Manager, IT Security Engineering

Posting Date

05/06/2026

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of America

Manager, IT Security Engineering

General Purpose of the Job

Manager, IT Security Engineering with strong knowledge of enterprise cyber security and experience managing a team of strong technical engineers.

This teammate will be managing a team of security engineers, both local and remote, and will be responsible for promoting, educating on, and implementing IT Security controls and promoting best practices in order to strengthen the cyber security posture across the village. This Manager will partner closely with peer leadership in both IT Security and IT overall to meet the objectives and goals of this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Strategy: Set and articulate goals and build a high-performing engineering team around those goals. Grow management and technical talent by identifying, crafting, and implementing appropriate development plans.

• Strategic Platform Ownership: Oversee the operationalization, roadmap, and maintenance of critical security platforms, including Privileged Access Management (CyberArk), Vulnerability Management (TenableOne), SIEM/SOC (Palo Alto XSIAM), and Endpoint Security (Cortex EDR).

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Define roles and responsibilities with peer teams. Act as an escalation contact for peer team in IT Security Threat Management/Incident Response for platform integrity, maintenance issues, and enhancements.

• Technology Lifecycle Management: Lead the retirement of legacy security applications and oversee migrations to next-generation tools.

• Operational Excellence: Measure team and process performance through the definition and use of appropriate metrics. Forecast resource requirements (people, money & assets) and manage an operating budget to meet business objectives.

• Security Automation & Engineering: Assist with driving automation processes, enhancing firewall requests workflow, vulnerability platform maturation and other controls as necessary.

Experience, Education, Qualifications, or Training

• BA or BS in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or related field.

• 8-10 years delivering information security infrastructure support and related services with a minimum of 10 years IT experience.

• Highly responsive and proven professionalism in communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.

• Values-based personality with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

• Demonstrated experience in computer security combined with risk analysis, audit, and compliance objectives.

• Vendor Management and relationship experience.

• Strong working knowledge of:

  Enterprise IT environments and associated systems

  Privileged account management (CyberArk) within a large enterprise environment.

  Vulnerability Management Scanning, prioritization, and remediation support (TenableOne/Kenna).

  SIEM/SOC operations, logging data sources, and automation (Palo Alto XSIAM).

  Endpoint Detection and Response platforms (Cortex EDR).

  Enterprise firewall technologies, web content filtering, and DNS/URL management (Palo Alto).

  Network and web related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols, etc.).

Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations

• One or more of the following security certifications: CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CEH, Security+, SSCP, etc.

#LI-SM5

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

The Salary Range for the role is $85,000.00 - $135,000.00 per year.

 

 

 

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits  

  

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.