
Director, Cyber Forward Deployed Engineer
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KPMG seeks a Director, Cyber Forward Deployed Engineer to set technical standards and governance across delivery teams while remaining actively involved in production software engineering. The role leads offensive security and secure deployment practices, builds reusable assets and evaluation workflows, and works with C-suite stakeholders to reduce risk. It also mentors managers and technical leads. Candidates need extensive hands-on offensive security and engineering experience, cloud expertise, and technical leadership.
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Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team. Responsibilities Set overall technical standards, architecture, and governance across delivery pods and account teams; establish operating discipline, written rules of engagement, and evaluation frameworks for the adoption of frontier cyber models (e.g., Mythos/Fable, Google Argon, Daybreak). Maintain deep, active coding engagement by designing, writing, and shipping production-grade software, directly tackling complex production bottlenecks, and engineering robust remediations for technical debt. Establish and enforce standards across the full security lifecycle, from penetration testing, infiltration, and vulnerability prioritization through managed remediation and safe containment controls. Build and scale reusable offensive assets, agent frameworks, and developer accelerators (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, and Lovable where permitted), incorporating automated evaluation harnesses, regression testing, and human-in-the-loop workflows to maximize pod velocity. Champion enterprise-grade context engineering, red-teaming, golden evaluation datasets, and observability to deliver secure, auditable, and resilient production deployments. Lead high-impact working sessions with C-suite stakeholders (CIO, CISO, CFO) to translate technical findings into measurable risk reduction, while mentoring Managers, Senior Associates, and pod leads to build talent density and sustain delivery quality. Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment. Qualifications Minimum ten years of recent, hands-on offensive security experience (penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability research, or exploit development) coupled with engineering capability to build fixes, remediate legacy code, and resolve architectural debt. Bachelor's degree in a STEM field or equivalent practical experience. Demonstrated expertise building, hardening, and operating scalable systems in live enterprise cloud environments across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud (GCP), with strong proficiency in modern languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java. Deep hands-on experience utilizing modern AI coding harnesses, frontier models (including frontier cyber models), agentic workflows, and emerging tool protocols (e.g., Model Context Protocol); proven ability to implement prompt engineering, evaluation loops, and containment safeguards. 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership and mentorship experience, with a product mindset and comfort navigating ambiguity to drive... For full info follow application link. KPMG is an equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The attached link "https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/us/pdf/2018/09/eeo.pdf? "contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. No phone calls or agen cies please.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,921 open Cybersecurity jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Utah median$127–190K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$29–44/hr97 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 46 open Cybersecurity jobs in Utah and 2,921 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Utah
- KPMG (this employer)6 open
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- Northrop Grumman4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Cybersecurity postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (2,546 postings).
- Education
- 1,562 of the 2,921 open Cybersecurity jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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