Sr Engineering Manager, Network Security

Target Target · Retail · NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park, MN

This role is for a Sr. Engineering Manager responsible for a team of network security engineers focusing on firewalls, VPNs, and SSE/proxy technologies. The manager will lead the building, management, and operation of network edge security capabilities, focusing on technical leadership, process improvement, incident response, and stakeholder communication. The role requires experience in managing technology teams, infrastructure/security experience, and a strong understanding of ITIL disciplines and operational processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage, support, and develop a team of experienced security and infrastructure engineers, providing leadership, coaching, and change guidance
  2. Lead and coach daily technical decision making, balancing benefits and progress toward objectives against operational and security risks
  3. Lead rapid response and resolution to platform incidents and problems, from enterprise-level visibility restoration calls to ensuring SLAs are met
  4. Plan and drive direction of critical security and infrastructure platforms in alignment with Target architecture and enterprise direction
  5. Continuously review, improve, and automate operational and build processes to ensure availability, security, and efficiency of the team and their platforms

Skills

Required

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of firewall, VPN, or proxy specific experience
  • 5+ years of experience managing technology engineering & operations teams
  • 7+ years of overall technology infrastructure or security experience
  • Strong track record of operations process improvement and automation
  • Experience in high visibility critical incident response and restoration
  • Experience with Request, Incident, Problem, Change, and Knowledge Management ITIL disciplines
  • Experience with product lifecycle management (patch, update, replace) and technical debt reduction for high criticality technology systems
  • Strong and informed point of view on key metrics, performance measures, and security goals for firewall, VPN, and/or proxy systems
  • Experience in monitoring and observability improvement efforts for infrastructure and information security systems
  • History of building cross-team partnerships
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
  • Team-oriented, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
  • Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams

Nice to have

  • Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity planning preferred
  • Experience with endpoint systems engineering preferred
  • Understanding of and experience with kanban and related agile planning processes preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • managing a team of experienced firewall, VPN, and SSE/proxy engineers
  • building, managing and operating innovative and highly critical network edge security capabilities
  • strong track record of operations process improvement and automation
  • Experience in high visibility critical incident response and restoration
  • Experience with monitoring and observability improvement efforts for infrastructure and information security systems