About the role
Description
Principal Security Engineer, SaaS Security Posture Management, SSPM Platform Lead
Summary
Lead the strategy, rollout, and ongoing management of the enterprise SSPM program. Own the platform end to end, drive SaaS onboarding and security posture improvements, and partner across cybersecurity, risk, IT, and business teams to reduce data exposure and strengthen controls across a growing SaaS environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own SSPM platform management across planning, onboarding, configuration, and operations for enterprise SaaS applications
- Develop and execute SSPM roadmap aligned to risk, business criticality, and regulatory requirements
- Configure and continuously tune SSPM controls to monitor SaaS security posture and align with policy and best practices
- Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments for SaaS integrations and APIs
- Integrate SSPM with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and identity platforms to enable automation, alerting, and reporting
- Partner with Cyber Operations to define detection rules, alert thresholds, and escalation processes
- Establish SaaS governance processes including onboarding, configuration baselines, access reviews, and third party risk
- Track and report SSPM metrics such as posture scores, remediation timelines, and coverage to leadership
- Drive remediation of misconfigurations, excessive access, and data exposure with application owners
- Support compliance by mapping SSPM findings to frameworks such as NIST, CIS, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001
- Maintain awareness of emerging SaaS threats and continuously enhance SSPM capabilities
- Contribute to SaaS security policies, standards, and training programs
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field
- 7+ years experience in cybersecurity engineering or related discipline
- 2+ years hands on experience with SSPM tools
- Deep knowledge of SaaS security models including APIs, OAuth, OIDC, federation, and SaaS integrations
- Experience securing enterprise SaaS platforms such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, Google Workspace
- Strong knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, and security workflow orchestration
- Experience with identity and access management including least privilege, privilege escalation, and non human identities
- Understanding of regulatory frameworks including NIST, CIS, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001
- Strong communication skills translating technical risk into clear actions
- Proven ability to lead cross functional initiatives and deliver results
Preferred Qualifications
- Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SSCP, or cloud security certifications
- Experience with SaaS security and data protection platforms
- Scripting or automation experience such as Python or PowerShell
- Background in regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare
- Experience building security governance programs and risk frameworks
- Exposure to AI security risks including securing AI agents and preventing data leakage
Core Skills
- Systems implementation and rollout, advanced, leads enterprise platform deployments and SaaS onboarding
- Compliance and controls, intermediate, implements and monitors controls aligned to regulatory standards
- Cybersecurity strategy, intermediate, aligns SSPM operations with enterprise security strategy
- Emerging technologies, advanced, evaluates and deploys new SaaS security and AI security capabilities
- Incident and problem management, intermediate, supports alert triage and remediation coordination
- Capacity optimization, intermediate, manages licensing and platform scale
- Contingency planning, intermediate, supports resiliency and monitoring continuity planning
Core Capabilities
- Building relationships, advanced, partners across cyber, IT, risk, and business teams
- Industry insight, advanced, stays current on SaaS threats and SSPM market trends
- Technologically savvy, advanced, deep SSPM platform expertise and tool integration
- Leading others, intermediate, provides guidance and drives deliverables
- Strategic thinking, advanced, converts risk insights into actionable plans
- Customer centricity, advanced, designs effective onboarding and user experience
- Collaboration, intermediate, works cross functionally to solve security challenges
- Innovation, advanced, drives automation and continuous improvement
- Agility, advanced, adapts to evolving threats and priorities
- Inclusion, advanced, promotes inclusive collaboration across teams
- Performance measurement, advanced, defines KPIs and tracks outcomes
- Motivation, advanced, drives accountability and adoption across stakeholders
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected status.
Why Work for Us
At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth.
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