Senior Director, Cybersecurity Operating Office
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Cyber Security
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
Cyber Security
About the role
- The role involves overseeing cybersecurity operations, ensuring compliance with security policies, and managing a team of security personnel
- Collect and maintain data needed to meet system cybersecurity reporting
- Ensure daily report and any other cyber or system security reporting deadlines are met
- Escalate or oversee the escalation of cybersecurity issues in accordance with organizational policy
- Ensure cybersecurity procedures and best practices are properly documented, formatted, and disseminated using standard operating procedure templates
- Ensure cybersecurity requirements are integrated into the continuity planning for the system(s) and/or organization(s)
- Evaluate and execute security tool development efforts to ensure that baseline security safeguards are appropriately installed
- Manage the monitoring of information security data sources to maintain organizational situational awareness
- Ensure that plans of actions and milestones or remediation plans are in place for vulnerabilities identified during risk assessments, audits, inspections, etc
- Responsible for managing a team of security personnel, advising senior leadership of threats to security, and proposing changes to the company's policies to reduce the organization's risk
- Exhibit technical skill in configuring and maintaining cybersecurity tools
- Oversee ongoing operations of security assets to ensure that a defense in depth security model is in place
- Ability to review logs for unusual or suspicious activity, interpret and make recommendations for resolution
- Reports to Head of Technology
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years IT experience, with at least 5 years in an information security role and at least 3 years of management/supervisory experience
- Proficiency in security frameworks including ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, SOC2, NIST CSF ad CIS
- Active CISSP/CISM certification
- Proven experience managing or working closely with Security Operations Centres (SOC) including incident response and threat detection.
- Strong technical hands on experience working with MS security solutions, including Defender, Entra ID and Microsoft Purview.
- BS in Cybersecurity or related field
- A strong understanding of the business impact of security tools, technologies, and policies
- Excellent customer service with an ability to 'translate' security and technical terminology so the customer can understand
