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Viasat · 7 hours ago

Director, Security Systems Engineering

Rhode Island, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$204K/yr - $323K/yr

5+ years exp

Viasat is a global communications company on a mission to change the world through connectivity. They are seeking a Security Systems Engineering Lead to ensure a unified engineering approach across security teams while collaborating with the Corporate CISO organization on security standards and strategies.

InternetOptical CommunicationTelecommunications

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Understand the latest challenges within satellite communications security ecosystem, as well as threats to space systems, including key mitigations that can be undertaken to prevent vulnerability to these threats

Define, maintain, and enforce a consistent engineering approach, standards, and best practices for all security systems engineers embedded within domain-specific teams

Serve as the primary technical liaison between domain engineering teams and the Corporate CISO organization, ensuring alignment on security policies, architectures, and risk management practices

Participate in enterprise security architecture discussions and translate outcomes into domain and project-specific engineering requirements and repeatable patterns

Provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, developing, and validating secure system architectures, communications networks, and security controls

Guide the implementation of secure network design, segmentation strategies, encryption mechanisms, identity and access controls, and monitoring systems

Conduct technical reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments across multiple engineering teams

Support the development of secure-by-design frameworks and automation to improve security posture at scale

Mentor and develop security systems engineers across multiple teams, providing guidance, training, and technical oversight

Build and maintain reusable security design templates, configuration standards, and reference architectures

Support onboarding, knowledge sharing, and capability building for engineers performing security-critical work

Partner with Viasat's CSOC organization to develop a strong list of monitoring requirements / patterns as part of the standard expectations across each product or service domain

Ensure consistent adherence to corporate cybersecurity policies, compliance frameworks, and risk management processes

Partner with CISO functions to ensure accurate reporting of risks, issues, and mitigations from within the domain

Assess toolsets, platform capabilities, and processes to identify opportunities for enhancement and standardization

Qualification

Security engineeringSatellite communicationsCybersecurity controlsThreat modelingNetwork security architectureEnterprise security toolsLeadership experienceCommunicationCross-functional collaboration