Lead Endpoint Security Engineer
Position Summary
Security Engineer responsible for Vanguard's endpoint security platforms and operational services. This role serves as a technical leader within the endpoint security space, partnering with security, engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to understand business challenges, evaluate requirements, and develop scalable, secure solutions. The individual will help shape endpoint security strategy, drive large-scale deployments, and lead operational excellence across a diverse portfolio of endpoint security technologies.
Deployment, Engineering & Continuous Improvement
- Lead enterprise deployments, upgrades, integrations, and platform lifecycle activities across the endpoint security ecosystem.
- Drive automation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through engineering best practices, standardization, and process optimization.
- Evaluate new technologies and capabilities to ensure scalable, supportable, and secure solutions.
Endpoint Security & Solution Delivery
- Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and develop practical endpoint security solutions that balance security, user experience, and operational supportability.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for endpoint security technologies, providing technical leadership and guiding solution design across multiple initiatives.
- Assess platform dependencies, architectural considerations, and cross-technology impacts when introducing new capabilities.
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
- Lead technical discussions and influence solution direction across engineering, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
- Provide guidance on complex technical challenges and communicate recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to endpoint security strategy, governance, and service ownership practices.
Operations & Platform Management
- Help lead the operational support, stability, and resiliency of enterprise endpoint security platforms.
- Drive platform health, monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, and operational risk reduction activities.
- Ensure endpoint security services remain reliable, scalable, and effective across a large enterprise environment.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies such as CrowdStrike, Tanium, Microsoft Defender, Elastic Security, Qualys, Digital Guardian, or similar platforms.
- Deep understanding of endpoint security, endpoint engineering, and enterprise deployment practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments and technology deployments.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, automation, and operational resilience initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Strong experience with enterprise endpoint security technologies such as CrowdStrike, Tanium, Microsoft Defender, Elastic Security, Qualys, Digital Guardian, or similar platforms.
- Deep understanding of endpoint security, endpoint engineering, and enterprise deployment practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments and technology deployments.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, automation, and operational resilience initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
