Summary:
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, military, aerospace, and railway. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications.
We are the people behind the products that help keep the world connected at home, school, work, at play, and everywhere in between. VIAVI employees are passionate about supporting customer success and we welcome people who bring their best every day to the company – to question, to collaborate and to push for solutions that will delight our customers.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Position Summary
VIAVI Solutions is seeking a Manager, Security Engineering to provide technical leadership across the enterprise security engineering and architecture portfolio. This role is responsible for driving the design, implementation and continuous improvement of security technologies and technical controls across the enterprise, including cloud, identity, endpoint, network, data security, AI and emerging technologies.
This is a player-coach role with a strong hands-on expectation. The successful candidate will lead and develop security engineering capabilities while remaining directly engaged in architecture, engineering, technology evaluation, solution design, implementation and technical problem solving.
The Manager will partner closely with Cyber Defense, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Product Security, IT and Engineering teams to translate security and risk requirements into practical, scalable technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Security Engineering & Architecture
Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise security technologies and controls.
Provide hands-on technical leadership across security architecture, solution design, implementation, integration and troubleshooting.
Establish security engineering principles, standards, reference architectures and repeatable design patterns.
Evaluate existing security technologies for effectiveness, scalability, integration and opportunities for optimization or consolidation.
Provide security architecture guidance for cloud, SaaS, identity, endpoint, network, data and enterprise technology initiatives.
Identify technical security gaps and develop pragmatic solutions that balance security, business requirements and operational impact.
Develop and maintain the security engineering technology roadmap.
Evaluate new security technologies and emerging capabilities based on risk reduction, effectiveness and business value.
Drive automation and integration across security and enterprise technology platforms.
AI & Emerging Technology Security
Provide technical security leadership for AI, GenAI, LLMs, autonomous agents and other emerging technologies.
Define security architecture patterns and technical guardrails for AI applications, platforms and integrations.
Lead or contribute to AI threat modeling, including risks involving prompt injection, data leakage, model and application abuse, excessive agency, privilege escalation and third-party integrations.
Partner with IT, Product and Engineering teams to incorporate security into AI solution architecture and development practices.
Develop security review and validation practices for higher-risk AI implementations.
Translate AI governance and risk requirements into practical technical controls.
Assess emerging AI security technologies and integrate appropriate capabilities into the broader security architecture.
Data & Technology Security
Develop technical approaches for protecting sensitive information across enterprise and AI environments.
Establish appropriate access-control patterns based on least privilege for systems, applications, AI services, APIs and data.
Partner on the implementation and optimization of data protection…