Senior Security Engineering Manager

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineering Manager to lead and grow our security engineering team. This role is pivotal in defining, implementing, and executing our information security strategy while fostering a culture of security excellence within the Fanatics Ecosystem organization. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned technologist with leadership experience, responsible for guiding a team of engineers and analysts to strengthen our security posture across both customer-facing products and internal platforms. This role will collaborate with Information Security teams across operating companies (Commerce, Collectibles, Fanatics Betting and Gaming, etc). This role reports directly to the Chief Information Security Officer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of Fanatics' operations and its ecosystem.
• Build and lead a best-in-class security engineering team, ensuring security remains an integral part of engineering.
• Design, communicate, and implement a data-driven security strategy and roadmap.
• Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment between security efforts and business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to security engineers and analysts.
• Establish and enforce best practices, principles, and guidelines for security engineering.
• Stay current with emerging security technologies and trends, leveraging them to enhance security measures.
• Lead efforts to automate and optimize security processes, improving efficiency and scalability.
• Drive security initiatives that balance business needs, compliance requirements, and industry best practices.
• Oversee the management of large-scale security programs, ensuring continuous security operations and monitoring.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed security practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC, NIST, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements.
• Responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering services that build a highly trusted security foundation for the Fanatics Infrastructure
• Manage the day-to-day security work. Ensure that the security teams tasks are handled efficiently and there's continuous communication with our security operations team.
• Work with other security leaders to identify, hire and develop the personnel necessary to grow the security engineering, governance risk and compliance and application security functions.
• Continuously improve existing processes and procedures through automation and tool creation.
• Stay current with emerging security technologies and make recommendations for use based on business value.
• Create solutions that balance business needs with company-specific and industry-related requirements and regulations.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in Information Security.
• 3+ years of experience in managing security teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively engage both technical and executive audiences.
• Proven ability to lead and manage remote teams effectively.
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining open source and commercial technical security solutions, such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• Experience in designing 24x7x365 security operations programs to ensure continuous monitoring of the company. 
• Extensive experience in leading Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) initiatives within global organizations,  focus on ensuring adherence to compliance and security best practice. 
• Implementing security solutions in a forward-thinking and user-focused manner. This includes delivering iterative improvements in consultation with the larger Information Security team and other operational support teams.
• Experience with security assessment tools for on-premise and cloud environments including vulnerability scanners, encryption and key management software and hardware, logging and alerting systems.
• Demonstrated success in managing security incidents and implementing security controls.
• Experience managing security programs in an Infrastructure as Code environment. 
• Strong networking skills, including experience with cloud-based networking at scale.
• Experience leading large scale security initiatives with broad impact
• Experience managing an application security team is a significant plus.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC, NIST and GDPR.
• Experience of Agile/Lean working practices and the tools to support them.
• Knowledge of core AWS service 

 

If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award.

*Salary range is listed in USD; ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Holdings. *Salary Range: $160,000 to $318,000 (Salary range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual Offer is confirmed). In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.