Fusion Connect

Senior Director, Security

Fusion Connect

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityOpenStackSwitching

About the role

  • Develop and implement comprehensive security policies, protocols, and procedures.
  • Develop an IT security architecture roadmap that will identify security controls and identify and assess current and new technologies that will enforce the organization’s security priorities
  • Provide guidance for and help maintain security policies and procedures, risk assessments, incident response activities, vulnerability management, and forensic/investigative activities
  • Stay abreast of industry best practices in risk management techniques and integrate new methods and tools as appropriate
  • Lead and manage the security team, providing guidance and support to ensure effective security operations.
  • Conduct regular security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and implement corrective actions.
  • Provide in-depth support for information security incidents including internal violations, hacker attacks, viruses and system outages.
  • Assist with the investigation of security breaches, policy violations, and other security incidents
  • Ensure that controls comply with contractual obligations, corporate policies, and legal and regulatory requirements
  • Collaborate with other departments to integrate security measures into all aspects of the company's operations.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
  • Develop and deliver security training programs to educate employees on security awareness and best practices.
  • Prepare and present regular reports on the security status and initiatives to senior management.
  • Monitor vendor and third-party security reports/lists and ensure solutions to resolve issues are put into place by the appropriate team
  • Ability to educate a non-technical audience about various security measures.
  • Identify, assess, and prioritize IT risks to data and systems, including external threats, cyber-crimes, internal threats, and third-party risks.
  • Advise relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action to mitigate or eliminate risk
  • Coordinate the development of implementation plans and procedures to ensure that business-critical services are recovered in the event of a security or disaster event
  • Provide 24x7 support for network and security issues

Requirements

  • Eight or more years of direct Information Security experience.
  • Three or more years in a senior Security management role.
  • Expert proficiency of common information security management frameworks, such as NIST, ISO/IEC 27001 etc.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity.
  • Experience with firewall architecture, management, and maintenance (preferably FortiNet or Cisco)
  • Strong IT knowledge across various technologies such as operating systems, networks and routing, remote access, anti-malware, monitoring, etc.
  • Deep familiarity with Microsoft computing technology
  • Strong hands-on security operations, problem-solving, and project/time management skills
  • Experience with architecting security compliance requirements and standards into workable technology solutions
  • Experience working with Legal, HR, Audit, and management personnel on security and privacy matters
  • Proven ability to work and communicate effectively with internal and external customers, contractors and vendors
  • Active CISSP, CISM, or equivalent advanced security certification
  • Preferred Previous security experience in the Telecommunications Industry
  • Experience developing and managing departmental budgets and solid financial acumen
  • Demonstrated experience leading in a complex, multi stakeholder organization
  • Networking domain knowledge: TCP/UDP, Routing and Switching protocols
  • Working experience on virtualization technologies such as KVM, Hyper V, ESXi and OpenStack
  • Working experience with Microsoft Defender Suite of Products
  • Working experience with Tanium Platform
  • Knowledge experience with AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience with developing and refining security operations processes and maintaining metrics/reporting.