Senior Manager Software Engineering - Cyber Security

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Role Purpose

Lead security architecture for applications and platforms, embedding secure-by-design principles and operational resilience. Drive cloud security, application security, and adversary testing while ensuring continuous monitoring and rapid response capabilities across AWS and Azure environments.

Key Outcomes

• Bias for Action Leadership that helps the software engineering teams we serve find the best path to "yes" when building new features or maintaining existing ones.
• People-first Security Architecture that helps make software engineers make good decisions (using both paved-road patterns and customized, needs-driven engineering), supported by knowledgeable and supportive architects, every time.
• Tech-enabled Secure Decision Making that helps software engineers find defects in their code faster and avoids the promotion of defects through the SDLC.
• Cloud Security Posture uplift with identity, network, and workload hardening.
• High-Quality Security Testing for high-priority vulnerabilities with actionable remediation and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Engineering

• Lead a team of security architects and engineers to ensure software engineers have expert support at every stage of software development.
• Define security patterns for AWS and Azure, including identity, encryption, and workload protection.
• Develop and enhance, in collaboration with global leaders, service opportunities such as rapid threat modelling and secure development guidance.
• Implement runtime protection and container hardening for Kubernetes/EKS/AKS.

Operational Security & Resilience

• Collaborate in the development of improved processes which rapidly escalate and resolve newly-discovered critical vulnerabilities.
• Ensure timely vulnerability remediation and configuration drift management.

Security Testing

• Manage a security testing function which focuses on identifying the most important security vulnerabilities in our production and pre-production software.
• Manage security testing activities including test onboarding, test execution, and test reporting.
• Identify trends in high-importance vulnerability categories and offer architectural support in resolving those trends at scale.

Leadership

• Build and mentor a security architecture team; influence product and platform owners.
• Translate strategy into measurable outcomes and communicate risk effectively.

Qualifications

• ~20 years' experience, with 10+ years in security architecture leadership.
• Deep AWS and Azure security expertise; proven track record in embedding secure practices.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Techniques (such as threat modelling and operational risk management) which support secure, fact-based decision making.
  • Technical mentorship up, down, and across the org chart to help engineers and architects in multiple applications make decisions that result in secure, quality software.
  • Empowering both direct reports and non-reports to become the best they can in their roles and achieve career growth.

Posting Dates: January 13, 2026 - January 27, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.