Lead Security Engineer

Join MISUMI Americas as a Lead Security Engineer, where you'll be responsible for securing our infrastructure, running access audits, setting up controls, reviewing systems and code, and investigating incidents. You'll have a significant impact on our security policies and priorities, and you'll manage our AI tools and contribute to various compliance programs. This is a hands-on role that requires senior-level expertise in various security domains and a strong understanding of AI security.

About Fictiv

• Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins
• Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth
• Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company
• Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

Responsibilities

• Lead the security day-to-day work, including securing infrastructure, running access audits, setting up controls, and reviewing systems and code.
• Make security decisions and help prioritize security projects across MISUMI Americas' global operations, including managing AI tools and determining their safety.
• Act as the escalation point for routine security issues, coordinate incident response, and help investigate incidents both hands-on and by coordinating the response.
• Solid application security skills: automation tooling, reading code for security issues, and secure integration practices
• A habit of turning manual security work into repeatable processes and automation
• Senior-level, proven expertise across the security domains this role touches: identity and access management, infrastructure and cloud security, governance and compliance, incident response and investigation, application and integration security, and AI/LLM security
• Hands-on incident investigation experience, and the judgment to act as an escalation point on user-facing threats like phishing and spam
• Real experience running user access audits, access reviews, and compliance checks

Requirements

• Experience supporting audit and compliance programs like SOC 2, NIST 800-53/800-171, CMMC 2.0, and J-SOX, including gathering evidence and validating controls
• Cloud security experience (AWS, Azure, or similar), and comfort designing roles and RBAC in platforms like Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, or AWS IAM
• Clear communication and the ability to work across a spread-out, multi-site, global organization
• Strong, hands-on experience securing infrastructure across networking and cloud, including firewalls and segmentation on the network side and IAM, security groups, permission policies, and application permissions on the cloud side
• A working understanding of AI and LLM security, including administering AI tools, weighing new capabilities for risk, and knowing how integrations like MCP servers fit in
• The confidence to make security decisions on your own and help sort out competing priorities
• Familiarity with security monitoring and detection tools, enough to support investigations effectively

We’re actively seeking teammates who

• Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team
• Firsthand experience preparing for and going through a CMMC 2.0 assessment

Preferred

• Certifications like CISSP, CISM, Security+, or GIAC (GSEC, GCIH, and the like)
• Experience with audit and controls at a global, Japanese-owned company (J-SOX exposure)
• Scripting and automation skills, for example, Bash, Python or PowerShell

Pay

USD 180,240 - 216,120