AVP-Security Risk Management

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Verizon Global Services Technology group is seeking a transformational cybersecurity senior leader who will lead the security posture of Verizon's applications, network infrastructure, and related systems, that will include designing, implementing, and managing security controls to protect against cyber threats across both application and network layers within the VGS Technology organization.

In this role, you will be responsible for elevating the cybersecurity practices in order to identify and reduce cyber risks using industry proven tools, actionable frameworks and scorecards. Additionally, this role will implement next generation cybersecurity architecture, proactively partner to create advanced policies and controls against future threats, and deliver security automation platforms required to scale.

You will lead a team of cybersecurity engineers with both application development and network & infrastructure background, threat intelligence analysts and risk management personnel who work closely with our Chief Information Security Office (CISO), Global Network and Technology (GN&T) and VGS Technology (VGS-T) teams to align common technologies and practices that fortify our applications, systems, IT network and infrastructure. To be successful in this role, the leader must have a keen understanding of the evolving cyber landscape, inspire creativity and the ability to both encourage and empower teams to excel in this mission.

Network & Infrastructure Security Governance

• Identify, implement and operationalize metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and tracking to consistently measure the current state of cybersecurity across VGS Network & Infrastructure, leveraging industry best practices and standards.

• Ensure effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of VGS Network & Infrastructure, prioritizing risk level.

• Instill ownership and accountability for security-based metrics and drive increased maturity, visibility, and subject-matter expertise for all segments.

• Develop action plans jointly with all stakeholders to remediate deviations, providing necessary support to close on all key items.

• Champion a highly collaborative work model with an aptitude of building and maintaining relationships across different teams at multiple senior levels, internally and externally.

• Develop awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network & Infrastructure Cyber Security practices, leveraging Verizon's Security Development program.

• Ensure Security posture of VGS Network & Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.

• Coordinate necessary activities with our CISO Cyber Security organization: pen testing, incident response, data collection, etc.

Application Security & Risk Management

• Drive automation and orchestration of all security tools for visibility and prevention.

• Interpret the Information Technology threat landscape, security industry best practices, industry threat vectors, new technologies impacting security operations, etc.

• Technical expert in business applications, IT infrastructure and architecture - Defense in Depth Architecture and Practices.

• Experience implementing and monitoring security controls, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and identity/access management best practices.

• Track record with leading high performance operational teams.

• Background with different cloud computing platforms and the cloud security framework.

• Manage the budget for security testing, operational and monitoring tools expenses.

• Recruit, train, and lead security operations team members.

• Create and communicate security operations metrics, incidents, investigations, etc.

• Determine SLAs for detecting issues internally and with our external partners.

• Assist in Crisis Management, Ransomware Recovery and Business Continuity planning.

• Prepare reports and make presentations on internal investigations, losses, or violations of regulations, policies, and procedures.

• In partnership with the CISO team, identify, investigate and resolve global security breaches/incidents.

Security Automation Platforms

• Develop and maintain IT Applications, Network & Infrastructure Security reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to measure our Cyber practice, with a focus on data integrity, working with the Verizon SRE teams.

• Identify, build and maintain the automation platforms supporting VGS Enterprise Network, On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud organizations in their Cyber practice.

• Drive a culture of Security by Design, automation to scale cyber security practices.

Industry Engagements & Cyber Transformation

• Establish partnerships with industry leaders and forums to constantly assess new trends and solutions.

• Lead transformation towards Security by Design and Zero Trust principles for Network & Infrastructure.

• Operationalize future Cyber Security Architectures and Policies related to Network & Infrastructure, constantly raising our maturity and level of protection.

Leadership

• Lead a global team of cybersecurity engineers with both network & infrastructure, security engineers, threat intelligence analysts, security champions and risk management personnel.

• Focus on employee hiring, career development, rotation and succession planning.

• Motivate staff through servant leadership.

• Identify opportunities for automation, partnering with our Verizon India team.

• Stakeholdering with multiple external teams across Verizon, with sometimes competing, organizationally separate groups and goals.

• Effective communication of complex technical subjects to non-expert, cross-functional peers, with effective storytelling and proficiency when presenting to leadership.

• Cross-functional collaboration and relationship building to achieve wider, organizational strategic goals.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree in network engineering, computer science, IT infrastructure or related discipline.

• Ten or more years of relevant work experience in Security, IT, and/or Network.

• Experience managing a team of experienced, technical professionals.

• Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, network, engineering, computer science or related discipline.

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment while managing multiple high-priority projects.

• Strong strategic and collaborative skills required to energize and provide direction to teams that are cross organizational(e.g. IT, Cyber and Business).

• Experience in planning large budgets and executing on target.

• Experience with networking concepts and protocols; security and compliance.

• Strong analytical, interpersonal, project management and communication skills.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving abilities in order to quickly find solutions to problems where no previous examples or methods may exist.

• Ability to engage people in the vision and demonstrate the meaning of the work for the bigger purpose.

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