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General Information

Location

Cary, North Carolina

Working Schedule

Full-Time

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Travel Required

10%

Relocation Assistance Available

No

Grade

11T

Posted Date

05-Nov-2026

Job ID

21255

Description and Requirements

The Team You Will Join

As part of MetLife’s Global Security team, you’ll work alongside world-class experts to protect MetLife, our customers and our colleagues. The team is responsible for managing cybersecurity, IT risks and vulnerabilities, physical security, and more. In this fast-paced, mission-driven environment, you’ll join outstanding teammates to expand your skills, collaborate across the organization and implement innovative approaches to safeguard MetLife when it matters most. Ready to make an impact? Join us if you want to embrace the rapidly evolving environment and use transformative technology to integrate and build security into the foundation of key initiatives across MetLife.

The Opportunity

The Cyber Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise security solutions within MetLife’s environment. This hands-on role partners with cross-functional teams to ensure security platforms are effectively engineered, integrated, and operated in alignment with MetLife’s security policies and regulatory obligations.

The candidate will identify and implement opportunities to strengthen security capabilities, troubleshoot complex issues, and improve the automation, integration, reliability, and operational maturity of MetLife’s security platforms across a complex global environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement enterprise security platform solutions that strengthen MetLife’s security posture and improve operational effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain scripts, integrations, and automated workflows to reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and increase the scalability and reliability of security operations.
• Evaluate and apply AI and emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities, accelerate security workflows, and identify opportunities for intelligent automation.
• Lead technical implementations, upgrades, change management, documentation, and lifecycle activities in collaboration with global and cross-functional teams.
• Provide advanced technical support and troubleshooting for complex security platform issues and business-impacting incidents, serving as a senior escalation resource.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in IT security engineering, platform engineering, or security architecture within a complex enterprise environment, including experience implementing and supporting enterprise security technologies.
• Demonstrated scripting and automation experience using languages such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash to automate security engineering and operational workflows.
• Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues across security platforms, infrastructure, endpoints, networks, or cloud environments, including working within formal change management processes.
• Demonstrated AI fluency, including the ability to effectively use AI-assisted technologies to improve engineering, automation, troubleshooting, analysis, and operational workflows while applying appropriate security and data-handling practices.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and partner effectively with technical and cross-functional teams in a global enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or similar are a plus.
• Experience with enterprise security platforms, cloud technologies, DevOps/DevSecOps practices, APIs, scripting, and security automation in a large-scale or global environment.
• Experience applying AI, machine learning, or AI-assisted development and automation capabilities to security engineering, platform operations, or cybersecurity workflows.

Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

The expected salary range for this position is $100,000 - $125,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Benefits We Offer

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.

Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!

MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”).

If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.

MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.