Lead Agentic Security Engineer

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS

Job Description

As a Lead Agentic Security Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for security engineering across the organization. You will set technical direction, own critical security capabilities, drive cross-team security initiatives, and mentor engineers at all levels. You are accountable for the maturity and effectiveness of security engineering, balancing risk, delivery, and engineering realities. 

This is a technical leadership role, not a people-management role — though it carries significant influence and mentorship responsibility. 

Duties and accountabilities 

Technical strategy and ownership 

• Define and drive the technical direction for security engineering. 

• Own critical security domains and capabilities end to end (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security, vulnerability management). 

• Set standards, patterns, and guardrails that scale across teams. 

• Make and own high-impact, risk-based security decisions. 

Cross-team leadership 

• Lead security initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams. 

• Act as the senior security point of contact for engineering leadership. 

• Influence architecture and design across the organization. 

• Align security efforts with business and delivery priorities. 

Engineering and automation 

• Drive security automation and tooling strategy (SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC, container security), including AI-assisted and AI-augmented tooling for triage, correlation, and remediation guidance. 

• Evaluate and apply AI and generative AI tools — for example AI-assisted code review, AI-powered vulnerability triage, and LLM-based threat and log analysis — to improve signal quality, coverage, and developer experience, while validating their output rather than trusting it blindly. 

• Ensure security platforms are reliable, scalable, and maintainable. 

• Build the team's fluency with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, AI-enabled security scanners) and set guardrails for their safe, effective use, including awareness of AI/LLM-specific risks such as prompt injection, model and data supply-chain exposure, and sensitive-data leakage. 

Risk, incident, and compliance 

• Lead response and root-cause analysis for significant security incidents. 

• Identify systemic risks and drive long-term remediation. 

• Own security engineering input into compliance efforts (ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP). 

• Coordinate external engagements (e.g., penetration testing vendors). 

Mentorship and capability building 

• Mentor engineers and emerging leads (including Associate Security Leads). 

• Raise the overall security capability of engineering teams, including fluent, responsible use of AI-assisted tools. 

• Champion a strong, pragmatic security culture. 

What success looks like 

• Security engineering direction is clear, pragmatic, and adopted. 

• Critical risks are proactively identified and addressed. 

• Engineering teams trust and act on security guidance. 

• Security maturity improves measurably across the organization, including effective adoption of AI-assisted security tooling. 

• Engineers grow under your mentorship. 

Qualifications

• Typically 5+ years in security engineering, software engineering, or platform engineering. 

• Proven track record owning security capabilities or programs at scale. 

• Deep expertise across multiple domains (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security, architecture). 

• Strong hands-on engineering and automation background. 

• Demonstrated technical leadership and cross-team influence. 

• Practical fluency with AI tools in an engineering context — for example AI coding assistants, AI-assisted security scanning and triage, or LLM-based analysis — and the judgment to validate their output rather than trust it blindly. 

Scope and expectations 

• Technical leadership role, accountable for security engineering outcomes. 

• Owns strategy and direction, not just delivery. 

• Expected to influence without formal authority. 

• Expected to challenge unsafe designs and decisions. 

• Not a people-manager role (unless explicitly combined). 

Nice to have 

• Experience leading security in an enterprise product environment. 

• Track record influencing engineering-wide standards. 

• Experience mentoring senior engineers and leads. 

• Experience applying AI/LLM tools to security engineering (e.g., AI-assisted threat modeling, AI-powered vulnerability correlation) and awareness of securing AI-enabled applications and pipelines. 

• Relevant advanced certifications (not mandatory). 

Qualifications 

Core required qualifications 

• Demonstrated experience in security engineering with hands-on involvement in automated security solutions. 

• Working knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices. 

• Practical experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Bitbucket, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent). 

• Proficiency in security platforms, vulnerability management tools, and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash). 

• Comfort working with AI-assisted development and security tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, AI-driven SAST/DAST/SCA triage) as part of the day-to-day toolkit, with the judgment to review and validate AI-generated output. 

• Solid understanding of common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and remediation approaches. 

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage cross-functional teams. 

• Familiarity with containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). 

• Knowledge of security standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS). 

Preferred qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or platform engineering. 

• Proven track record owning security capabilities or programs at scale. 

• Deep expertise across multiple security domains (AppSec, CloudSec, CI/CD security, architecture). 

• Advanced proficiency in security automation, tooling strategy, and infrastructure-as-code security, including experience integrating AI-based tools into automated pipelines. 

• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to influence cross-team decisions without formal authority. 

• Experience leading security incident response and root-cause analysis. 

• Track record mentoring engineers and emerging security leads. 

• Experience influencing engineering-wide security standards and practices, including guidance on the responsible use of AI tools (e.g., secure use of AI coding assistants, AI/LLM application security). 

• Relevant advanced certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSK, or equivalent). 

Additional Information

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.