Cybersecurity Engineering Service Lead

Pacific Life

Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Newport Beach, CA
Salary
$137,610–$168,190 / yr
Posted
26 days ago

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Similar $168k
This role $153k
$117k most similar roles pay here $212k

This role pays less than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$194,300 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $168k for comparable roles.

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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 29 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $137,610–$168,190 across 29 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Cybersecurity Engineering Service Lead

The Cybersecurity Engineering Service Lead role within the Operational Risk and Resilience (OR&R) team at our Newport Beach office is a senior-level position focused on identifying, assessing, and communicating cyber risks across the enterprise. This individual will define service strategy and guide execution of capabilities such as threat modeling, security reviews, application oversight, and consulting support to ensure secure-by-design practices are embedded in organizational processes. Key responsibilities include continuous technology assessment, improvement initiative identification, risk issue analysis, and second-line oversight of first-line technical functions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in enterprise security engineering, with a focus on process improvement, collaboration across teams, and adherence to frameworks like NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Strong interpersonal skills, leadership without formal management responsibilities, and the ability to operate effectively in a global context are essential.

What you'll do

  • Drive secure-by-design approach by embedding oversight into organizational processes for new projects.
  • Continuously assess technologies against defined policies and controls to ensure compliance and remediate gaps.
  • Identify and lead improvement initiatives within the Engineering service to enhance effectiveness and scalability.
  • Analyze risk issues across domains to improve future risk identification, mitigation, or acceptance strategies.
  • Provide second-line oversight of first-line technical functions to maintain alignment with established standards.
  • Define service strategy and establish roadmaps for transparency into team performance and metrics.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of experience in security engineering or risk management within a large enterprise.
  • Proven ability to design and deploy scalable enterprise solutions while managing risks.
  • Experience assessing product, project, and technology implementations for security.
  • Strong process improvement skills with the capability to identify inefficiencies and drive change.
  • Demonstrated success partnering across technical and non-technical teams in 2LOD roles.
  • Knowledge of risk management frameworks like NIST Cybersecurity Framework and COBIT 2019.

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