Sr. Manager

Senior Manager - Cybersecurity

This is a hybrid position located in Tampa, FL with up to 20% of required travel.

The Senior Manager - Cybersecurity will lead cybersecurity across enterprise IT and defense program environments, combining strong technical expertise with effective people management and a collaborative leadership style. This leader will manage a team responsible for cloud security, infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and endpoint management, while working closely with Engineering leadership and program technical leads to secure development environments, engineering networks, source code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery pathways supporting embedded systems and airborne platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring someone who can evaluate architectures, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and guide technical teams while communicating clearly with executives, program leaders, and business partners. The ideal candidate brings cybersecurity management experience within aerospace, defense, or the Defense Industrial Base, with demonstrated success securing enterprise infrastructure, engineering environments, and the movement of software from development through deployment.

The GCC-High Microsoft technology environment includes CrowdStrike, Zscaler, ThreatLocker, NinjaOne, Microsoft Intune, GitLab, AWS, Azure, and self-hosted AI solutions.

Team Leadership and Strategy

• Lead, mentor, and develop a technical team spanning cloud security, infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and endpoint management.
• Establish clear priorities, accountability, and professional development plans while balancing enterprise needs, program delivery, and available resources.
• Develop and execute a cybersecurity roadmap aligned with business objectives, defense program requirements, and organizational risk.
• Manage cybersecurity initiatives, resource planning, vendor relationships, and associated budgets.
• Communicate cybersecurity risks, priorities, and investment needs in practical terms that support informed decisions.
• Build strong working relationships across IT, Engineering, program management, compliance, and business leadership.

Enterprise Cybersecurity and Core Technologies

• Direct security architecture and operations across cloud platforms, identity systems, networks, servers, and endpoints.
• Oversee the configuration, integration, and effectiveness of CrowdStrike for endpoint protection, threat detection, investigation, and response.
• Guide the use of Zscaler to protect access and traffic across enterprise, cloud, and engineering environments.
• Oversee ThreatLocker application control and privilege management to reduce unauthorized software execution and excessive permissions.
• Lead endpoint configuration, patching, security, and compliance practices using NinjaOne and Microsoft Intune, establishing clear ownership and consistent coverage.
• Direct security architecture across AWS and Azure, including identity and access management, network segmentation, logging, workload protection, and secure configuration.
• Oversee vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation, and validation across Windows, Linux, cloud, and supporting infrastructure.
• Lead incident response coordination, technical investigations, recovery activities, and resulting security improvements.
• Establish meaningful metrics to measure security effectiveness, remediation progress, and operational performance.

Defense Programs and Engineering Environments

• Lead cybersecurity efforts supporting engineering development environments, defense programs, embedded Linux systems, and airborne platforms.
• Partner with Engineering leadership and program technical leads to incorporate cybersecurity throughout the software and systems development, deployment, and sustainment lifecycle.
• Lead the assessment, standardization, and security improvement of development environment connectivity, including engineering workstations, repositories, build systems, test environments, and supporting network pathways.
• Secure the flow of source code and software artifacts from repositories through build pipelines, testing, release, and deployment onto aircraft and other mission platforms.
• Partner with Engineering to secure GitLab repositories, runners, CI/CD pipelines, secrets, dependencies, and software artifacts.
• Establish controls for repository access, build environments, artifact integrity, release authorization, and deployment traceability.
• Identify and reduce cybersecurity risks associated with development workflows, inter environment connectivity, tooling integrations, and software distribution me