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Nexxen

Director of Engineering, Security

New York, NY; Baltimore, MD Full Time

Who is Nexxen?   
Flexible advertising, unified by data. Nexxen empowers advertisers, agencies, publishers and broadcasters around the world to utilize data and advanced TV in the ways that are most meaningful to them. Our flexible and unified technology stack comprises a demand-side platform (“DSP”) and supply-side platform (“SSP”), with the Nexxen Data Platform at its core. 

Why join the Nexxen team? 
With a global footprint, you can be part of a team that is transforming advertising through our creative, flexible and unified solutions. Employees hustle, commit and dedicate themselves to pillars that make up the Nexxen Way – the 3Cs - Customer Centric, Curious Mindset, Collaborative with No Ego.

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Nexxen is seeking a Director of Engineering, Security to own the strategy, delivery, and lifecycle of our security program across applications, cloud/infrastructure, identity, data, and SOC operations. This role leads secure-by-design practices, incident readiness, and AI security governance while partnering with executives and cross-functional leaders to deliver measurable risk reduction and compliance at scale. 

This role leads Security Engineering domains, including Application Security/DevSecOps, Cloud/Infrastructure Security, Identity & Data Security, and Compliance/SOC integration. The director establishes secure SDLC and architecture guardrails, ensures detection and response effectiveness, governs security vendors and budgets, and drives process transformation. The role collaborates closely with Engineering/Platform on CI/CD and Kubernetes, with IT for endpoint and access policy enforcement, with Data on protection and lineage, and with Legal/Compliance on SOC 2/SOX/GDPR and AI governance. 

This role will be based in the New York office. Our team follows a hybrid schedule, working in the office three days a week and remotely for the rest.    

Each day can be different here at Nexxen, but some of the things you can expect to be doing daily are: 

What You’ll Do:

  • Strategy and leadership  
  • Define a multi-year security strategy and roadmap aligned to Nexxen’s business and product direction. 
  • Chair the Weekly Security Council; represent Security in the Architecture Review Board. 
  • Lead AI Security Council (monthly) and AI Ethics Board (quarterly); deliver bi-monthly executive briefings on risk posture. 
  • Build a high-performing, globally distributed security organization and Security Champions program. 
  • Product, delivery, and value realization  
  • Drive secure SDLC adoption: threat modeling, secure coding standards, SAST/DAST/SCA, and CI/CD gating. 
  • Prioritize and deliver platform-level controls across identity, cloud/Kubernetes, data protection, and web/API security. 
  • Establish SLAs/SLOs for vulnerability remediation, incident response, and control health; measure MTTR and risk reduction. 
  • Lead build/buy evaluations for security tooling; negotiate, optimize licensing, and manage vendor success. 
  • Architecture and integrations  
  • Own target-state security architecture for AWS Organizations (multi-account), EKS, and data center environments. 
  • Standardize identity and network segmentation patterns; advance zero-trust and least-privilege access. 
  • Embed policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest/Regula) and supply-chain protections (SBOM, signing, provenance) into pipelines. 
  • Security, risk, and compliance  
  • Oversee SOC operations, incident response, and threat detection with measurable readiness and tabletop cadence. 
  • Partner with Compliance on SOC 2/SOX/GDPR; ensure audit readiness and timely remediation of findings. 
  • Establish AI governance and risk management for AI-powered products and internal AI tools; manage AI vendor assessments. 
  • People leadership  
  • Hire, develop, and mentor managers and senior engineers across AppSec, Cloud/Infra, Identity/Data, and Compliance/SOC. 
  • Foster a culture of ownership, enablement, and continuous improvement; scale multi-squad delivery across time zones. 
  • Strengthen stakeholder engagement across Engineering, IT, Data, Product, Legal/Compliance, and executive leadership. 

What You’ll Bring: 

  • 10+ years in Security Engineering with 5+ years leading managers and multi-domain portfolios (SOC/IR, AppSec, Cloud/Infra, Identity). 
  • Hands-on leadership with:  
  • AWS multi-account security (Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, SCPs, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, KMS, CloudTrail, Config). 
  • Kubernetes/EKS, container security, service mesh, ingress, and secrets management (Vault/Secrets Manager). 
  • Secure SDLC with CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab), Terraform/Terragrunt, OPA/Conftest, SAST/DAST/SCA (CodeQL, Semgrep, Snyk, ZAP/Burp). 
  • Web/API protections (AWS WAF/Cloudflare), SBOM/signing (Syft/Grype, Cosign/Sigstore), Dependabot/Renovate, Gitleaks. 
  • Endpoint/Network security (Palo Alto/Fortinet, Zscaler/ZTNA, CrowdStrike/SentinelOne, Jamf/Intune).