Lead Agentic Security Engineer

Overview

• Define and drive the technical direction for security engineering.
• Own critical security domains and capabilities end to end (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security, vulnerability management).
• Set standards, patterns, and guardrails that scale across teams.
• Make and own high-impact, risk-based security decisions.
• Lead security initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Act as the senior security point of contact for engineering leadership.
• Influence architecture and design across the organization.
• Align security efforts with business and delivery priorities.
• Drive security automation and tooling strategy (SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC, container security), including AI-assisted and AI-augmented tooling for triage, correlation, and remediation guidance.
• Evaluate and apply AI and generative AI tools — for example AI-assisted code review, AI-powered vulnerability triage, and LLM-based threat and log analysis — to improve signal quality, coverage, and developer experience, while validating their output rather than trusting it blindly.
• Ensure security platforms are reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Build the team's fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, AI-enabled security scanners) and set guardrails for their safe, effective use, including awareness of AI/LLM-specific risks such as prompt injection, model and data supply-chain exposure, and sensitive-data leakage.
• Lead response and root-cause analysis for significant security incidents.
• Identify systemic risks and drive long-term remediation.
• Own security engineering input into compliance efforts (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP).
• Coordinate external engagements (e.g., penetration testing vendors).
• Mentor engineers and emerging leads (including Associate Security Leads).
• Raise the overall security capability of engineering teams, including fluent, responsible use of AI-assisted tools.
• Champion a strong, pragmatic security culture.
• Security engineering direction is clear, pragmatic, and adopted.
• Critical risks are proactively identified and addressed.
• Engineering teams trust and act on security guidance.
• Security maturity improves measurably across the organization, including effective adoption of AI-assisted security tooling.
• Engineers grow under your mentorship.
• Typically 5+ years in security engineering, software engineering, or p

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

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By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

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As a Lead Agentic Security Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for security engineering across the organization. You will set technical direction, own critical security capabilities, drive cross-team security initiatives, and mentor engineers at all levels. You are accountable for the maturity and effectiveness of security engineering, balancing risk, delivery, and engineering realities.

This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management role — though it carries significant influence and mentorship responsibility.

Duties and accountabilities

Technical strategy and ownership

Cross-team leadership

Engineering and automation

Risk, incident, and compliance

Mentorship and capability building

What success looks like