Bay Area, CA Security Sr Manager - L6
Sunnyvale, CAFull-time$169–313K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Security Sr. Manager leads Lockheed Martin Space’s National Security Space Sunnyvale site and supports the Vice President of Remote Sensing, with responsibility for additional California and remote locations. The role manages multiple security functions, leads teams and enterprise initiatives, and represents the organization to government, intelligence community, industry, and customer stakeholders. It reports to the NSS Security Director.
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Full job description
Standard Job Description
Current Top Secret with abiltiy to obtain SCI clearance and access.
The Security Sr. Manager position leads LM Space National Security Space (NSS) Sunnyvale Site and directly supports the Vice President Remote Sensing and is responsible for Sunnyvale CA, El Segundo CA, Irvine CA and remote locations.
Responsibilities include:
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Collaborate, influence, and facilitate relationships with LM Leadership and external customers.
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Expected to close enterprise initiatives with support of the organization’s senior security managers and staff while reporting to the NSS Security Director.
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Drives the business to achieve established goals and objectives.
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Spearheads the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes and ensures completion of yearly self-inspection per Customer requirements and forms; form structure and schedule, provide status, reconciliation, and executive summary.
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Collaborates with security management teams to develop and implement plans for operational processes and to accommodate transformational opportunities for the security department.
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Fosters a success-oriented, accountable environment.
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Assists in the selection of comprehensive goals for performance and growth.
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Assists in development of policies and procedures that promote the NSS Security Director and LM Space Security Vice President’s vision.
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Evaluates objectives and performance by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics.
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Examines and reviews customer reports and represent the Director when needed to the DoD, IC, industry partners and LM Space.
Manages more than one functional area in Security, such as facilities/plant protection, industrial security, investigations, governmental/program classified security, security engineering. Responsible for coordinating subordinate employee recruitment, selection and training, performance assessment, work assignments, salary, and recognition/disciplinary actions.
Basic Qualifications
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Current Top Secret with ability to obtain SCI clearance and access.
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Demonstrated leadership of a security group/team.
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Demonstrated SAP Security experience and SCI Security experience with the Intelligence Community.
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Demonstrated National Industrial Security Program (NISP) experience.
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Demonstrated experience working with personnel security, program security personnel, physical security, and other security departments.
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Experience with various security tools such as Scattered Castles and DISS.
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Experience representing organizations to external entities such as the government.
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Experience creating policy and leading groups to implement process across multiple sites.
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Demonstrated successful government security audits.
Desired Skills
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Current Top Secret/SCI clearance and access.
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Process improvement experience such as Kaizen.
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Experience building and staffing teams.
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Experience managing large, complex projects.
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Experience with AI tools.
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $168600.00 - $313200.00
At Lockheed Martin, we know mission success starts with taking care of our people. Our Total Rewards program is designed to attract top talent, support your well-being, and help you grow—both professionally and personally.
The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
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Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
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For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 535 open Security Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$169–313K/yr
- California median$100–242K/yr58 salary ranges
- US median$99–229K/yr401 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $241K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($194K) — in the top quarter of Security Manager salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 65 open Security Manager jobs in California and 535 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Accenture14 open
- PwC5 open
- Allied Universal4 open
- Experience
- Security Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (466 postings).
- Education
- 134 of the 535 open Security Manager jobs (25%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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