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AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a semiconductor company that develops high-performance processors, graphics cards, and adaptive computing solutions for gaming, data centers, and embedded markets. Industry: Semiconductors
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The Director Security Technology Engineering leads the enterprise security technology strategy and roadmap to strengthen the organization's security posture. This role involves identifying capability gaps, evaluating emerging technologies, and delivering scalable solutions through platform integration, automation, and targeted engineering efforts. The successful candidate will design and develop custom security solutions, including integrations, workflows, and AI-enabled tooling, while establishing a practical build-versus-buy strategy. Key responsibilities include leading initiatives to leverage AI for threat detection, security analytics, and exposure management, as well as securing AI platforms, models, and agents. Required skills include software engineering, data pipelines, and security telemetry analysis. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field like Computer Science or Cybersecurity to solve complex security challenges within a large enterprise environment.
Define and lead the enterprise security technology strategy and long-term roadmap.
Evaluate existing security capabilities to identify gaps in coverage, efficiency, and resilience.
Drive technology selection, integration, and optimization across the entire security ecosystem.
Design and develop custom security solutions, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.
Establish a build-versus-buy strategy and lead implementation for custom development projects.
Lead initiatives to leverage AI for threat detection, security analytics, and exposure management.
Evolve security controls and governance to support enterprise AI and agentic systems.
Translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights and recommendations for leadership.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in CS, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
Experience leading security engineering programs, security platform strategy, or enterprise security technology initiatives (preferred).
Experience designing and building custom security solutions that delivered measurable operational or risk-reduction outcomes (preferred).
Strong software engineering and automation experience, including development of security applications, integrations, workflows, data pipelines, analytics platforms, or AI-powered capabilities (preferred).
Experience building solutions that leverage security telemetry, operational data, and analytics to generate actionable insights (preferred).
Proven ability to define security technology roadmaps and drive implementation from concept through operational adoption (preferred).
Experience operating within large, complex, or rapidly evolving enterprise environments (preferred).
Practical experience applying AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics to security use cases (preferred).
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