Manager, Security Engineering & Platforms

The Manager, Security Engineering & Platforms is responsible for leading teams that manage critical cybersecurity technologies, infrastructure, and engineering capabilities supporting the organization's detection, response, automation, and cyber defense programs.

This role provides both people leadership and technical leadership across Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), and Cyber Defense engineering functions. The individual will be responsible for developing team members, driving engineering strategy, optimizing security platforms, and ensuring reliable operation of technologies that support enterprise cybersecurity operations.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical leader with experience managing security platforms, cloud infrastructure, automation initiatives, and engineering teams. This individual should be passionate about developing people, solving complex technical challenges, and driving continuous improvement.

What Information Security and Risk contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Information Security and Risk develops, implements, and enforces security controls to protect the organization's technology assets from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction. This job family develops system back-up and disaster recovery plans. Information Technology also conducts incident response, threat management, vulnerability scanning, virus management and intrusion detection and completes risk assessments.

We are a remote-first team that values collaboration, continuous learning, employee development, and technical innovation. We are currently seeking a Manager, Security Engineering & Platforms to lead multiple cybersecurity engineering functions responsible for foundational security platforms and services supporting the enterprise.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, front line supervisors and/or business support staff
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Ensures employees operate within guidelines
• Decisions have a short term impact on work processes, outcomes and customers
• Interacts with subordinates, peers, customers, and suppliers at various management levels; may interact with senior management
• Interactions normally involve resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
• Gains consensus from various parties involved