Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Principal Security Strategist role sits at the intersection of enterprise SaaS delivery and customer security outcomes. Rather than focusing on internal controls alone, it is positioned as a long-term, high-touch security partnership for a defined set of strategic accounts running Citrix platform components such as CVAD and NetScaler. In the SaaS ecosystem, that combination of product depth, customer proximity, and measurable posture improvement is increasingly central to retaining complex, regulated customers.
For a SaaS security career, the work builds durable strengths in translating platform telemetry and architecture reviews into prioritized remediation roadmaps, executive-facing reporting, and repeatable security guidance. The remit spans technical hardening, risk framing, and incident coordination, which mirrors how mature SaaS providers operationalize security beyond one-off assessments. The “voice of the customer” link to Product and Engineering also develops a feedback-driven mindset that transfers across SaaS organizations with platform products.
This role tends to suit senior practitioners who prefer advisory ownership over a customer portfolio and who can move comfortably between C-level discussions and hands-on technical workshops. It aligns with professionals motivated by continuous improvement cycles, stakeholder coordination, and deep specialization in a specific SaaS platform surface area.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About this team
The Strategic Security Services team is expanding within Citrix. Our mission is to proactively harden and protect our most strategic
customers. We act as "white-glove" security partners for the world's most complex financial, healthcare, government, and critical infrastructure
organizations. We are a team of deeply technical, risk-aware experts whose sole focus is to make these customers demonstrably more
secure, reduce their risk, and in turn, protect their business.
Position Overview
As a Principal Security Strategist, you will be the primary security partner and advocate for a dedicated portfolio of strategic customers. You
will leverage your deep expertise in the Citrix platform, including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) and NetScaler, to guide your
customers through a continuous security improvement journey.
This is not a traditional consulting role. You are a long-term, relationship-based advisor. Your goal is to move beyond reactive problem-solving
and drive a proactive security posture through hands-on guidance, risk management, and strategic education. You will be your customers'
trusted guide for security, from architecture and configuration to incident coordination.
What You'll Be Doing
• Serve as the named, high-touch security expert and security point of contact for your assigned customers.
• Collaborate closely with the Account Technical Specialist (ATS) and other internal teams to ensure a unified customer experience.
• Conduct security assessments, design reviews, and hardening workshops for Citrix customers.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized Remediation Roadmap for each customer, and drive them toward execution.
• Leverage and drive adoption of product telemetry to create and review customer-facing dashboards.
• Report on security posture, risk reduction, and month-over-month improvements, culminating in an annual Security Executive
Briefing.
• Deliver security-focused educational content, including workshops, threat modeling sessions, and tabletop exercises to test
customer incident response plans.
• Contribute to our webinars and newsletters to provide security information at scale.
• Act as the primary coordinator and approver for third-party security services during a critical security bulletin or customer
incident.
• Act as the "voice of the customer" for security, providing direct, actionable feedback to our Product and Engineering teams to
make our core products more secure.
Basic Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in a senior, customer-facing technical role (e.g., Security Architect, Principal Consultant, or Senior
Solutions Engineer).
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in the architecture, security, and hardening of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD).
• Strong foundational knowledge of NetScaler (ADC) architecture, including Gateway, Authentication (nFactor), and WAF.
• Broad, practical knowledge of IT security principles: Identity and Access Management (IAM), network security (firewalls,
segmentation), application security, logging/SIEM, and risk management.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills. You must be able to explain complex technical risks to both C-level
executives and senior engineers.
• Proven ability to manage complex, high-pressure customer situations with sound, risk-aware judgment.
• Ability to travel to customer sites, conferences, training and internal meetings.
Preferred Qualifications
• Relevant security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CISA, or similar).
• Advanced expertise in NetScaler, particularly NetScaler Console Security Advisory and Application Firewall (WAF).
• Experience in one or more of our key customer verticals (Financial Services, Healthcare, Government).
• Experience delivering tabletop exercises, threat modeling, or security workshops.
• Experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) security and architecture
About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
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