Security Engineering Manager Jobs in Texas
Security Engineering Manager jobs in Texas are in strong demand, concentrated in defense contracting, financial services, energy infrastructure, and technology, with openings at every level from newly promoted team lead through senior director. Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio are the primary hiring centers, where employers like Lockheed Martin, Dell Technologies, and USAA maintain large and enduring security engineering teams. The most sought-after specialties are cloud security architecture, application security program management, and operational technology security for critical infrastructure. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Cencora
Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!
Job Details
The Principal Engineer, Cloud Security is responsible for engineering, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise cloud security capabilities across a complex, multinational, multi-cloud technology environment.
The position serves as a senior technical authority for cloud security engineering, cloud-native protection, infrastructure security automation, security posture management, and secure cloud platform integration.
The successful candidate will bring extensive hands-on experience with cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native security services, and enterprise-scale security platform engineering.
This role is critical to accelerating secure cloud adoption, reducing exploitable exposure, improving control effectiveness, and modernizing cybersecurity engineering through automation and scalable platform capabilities.
The Principal Engineer will partner with Cloud Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Defense, IAM, Application Security, and technology teams to embed security into cloud infrastructure and development lifecycles.
Key responsibilities
1. Multi-cloud security engineering — 25%
- Design, engineer, and implement enterprise cloud security capabilities across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Develop reusable security engineering patterns for landing zones, subscriptions, accounts, projects, workloads, and cloud services.
- Engineer controls for cloud network segmentation, workload isolation, secure service connectivity, and internet exposure reduction.
- Implement security guardrails using native cloud controls and enterprise security platforms.
- Partner with cloud platform teams to embed security requirements into standard cloud provisioning and deployment processes.
- Ensure cloud security architectures support resilience, scalability, operational efficiency, and regulatory obligations.
2. Cloud security posture and workload protection — 25%
- Engineer and optimize CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and cloud exposure management capabilities.
- Develop integrations between cloud security platforms, cloud-native services, enterprise asset inventories, and cyber defense technologies.
- Establish continuous visibility into cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity exposures, and attack paths.
- Implement risk-based prioritization of exploitable cloud security findings.
- Develop automated remediation workflows and preventative controls.
- Validate cloud security platform coverage, data quality, control effectiveness, and detection accuracy.
- Engineer protections for containers, Kubernetes, serverless services, virtual machines, and managed cloud workloads.
3. Cloud security automation and DevSecOps — 20%
- Build infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, OPA, or equivalent technologies.
- Develop preventative security guardrails embedded into cloud deployment pipelines.
- Engineer automated security testing, drift detection, configuration validation, and remediation.
- Integrate cloud security controls into GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or equivalent CI/CD environments.
- Develop reusable modules, APIs, and engineering workflows to reduce manual control implementation.
- Improve cloud security engineering reliability through automated testing, version control, observability, and deployment standards.
4. Cloud-native security architecture and integration — 15%
- Engineer solutions leveraging Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS Organizations, Google Security Command Center, and related technologies.
- Develop cloud identity and privileged access security integration patterns with IAM engineering teams.
- Support secure private connectivity, DNS security, ingress/egress protection, and workload communications.
- Engineer cloud security telemetry pipelines to support detection, investigation, and incident response.
- Partner with Application Security to embed workload and software supply chain security requirements.
- Develop integration patterns for M&A cloud environments, newly onboarded platforms, and third-party cloud services.
5. Technical leadership and operational excellence — 15%
- Serve as a principal technical advisor to Cloud Security leadership.
- Establish cloud security engineering standards, reference patterns, technical roadmaps, and reusable capabilities.
- Lead technical investigations involving complex cloud security failures and systemic risks.
- Mentor engineers and influence cloud platform architecture decisions.
- Participate in engineering design reviews and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with global engineering and operational teams to establish sustainable production support models.
- Drive continuous improvements based on control performance, incident learnings, and emerging cloud threats.
Required qualifications
- Typically 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Extensive hands-on engineering experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, including deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud security capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity, workload protection, and cloud-native security services.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, or cloud exposure management.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, or modern cloud-native workloads.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud security issues across infrastructure, identity, networking, and application boundaries.
- Proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions and influence cross-functional engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep Microsoft Azure engineering experience, complemented by practical AWS and GCP knowledge.
- Experience with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Orca Security, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with Azure Policy, AWS Organizations/SCPs, AWS Config, GCP Organization Policy, and cloud-native guardrails.
- Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Control Tower, and Google Cloud Architecture Framework.
- Experience with Kubernetes security, container image scanning, workload identity, and cloud runtime protection.
- Experience with cloud security in regulated multinational environments.
- Understanding of NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and relevant privacy or pharmaceutical regulatory requirements.
- Experience with M&A integration, cloud tenant onboarding, and complex hybrid-cloud architectures.ed.
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full timeEqual Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
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Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services CorporationAbout Cencora
Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!
Job Details
The Principal Engineer, Cloud Security is responsible for engineering, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise cloud security capabilities across a complex, multinational, multi-cloud technology environment.
The position serves as a senior technical authority for cloud security engineering, cloud-native protection, infrastructure security automation, security posture management, and secure cloud platform integration.
The successful candidate will bring extensive hands-on experience with cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native security services, and enterprise-scale security platform engineering.
This role is critical to accelerating secure cloud adoption, reducing exploitable exposure, improving control effectiveness, and modernizing cybersecurity engineering through automation and scalable platform capabilities.
The Principal Engineer will partner with Cloud Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Defense, IAM, Application Security, and technology teams to embed security into cloud infrastructure and development lifecycles.
Key responsibilities
1. Multi-cloud security engineering — 25%
- Design, engineer, and implement enterprise cloud security capabilities across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Develop reusable security engineering patterns for landing zones, subscriptions, accounts, projects, workloads, and cloud services.
- Engineer controls for cloud network segmentation, workload isolation, secure service connectivity, and internet exposure reduction.
- Implement security guardrails using native cloud controls and enterprise security platforms.
- Partner with cloud platform teams to embed security requirements into standard cloud provisioning and deployment processes.
- Ensure cloud security architectures support resilience, scalability, operational efficiency, and regulatory obligations.
2. Cloud security posture and workload protection — 25%
- Engineer and optimize CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and cloud exposure management capabilities.
- Develop integrations between cloud security platforms, cloud-native services, enterprise asset inventories, and cyber defense technologies.
- Establish continuous visibility into cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity exposures, and attack paths.
- Implement risk-based prioritization of exploitable cloud security findings.
- Develop automated remediation workflows and preventative controls.
- Validate cloud security platform coverage, data quality, control effectiveness, and detection accuracy.
- Engineer protections for containers, Kubernetes, serverless services, virtual machines, and managed cloud workloads.
3. Cloud security automation and DevSecOps — 20%
- Build infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, OPA, or equivalent technologies.
- Develop preventative security guardrails embedded into cloud deployment pipelines.
- Engineer automated security testing, drift detection, configuration validation, and remediation.
- Integrate cloud security controls into GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or equivalent CI/CD environments.
- Develop reusable modules, APIs, and engineering workflows to reduce manual control implementation.
- Improve cloud security engineering reliability through automated testing, version control, observability, and deployment standards.
4. Cloud-native security architecture and integration — 15%
- Engineer solutions leveraging Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, AWS Organizations, Google Security Command Center, and related technologies.
- Develop cloud identity and privileged access security integration patterns with IAM engineering teams.
- Support secure private connectivity, DNS security, ingress/egress protection, and workload communications.
- Engineer cloud security telemetry pipelines to support detection, investigation, and incident response.
- Partner with Application Security to embed workload and software supply chain security requirements.
- Develop integration patterns for M&A cloud environments, newly onboarded platforms, and third-party cloud services.
5. Technical leadership and operational excellence — 15%
- Serve as a principal technical advisor to Cloud Security leadership.
- Establish cloud security engineering standards, reference patterns, technical roadmaps, and reusable capabilities.
- Lead technical investigations involving complex cloud security failures and systemic risks.
- Mentor engineers and influence cloud platform architecture decisions.
- Participate in engineering design reviews and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with global engineering and operational teams to establish sustainable production support models.
- Drive continuous improvements based on control performance, incident learnings, and emerging cloud threats.
Required qualifications
- Typically 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Extensive hands-on engineering experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, including deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise cloud security capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, identity, workload protection, and cloud-native security services.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Python, PowerShell, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, or cloud exposure management.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, or modern cloud-native workloads.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud security issues across infrastructure, identity, networking, and application boundaries.
- Proven ability to deliver production-grade solutions and influence cross-functional engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep Microsoft Azure engineering experience, complemented by practical AWS and GCP knowledge.
- Experience with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Orca Security, or comparable platforms.
- Experience with Azure Policy, AWS Organizations/SCPs, AWS Config, GCP Organization Policy, and cloud-native guardrails.
- Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Control Tower, and Google Cloud Architecture Framework.
- Experience with Kubernetes security, container image scanning, workload identity, and cloud runtime protection.
- Experience with cloud security in regulated multinational environments.
- Understanding of NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, HITRUST, and relevant privacy or pharmaceutical regulatory requirements.
- Experience with M&A integration, cloud tenant onboarding, and complex hybrid-cloud architectures.ed.
What Cencora offers
We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full timeEqual Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
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What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in security engineering manager jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related engineering field
- Active CISSP or CISM certification required or strongly preferred by most Texas employers
- Five or more years of hands-on security engineering experience before moving into management
- Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring security engineering teams of five or more
- Deep familiarity with cloud security frameworks such as NIST, CIS Controls, or SOC 2
- Experience securing industrial control systems or OT environments valued by Texas energy employers
Security Engineering Manager Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a security engineering manager in Texas?
The most direct path is building several years of hands-on security engineering experience and then earning a management-track certification such as the CISSP or CISM, both of which Texas employers consistently require at the managerial level. Texas does not issue a state-specific license for security engineering managers, so hiring decisions center on certifications, a bachelor's degree in computer science or information security, and a verifiable record of leading technical security projects.
How much do security engineering managers make in Texas?
Security engineering managers in Texas earn a median of about $111,530 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $55,480 for the lowest 10% to over $174,300 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire security engineering managers in Texas?
Employers hiring security engineering managers in Texas right now include Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Bot Auto, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Texas's concentration of defense contractors, financial institutions, and energy companies means demand is spread across multiple industries rather than clustering in a single sector.
Which Texas cities have the most security engineering manager jobs?
Austin, Grand Prairie, and Dallas hold the most security engineering manager openings in Texas. Austin's dense technology company base drives volume there, Dallas concentrates financial services and corporate headquarters security programs, and San Antonio benefits from a large military and federal contractor presence at Joint Base San Antonio that sustains steady demand for senior security leadership.
Are there remote security engineering manager jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than many technical management roles, because security program oversight, policy development, and vendor management translate well to distributed work. About 57% of security engineering manager openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though roles involving on-premises infrastructure or classified government contracts are typically on-site. Cloud security and governance-focused positions offer the most flexibility.
How can I get hired as a security engineering manager in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a senior individual-contributor security engineer role first, then stepping into a team lead position within the same employer. Large Texas employers like Raytheon, AT&T, and major financial institutions headquartered in Dallas regularly promote from within and run rotational or associate security programs for high-potential engineers. Earning a CISSP or completing a recognized security leadership course before applying strengthens a candidate's case considerably.
Where can I find and apply to security engineering manager jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to security engineering manager jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings across the state's major hiring metros and industries. Find roles that fit your experience and specialization and apply directly to each one.
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