership by mentoring peers, leading incident response efforts, or owning a security initiative end to end. Then move into a formal team lead or tech lead role before stepping into a full management position. Pursuing a certification like CISSP or CISM signals readiness for the organizational side of the role.
Can you get hired as a security engineering manager without prior management experience?
Yes, but you need to demonstrate leadership in other forms. Employers will accept candidates who have led security projects across engineering teams, run hiring panels, or built a security function from scratch, even without a direct reports line on their resume. Frame any mentorship, cross-team coordination, or program ownership you have owned as evidence of management readiness, and target companies that promote from senior individual contributor roles.
What does the security engineering manager interview process look like?
Most processes run four to six rounds. Expect an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on your leadership philosophy and team-building approach, a technical design round covering topics like threat modeling or secure architecture, a behavioral panel with engineering and product partners, and a final loop with a senior security or engineering leader. Some companies add a written exercise asking you to assess a security program gap and propose a remediation roadmap.
Where can I find and apply to security engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to security engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one that fits.
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