Senior Security Engineer

Build a Career That Builds Your Future — with PulteGroup

Welcome to PulteGroup where we believe in building more than just homes—we believe in building inspired employees, meaningful careers, and a legacy of excellence. If you're looking for work that moves you, a team that values your ideas, and a company that brings you pride, you've come to the right place.

As one of the nation's largest and most respected homebuilders, PulteGroup offers opportunities to grow within a Fortune 500 company that's consistently recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For and a certified Great Place to Work. We're driven by the bold purpose of Building Incredible Places for People to Live Their Dreams.

For over 70 years, we've been building more than homes—we've been building trust, innovation, and a culture where every team member is empowered to thrive. Join a company that champions inclusion, celebrates diversity, and supports your personal and professional journey.

Headquartered in vibrant Atlanta, Georgia, and operating in over 45 markets nationwide, we're proud to build homes through our trusted family of brands—including Innovative Construction Group, Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes, American West, and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, Pulte Mortgage, PGP Title, Pulte Insurance Agency —all united under the PulteGroup name.

Apply now and discover a career where your contributions are valued, your growth is supported, and your work makes a lasting impact

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing robust security measures that not only protect the organization's digital assets but also align with and support the achievement of business goals. Maintains complex security controls, systems, tools, and services in accordance with best practices to protect from cyber threats. Leads team initiatives while simultaneously collaborating with others in multiple IT and security project implementations. Has an advanced knowledge in cybersecurity concepts, frameworks, practices, and procedures and can jump in when needed for escalated incident response. Considers the current and future information security risk environment and brings enterprise level perspective to the design and implementation of security solutions.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Contributes to the planning, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the company's information security strategy.
• Identifies potential security risks and vulnerabilities and develops strategies to mitigate those risks.
• Takes a lead role to scope, design, test and deploy the most complex security software, tools, and services including cloud security, vulnerability management, email security, security information and event monitoring (SIEM) tools, and endpoint protection.
• Stays up to date with emerging threats and technologies in the field of cybersecurity and applies knowledge gained to improve the organization's security posture.
• Uses expert knowledge of attack techniques to develop and implement detection capabilities for indicators of compromise; correlates data to build effective SIEM alerts.
• Proactively and independently researches and implements system hardening procedures.
• Configures advanced security policies that work within PulteGroup's security framework.
• Collaborates with other IT teams to evaluate and recommend security solutions that fit within the enterprise architecture strategy.
• Administers, maintains, and optimizes complex security software and services, performing upgrades when appropriate.
• Performs forensic analysis and escalation for identified threats.
• Evaluates threat intelligence, assesses risk to the company, and determines best course of action.
• Leads vulnerability assessments and remediates as necessary.
• Participates in on-call support when necessary.
• Leads internal initiatives for the implementation, use, and improvement of processes, procedures, guidelines, and metrics for security systems.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Organizational Impact:

• Works to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on operational results within area of work. Works independently under limited supervision.
• May be responsible for entire projects or processes within area.
• Typically responsible for coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level professionals.

Leadership & Talent Management:

• May be responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees within functional area.
• May manage projects at this level, requiring responsibility for the delegation of work and the review of others' work product.

Required Education & Experience:

• Requires broad knowledge of area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• May have practical knowledge of program or project management.
• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED) required.
• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 4-6 years of prior relevant experience.

Required Skills:

• Advanced Cloud Security concepts, tools, and policies
• Identity and Access Management
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Security Orchestration and Automation
• Endpoint Protection tools
• Zero Trust, Next Gen Firewalls, Network security & IPS
• Data security and encryption, DLP
• PCI-DSS
• Cybersecurity Frameworks (NIST, ISO)
• Privileged Access Management
• Vulnerability Management

Required Licensing, Registration and/or Certifications

• CISSP preferred

Physical Requirements:

• May require occasional travel

Salary Range: $140k-$180k annually depending on experience.

This position is also eligible for an annual bonus based on the successful completion of defined performance objectives.

In addition to up to 9 paid company holidays per year, employees are eligible for up to 6 days of sick pay. Moreover, eligible employees with less than 10 years of service can accrue up to 17 PTO days per year (and up to 22 PTO days per year upon 10 or more years of service).

Employees are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Plan. Employees (and their eligible dependents) are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. Employees are covered by company-paid disability, basic life insurance and parental leave. Voluntary insurance coverage options, including critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity, are also available. In addition, the Company offers an Employee Assistance Program and tuition reimbursement (as applicable). Employees may also be eligible for state required benefits such as paid family and medical leave insurance and/or paid sick time as applicable.

PulteGroup, Inc. and its affiliates do not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies (collectively, "Recruiters") in response to job postings. If Recruiters nevertheless submit one or more unsolicited resumes to any employee at PulteGroup, Inc. or its affiliates without a valid written agreement in place for this position, it will be deemed the sole property of PulteGroup, Inc. and its affiliates. No fee will be owing or paid to Recruiters who submit unsolicited candidates, in the event the candidate is hired by PulteGroup, Inc. or its affiliates as a result of the referral, without a written agreement between PulteGroup, Inc. and through any means other than via our Applicant Tracking System.

We are an

equal opportunity employer

and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will provide a reasonable accommodation to a qualified applicant with a disability that will enable the individual to have an equal opportunity to participate in the application process and to be considered for a job.

This Organization Participates in e-Verify

Pulte Homes of Minnesota is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer.

California Privacy Policy