At
unosquare
we're looking for a Security SPM (Security Project Manager), strategic and execution-oriented leader responsible for bridging the gap between security and engineering teams.
This specialized position focuses on aligning security priorities with development workflows, driving visibility into security risks, and ensuring timely delivery of security-related initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead project planning, backlog refinement, sprint execution, and post-mortem ceremonies for security-related initiatives across development and security teams.
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment with Dev, Security, SRE and Cloud Engineering partners for tasks such as vulnerability remediation, compliance audits, and secure infrastructure changes.
• Proactively manage Jira hygiene and workflows—ensuring that security-related tickets are well-defined, estimated, assigned, and properly linked to Epics, Themes, and organizational priorities.
• Track and report progress on security compliance, risk mitigation, and cost-focused initiatives using dashboards, Confluence documentation, and recurring status updates.
• Facilitate regular team ceremonies and leadership reviews, keeping meetings focused, data-driven, and outcome-oriented.
• Support compliance, access control, and decommissioning efforts across cloud and on-prem systems, with a focus on security best practices.
• Identify patterns and areas of opportunity for automation, documentation, and tooling improvements to enhance security workflows.
• Act as a steward of engineering time—minimizing context-switching, streamlining workflows, and closing the loop on stale or duplicative security- related work.
• Contribute to shared documentation and knowledge management across security and development teams.
Continuously improve team processes through retrospectives and experimentation.
Qualifications
• Available to work 9am-5pm, US Eastern Time .
• 4+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or product ownership roles in software engineering/development teams.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and Jira/Confluence best practices (e.g., Dashboards, JQL, Macros).
• Exposure to security compliance concepts (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST frameworks).
• Experience with cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform) and secure infrastructure practices.
• Comfortable analyzing data to drive decisions and communicating findings clearly to both engineers and executives.
• High attention to detail, follow-through, and accountability.
• Empathy and communication skills to work with diverse, distributed engineering teams.
Preferred Qualities
• Ability to manage ambiguity and bring structure to complex or undefined problem spaces.
• Systems thinker who can connect day-to-day tasks to larger program and business objectives.
• Collaborative mindset with a passion for empowering engineers and reducing toil.
• Familiarity with cost optimization strategies in cloud infrastructure.
• Previous exposure to infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, and security concepts.