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Job Description: We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you — offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day. We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead and evolve our security engineering function within a growing financial risk and advisory SaaS business. This role is ideal for an engineering-first leader who thrives in a hands-on environment and is motivated to build, scale, and mature security capabilities in a cloud-native platform. You will lead a small but growing team, while remaining deeply technical—designing and implementing security controls across cloud infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines. You will play a critical role in strengthening our security posture, ensuring compliance with SOC 2 requirements, and enabling engineering teams to build securely at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow the Security Engineering function, starting as a player-coach and scaling the team over time
- Design, build, and implement security controls across Azure-based cloud infrastructure, containerized environments, and .NET applications
- Establish and mature cloud security and application security practices, including secure architecture patterns and threat modeling
- Secure the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
- Own and manage third-party penetration testing, including vendor coordination, scope definition, and remediation tracking
- Develop and deliver secure coding training and guidance to engineering teams, driving adoption of best practices
- Build and maintain auditable security controls aligned with SOC 2 requirements, partner closely with internal stakeholders and external auditors
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, DevOps, and Compliance to embed security into the development and delivery process
- Evaluate, implement, and operate security tooling, with a focus on automation and scalability (shifting from building to optimizing over time)
- Implement and manage cloud security scanning and posture management, including continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and drift across Azure environments
- Identify and address emerging risks related to AI/LLM usage, including vulnerability management, secure integration practices, and guidance for engineering teams adopting AI capabilities
- Remain hands-on—able to dive into technical challenges, review architecture, and contribute directly when needed
What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)
- Strengthened and matured cloud and application security practices across the organization
- Implemented robust policy scanning and vulnerability management practices
- Implemented effective security controls within CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
- Established and maintained robust, auditable controls aligned to SOC 2 requirements
What You Bring
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong foundation in software or cloud engineering
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers, with a desire to build and scale a team
- Deep hands-on expertise in cloud security (Azure required; AWS familiarity preferred)
- Experience securing modern application stacks, including .NET applications and containerized environments
- Strong understanding of application security principles, including secure coding practices, threat modeling, and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
- Familiarity with SOC 2 controls, including designing and implementing auditable technical controls and working with auditors
- Experience managing or working with third-party penetration testing vendors
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to operate both strategically and tactically
- Experience with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, container scanning, and cloud security posture management (CSPM)
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, particularly in working with engineering teams
For Denver based candidates, the compensation range for the position is expected to be between $155,000 and $180,000 annually. Total compensation, including base pay, discretionary individual bonus and company bonus, may be higher than range listed, depending on applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, 401k, EAP, paid holidays and paid time off.
About Chatham Financial
Chatham Financial is the leading independent capital markets advisor, delivering an integrated blend of expert advice and powerful technology to help you reduce risk and seize opportunity. With decades of capital markets strategy, execution, monitoring, and performance expertise, we serve as an unwavering advocate for your best interests and your innovation partner. Our technology platform unifies data across assets, debt, and derivatives, giving you unmatched agility, transparency, and insight.
It’s clear ahead.
Our commitment is to carry that light forward in every partnership, every solution, and every market we serve. We help guide the way—giving clients the insight and momentum to move forward with confidence, no matter what lies ahead.
Overview
Job Description: We don’t simply hire employees. We invest in them. When you work at Chatham, we empower you — offering professional development opportunities to help you grow in your career, no matter if you've been here for five months or 15 years. Chatham has worked hard to create a distinct work environment that values people, teamwork, integrity, and client service. You will have immediate opportunities to partner with talented subject matter experts, work on complex projects, and contribute to the value Chatham delivers every day. We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead and evolve our security engineering function within a growing financial risk and advisory SaaS business. This role is ideal for an engineering-first leader who thrives in a hands-on environment and is motivated to build, scale, and mature security capabilities in a cloud-native platform. You will lead a small but growing team, while remaining deeply technical—designing and implementing security controls across cloud infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD pipelines. You will play a critical role in strengthening our security posture, ensuring compliance with SOC 2 requirements, and enabling engineering teams to build securely at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow the Security Engineering function, starting as a player-coach and scaling the team over time
- Design, build, and implement security controls across Azure-based cloud infrastructure, containerized environments, and .NET applications
- Establish and mature cloud security and application security practices, including secure architecture patterns and threat modeling
- Secure the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
- Own and manage third-party penetration testing, including vendor coordination, scope definition, and remediation tracking
- Develop and deliver secure coding training and guidance to engineering teams, driving adoption of best practices
- Build and maintain auditable security controls aligned with SOC 2 requirements, partner closely with internal stakeholders and external auditors
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, DevOps, and Compliance to embed security into the development and delivery process
- Evaluate, implement, and operate security tooling, with a focus on automation and scalability (shifting from building to optimizing over time)
- Implement and manage cloud security scanning and posture management, including continuous monitoring for misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and drift across Azure environments
- Identify and address emerging risks related to AI/LLM usage, including vulnerability management, secure integration practices, and guidance for engineering teams adopting AI capabilities
- Remain hands-on—able to dive into technical challenges, review architecture, and contribute directly when needed
What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)
- Strengthened and matured cloud and application security practices across the organization
- Implemented robust policy scanning and vulnerability management practices
- Implemented effective security controls within CI/CD pipelines and development workflows
- Established and maintained robust, auditable controls aligned to SOC 2 requirements
What You Bring
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong foundation in software or cloud engineering
- Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers, with a desire to build and scale a team
- Deep hands-on expertise in cloud security (Azure required; AWS familiarity preferred)
- Experience securing modern application stacks, including .NET applications and containerized environments
- Strong understanding of application security principles, including secure coding practices, threat modeling, and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
- Familiarity with SOC 2 controls, including designing and implementing auditable technical controls and working with auditors
- Experience managing or working with third-party penetration testing vendors
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to operate both strategically and tactically
- Experience with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, container scanning, and cloud security posture management (CSPM)
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, particularly in working with engineering teams
For Denver based candidates, the compensation range for the position is expected to be between $155,000 and $180,000 annually. Total compensation, including base pay, discretionary individual bonus and company bonus, may be higher than range listed, depending on applicant’s skills, qualifications, and experience. Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, 401k, EAP, paid holidays and paid time off.
About Chatham Financial
Chatham Financial is the leading independent capital markets advisor, delivering an integrated blend of expert advice and powerful technology to help you reduce risk and seize opportunity. With decades of capital markets strategy, execution, monitoring, and performance expertise, we serve as an unwavering advocate for your best interests and your innovation partner. Our technology platform unifies data across assets, debt, and derivatives, giving you unmatched agility, transparency, and insight.
It’s clear ahead.
Our commitment is to carry that light forward in every partnership, every solution, and every market we serve. We help guide the way—giving clients the insight and momentum to move forward with confidence, no matter what lies ahead.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Boston Consulting19
- Apple11
- Amazon8
- CAMP Systems International6
- Databricks5
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software92
- Consulting & Professional Services45
- Electronics & Hardware18
- Banking & Financial Services16
- Science & Research13
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 Boston Consulting, Apple, and Amazon, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Massachusetts, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 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 36% of security engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 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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