Senior Engineering Manager, Top Hat
Security
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Interactive software for higher education
Job no longer available
Interactive software for higher education
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower educators to engage students and unleash their potential.
Role
Who you are
- Over 3 years of people management experience leading a security team
- Proven ability to develop a strategy and roadmap for teams, emphasizing high-impact work to reduce technical risk
- Demonstrated track record in performance management, expectation calibration, and building and sustaining high-performing, inclusive teams
- Enthusiasm for cultivating a security-focused culture within engineering practices and processes
- Strong sense of ownership and a bias for action
- Experience in managing vendor partnerships and budgets
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adjust style and tone for different audiences
- Over 5 years of hands-on experience in domains like application security, cloud security, and corporate security
- Proficiency in modern cloud technology components and deployment patterns, like virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, server-less, and infrastructure as code
- Experience securing SaaS and multi-cloud environments such as AWS
- In-depth understanding of modern SDLC and DevOps practices
- Previous involvement in security incident response management, including implementation and program management
- Knowledge and experience in security compliance (SOC2/ISO27001/NIST)
- Solid understanding of secure network design
- Hands-on experience in managing and implementing SCA, SAST, DAST, RASP, IAST, and vulnerability management
- Implementation and management of security operations tools (SIEM, IDS, IPS, Firewall, etc.)
- Previous experience in security championship and secure coding
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Senior Security Engineering Manager to lead our security team
- In this role, you will collaborate closely with engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure the security of Top Hat's products and organization
- Beyond technical expertise, your focus will be on establishing yourself as a valuable team member and leader, coaching your team to success, and bridging crucial communication gaps between the engineering team and senior leadership
- As the voice of security in the education industry, you will identify the right security investments to help us build a robust security fundamental for Top Hat
- Our ideal candidate is someone who wakes up each morning with a vision to scale security
- They aim to reduce risk while facilitating the business to move swiftly and securely
- They strongly believe that security should be inherent in the tools and processes engineers use daily
- Their goal is to "Automate Everything," and they eagerly seize opportunities to apply tooling, automation, and self-service to security workflows, enhancing team scale and reliability
- Build relationships with key stakeholders, such as engineering managers, product managers, and company leadership, to seamlessly integrate security into business goals
- Develop and manage security documents, including policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring adherence by employees. Collaborate with internal teams to mitigate security risks and maintain Top Hat's compliance
- Provide subject matter expertise in various specialty areas, including application security, cloud security, corporate security, compliance, and regulatory matters
- Recruit and lead a team of security engineers, offering technical vision and direction
- Create tools and services to minimize manual efforts, enhancing the security and reliability of our product and infrastructure
- Support team members' career growth through weekly syncs, consistent 1:1s, individual development planning, and performance reviews
- Collaborate with Top Hat’s engineering and product organizations to address vulnerabilities identified by the team, communicating risks to leadership teams
- Foster technical leadership within the team, establishing a culture of mentorship, pairing, and knowledge sharing to pinpoint the highest-risk vulnerabilities in Top Hat’s critical product areas
- Ensure compliance with industry security standards, regulations, and certifications such as StateRAMP, PCI DSS, and SOC2
- Build and manage security operation capabilities to safeguard Top Hat's assets and customers
Our take
Top Hat is at the apex of two major trends in education: the digitisation of platforms for content and the rising costs of higher education for students. By digitising work largely created by professors, Top Hat has delivered engaging content at a lower cost for students across Canada and North America.
Where traditional publishers rely on analogue processes to provide high-quality but largely unengaging, uninteractive and expensive textbooks, Top Hat markets the platform to professors to publish their own interactive multimedia online textbooks. This gives them a cut and builds a holistic student experience on top of it.
The product has now had so much success that Top Hat’s strategy has evolved to include buying those conventional publishers of postsecondary course materials. This means the company can shift those high-quality materials into digital versions and make them available on a subscription basis.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2021
$130m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$55m
SERIES D
Total funding: $234.9m
Company benefits
- Professional learning and development for all role levels
- The latest and greatest technology to do your job
- An awesome and welcoming Toronto HQ
- Competitive benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts
- A management team focused on performance, growth, engagement and connection
- Employee-led, exec sponsored employee resource groups
Company HQ
Bay-Cloverhill, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Maggie (Moylan) Leen
(CEO)Formerly VP of Marketing and Communications, Medical and Healthcare at Adtalem Global Education. Also spent 14 years at Pearson and 2 years at Community Advocates.
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