Director, Security Engineering

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Global Information Security (GIS) group provides services to protect the value and use of Disney’s information through collaboration, standardization, enforcement, and education across The Walt Disney Company.  The main focus areas of this group are:

• Reduce the risk of both accidental and malicious data disclosure
• Identify, monitor, engage with complete inventory of information
• Establish appropriate policies and procedures to be followed
• Educate user community to minimize risk

The Director of Security Product Engineering within the Security Architecture & Engineering team leads team members to streamline delivery, improve quality and reduce costs of support for our cybersecurity solutions. Our North Star is to build and integration cybersecurity solutions that empower our GIS partners and business segments to secure the business thru a consistent SDLC approach and be future ready without stifling teams’ ability to be autonomous. When we do our job correctly, we make it easier to deliver high quality cybersecurity solutions that secure our guests and cast members. In addition, a director is expected to lead projects, grow leaders, define strategy and drive change.

This is a leadership role, but we are looking for someone who is an engineer at heart. Willingness to learn new technologies and help improve our organization is essential for success on this team because one day we are integrating a SaaS solution to existing data and reporting systems, the next we are designing and creating a new product or API endpoint.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrating the development and management of a high-performing team comprising managers, product experts, and software engineers.
• Assuming executive leadership responsibilities including technical leadership, software engineering, and agile project management.
• Understanding requirements, delivering unified solutions, and simplifying product portfolio
• Overseeing design engineering, automation, and COTS/SaaS product integration efforts.
• Conducting problem analysis, prioritizing customer service, and optimizing processes.
• Fostering collaboration among team members to seamlessly integrate expertise across various domains.
• Delivering innovative security solutions tailored to meet evolving industry needs.
• Setting vision and leading the design and engineering of cybersecurity solutions and products for The Walt Disney Company.
• Operating, maintaining, and engineering software products with close business segment alignment.
• Ensuring efficient, effective, and resilient architectures built on well-defined SDLC processes.
• Documenting processes and engaging stakeholders.
• Performing sprint/release planning and code reviews
• Understanding networking, on-premises and cloud platforms, services, and technologies.
• Assuming operational responsibility and sustainment of platforms.
• Engaging with customers via support channels on cybersecurity solutions.
• Driving delivery of products and fostering a business-enabling DevOps culture.
• Be able to lead and work collaboratively with local and remote team member

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of related work experience
• Experience leading engineering teams responsible for building and deploying custom software products or services
• Experience as a software engineer or in product management
• Experience with on-premises and legacy systems, including COTS servers, storage technologies, and standard Operating Systems (Windows and Linux)
• Experience with CNAPP platforms and technologies
• Proficiency in API definition and integrations
• Expertise in optimizing algorithms and ETL processes
• In-depth knowledge of multi-cloud providers and services (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Detailed understanding of core internet protocols including TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP(s)
• Strong background in Agile implementation within a software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Familiarity with development technologies such as code repositories, task ticketing, IDEs, pipelines, code analysis, test-driven development, etc.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, .NET, Go.
• Proficiency with container solutions like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Data platforms like Postgres, MSSQL, Opensearch, Snowflake
• Familiarity with Cloud services such as ECS, RDS, Lambda, Airwatch
• UI development experience using frameworks like Angular, Django, Grafana, etc.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills, coupled with problem-solving and analytical abilities

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree (Computer Science preferred) or equivalent experience