Sr Mgr-Security Engrg

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Verizon Global Infrastructure (VGI), Network & Information Security group is seeking for a transformational leader passionate about Cyber Security & Technology to create and scale a new organization focused on Network & Infrastructure Security Governance and Automation, covering our VGS Enterprise Network, On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud footprint. This new role will focus on elevating our Cyber Security practices inside our VGS Network & Infrastructure, ensuring their effectiveness and coverage across the entire footprint, quantifying and reducing cyber risks through actionable framework and scorecards, implementing next generation Cyber Security 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 Cyber Security Engineers with Network & Infrastructure background working closely with our CISO Cyber Security organization, our GN&T Network Security organization, and our VGS Enterprise Network, On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud organizations, to protect our Network & Infrastructure and align on common technologies, practices and maturity across Verizon. Your team will be responsible to ensure that the network infrastructure devices are protected at the configuration level and automation use cases are built to identify the anomalies & unknown changes.

What you’ll be doing...

Security Automation Platforms

• Developing and maintaining Network & Infrastructure Security reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to measure our Cyber practice, with a focus on data integrity, working with the VGI SRE team

• Identifying, building and maintaining the automation platforms supporting VGS Enterprise Network, On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud organizations in their Cyber practice

• Driving a culture of automation to scale cyber security practices

Network & Infrastructure Security Governance

• Identifying, implementing and operationalizing metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and tracking to consistently measure the current state of cybersecurity across VGS Network & Infrastructure, leveraging industry best practices and standards where possible

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

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

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

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

• Developing awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network & Infrastructure Cyber Security practices, leveraging the Mavens program

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

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

Industry Engagements & Cyber Transformation

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

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

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

Leadership

• Leading a global team of network & infrastructure security engineers, technologists, and software developers responsible for securing complex global networks & infrastructure

• Focusing on employee hiring, career development, rotation and succession planning

• Motivating staff through servant leadership

• Identifying opportunities for automation, partnering with our Verizon India team

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

• Communicating effectively on complex technical subjects to non-expert, cross-functional peers, with effective storytelling and proficiency when presenting to leadership

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams 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 in network engineering, computer science, IT infrastructure or related discipline

• Ten or more years of relevant work experience in Scripting/Automation or IT infrastructure

• Advanced automation and coding skills using Python and Ansible

• Strong experience in Automation implementations for efficiency, Auto Provisioning, CMDB

• Experience in RPA & Network Automation

• Strong experience in Platform integration & customizations for centralized reporting

• Proven Experience in Metric driven maturity, Dashboards and governance

• Experience managing a team of experienced, technical professionals.

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.

• 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.

Where you’ll be working

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity

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