TENEX.AI
Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Kansas City Metro +2 · Hybrid · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Kansas City Metro
Sarasota, FL HQ
Scottsdale, AZ - Experience
- 8+ years in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering, with 3+ years managing engineers.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
About the job
Leads the engineering team responsible for deploying, integrating, and managing TENEX’s multi-SIEM MDR platforms and creating repeatable customer delivery at scale.
What you'll do
- Own deployment speed and ongoing health of Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform.
- Lead SIEM engineering, integrations, context engineering, and repeatable delivery processes.
- Hire and develop engineers; manage capacity, delivery quality, SLOs, OKRs, and cross-team interfaces.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering, including 3+ years managing engineers.
- Hands-on depth across Google SecOps and Microsoft Sentinel, or deep expertise in one and strong credibility in the other.
- Experience with data-source onboarding, connector/API development, and normalization across platforms.
- Track record building repeatable delivery at scale; strong customer-facing communication; comfort with multi-tenant delivery and content-as-code / CI/CD workflows.
Nice to have
- SOAR / automation; pipeline and telemetry tooling such as Bindplane or Logstash; Terraform / IaC.
- Prior MSSP / MDR / managed security services experience; experience working alongside agentic and advisory functions.
Tools
Google SecOps, Chronicle, YARA-L, Microsoft Sentinel, KQL, Log Analytics, Bindplane, Terraform
AI focus
Deploy and integrate platforms and use cases developed by advisory and agentic engineering teams; relay field context to those teams. The role is described as engineering leadership, not product-building.
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