Associate Director Infrastructure Security Governance

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What you'll be doing...

TSGI (Technology Strategy & Global Infrastructure team) is looking for a transformational leader passionate about Cybersecurity & Technology to create and scale a new organization focused on Infrastructure Security Governance, covering our Verizon Global Services (VGS) On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud footprint. This new role will focus on elevating our Cybersecurity practices inside our VGS Infrastructure, ensuring their effectiveness and coverage across the entire footprint, quantifying and reducing cyber risks through actionable framework and scorecards, implementing next generation Cybersecurity Architecture, advanced Policies and Controls anticipating future threats, constantly assessing external new trends and industry best-in-class security posture, and delivering the related security automation platforms required to scale.

You will create and lead a team of Cybersecurity Engineers with an infrastructure background who will partner with our Verizon Cybersecurity (VCS),Global Network & Technology (GN&T) Network Security, VGS Enterprise Network organizations, as well as, On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud organizations, to protect our Infrastructure and align on common technologies, practices and maturity across Verizon.

Infrastructure Security Governance

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

• Ensure effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of VGS Infrastructure, prioritizing by 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 Infrastructure cybersecurity practices, leveraging the Mavens program -a team of security professionals who facilitate adoption of security by design

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

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

Security Automation Platforms Design & Support

• Design Infrastructure Security reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to measure our Cyber practice, with a focus on data integrity, working with the Verizon Global Infrastructure SRE team

• Support the design of automation platforms supporting VGS On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud organizations in their Cyber practice

• Drive a culture of automation to scale cybersecurity 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 Infrastructure

• Operationalize future Cybersecurity Architectures and Policies related to Infrastructure, raising our maturity and level of protection

Leadership

• Lead a global team of infrastructure security engineers & technologists responsible for securing complex global infrastructure

• 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

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• 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 one or more of the following:

• 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.

• 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.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.