Comcast Cybersecurity: Director of Threat Exposure Engineering

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Job Summary

The Director of CTEM Development defines the technical vision and strategic direction for Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and leads the engineering, innovation, and operation of enterprise-scale exposure management platforms. The role establishes competitive standards, strategic goals, and engineering objectives while overseeing scanning, discovery, configuration assessment, exposure validation, and telemetry capabilities that support hybrid environments across Global Cyber Security. This position requires significant experience running complex, large-scale engineering programs with strong technical leadership, innovation, and the ability to solve problems at enterprise scale. The Director manages annual and quarterly budgets, ensures proper resourcing, and leads high‑performing engineering teams aligned with organizational and industry expectations. The role applies deep cyber engineering expertise and knowledge of security and compliance frameworks to deliver scalable, forward-looking solutions. It includes leadership across multiple functional areas, managing managers and technical staff, and influencing strategy across assigned domains.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities  

The Director oversees engineering, operation, and continuous improvement of CTEM platforms, including scanning, discovery, configuration assessment, exposure validation, and telemetry. They lead the global engineering lifecycle, including architecture for distributed assessment engines, telemetry pipelines, detection logic, secure configuration evaluation, and adversarial validation workflows. The role drives automation-first engineering and ensures excellence in CI/CD, secure coding, testing, observability, and reliability to deliver scalable and resilient platforms. 

The Director ensures CTEM platforms meet operational, reliability, scalability, and performance standards, while leading technical analysis to improve detection accuracy, discovery fidelity, telemetry quality, and overall exposure reduction. They own the global CTEM roadmap, set engineering strategies, and define technical direction aligned with broader cybersecurity and business goals. 

The role collaborates across internal teams—including SDLC, Security Architecture, and Product—to ensure interoperability and alignment with enterprise standards. They support financial and operational planning, prepare and manage budgets, monitor forecasts and expenditures, and guide headcount strategy. They establish reporting standards, track engineering progress, analyze costs, and use operational metrics to drive measurable outcomes. Vendor and partner management is also a key responsibility. 

The Director leads globally distributed engineering teams, including managers and professional staff. They oversee staffing, performance management, skills development, and retention. They build development programs, training initiatives, and operational procedures to ensure teams meet organizational expectations. 

The role communicates engineering strategy across the organization, delegates effectively, and ensures timely execution. It supports global incident readiness, exposure investigations, and critical decision-making. The Director ensures that resources, processes, and controls are in place to meet business and security objectives. 

Required Skills 

• 10 - 15+ years of engineering leadership experience overseeing large, complex technical environments. 
• Strong engineering background with deep understanding of development practices, SDLC, coding standards, and modern architecture. 
• Ability to lead technical strategy, set engineering direction, and own platform roadmaps. 
• Experience managing engineering teams of 15- 20+ people, including global and distributed teams. 
• Skilled in people leadership, team development, performance management, and talent retention. 
• Experience with scanning, discovery, configuration assessment, telemetry, and exposure validation platforms. 
• Strong understanding of secure coding, CI/CD pipelines, automation, testing, observability, and reliability engineering. 
• Broad familiarity with multiple programming languages and development methodologies. 
• Proven ability to manage budgets, resource planning, forecasting, and operational execution. 
• Experience collaborating across architecture, SDLC, product, and cybersecurity teams. 
• Ability to lead complex technical investigations and drive improvements to platform scalability, performance, and detection accuracy. 
• Experience managing vendors and third‑party engineering partners. 
• Strong communication and leadership presence, with the ability to influence technical and organizational decisions. 
• Exposure management and vulnerability management experience highly beneficial. 
• Experience supporting global readiness, incident response, and enterprise exposure reduction efforts. 

Employees at all levels are expected to:

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

Put the customer first and design secure, frictionless digital experiences.

Be strong learners and advocates of Comcast technologies.

Know your stuff - be hard-working learners, users and advocates of our groundbreaking technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

Win as a team across business units, regions and bring in new insights.

Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

Do what's right for customers, colleagues, investors, and communities

Promote inclusion, diversity, and ethical decision-making.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Threat and Vulnerability Management; Leadership; Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Cybersecurity

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +