Senior Manager-Security Engrg

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What you’ll be doing...

As a Senior Manager-Cloud Security in the Verizon Cyber Services, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that the data and processes that are used in public cloud platforms are secured and controlled so that application workloads in those cloud platforms are not exposed to unintended users or services. You will also be responsible for partnering with multiple stakeholders in framing and implementing security control frameworks for Cloud platforms AWS, GCP, AZURE and OCI. This position requires a highly motivated individual with a solid technical and analytics background and leadership capabilities, interfacing across the org and cross-functional teams to deliver programs.

What we’re looking for...

• Driving Cloud Security Strategy Planning & Execution: Drive efforts to strategize, plan and implement the short term and long term goals of building a robust, repeat-at-scale, efficient model for the multi cloud platform that will encompass standard north star architecture across domains/systems. It will also include SRE, DevSecOps, Security, Stability, Scalability and Availability tools and processes in place. Enable automation and proactive monitoring to detect issues and communicate to business proactively.

• Partnering with the product and business teams to align on priorities and onboarding their cloud infra into CISO security controls. Being responsible for delivery of security controls on aws, gcp, azure and oci cloud platforms across gts and product teams.

• Being able to communicate effectively with our customers to help them understand security issues and solutions as well as continuous delivery/Cloud concepts. Work closely with portfolio and product teams to build security, reliability, and scalability into the development lifecycle.

• Leading a team to build security automation tools to streamline and scale applications in the production environment and troubleshoot and resolve issues related to security compliance, deployment and operations

• Building reliable infrastructure services in Security Tooling to deliver highly available and scalable services. Use native Cloud infrastructure services such as EC2, EBS, Auto Scaling, Cloudwatch, etc.

• Looking continuously to automate and operationalize the manual / repetitive tasks.

• Architecting, designing and helping the team on automating cloud security controls and monitoring solutions

• Providing leadership with advanced capabilities to enable automation/integration across hybrid processing environments (LDAP, SSO, CI/CD, Cloud APIs, Messaging, Web, microservices, SAAS, ServiceNow, Networking...)

• Conducting POCs on services from security and risk stand points and create access management framework based on principle of least privileges

• Working with stakeholders from both applications as well as other cloud core teams to provide solutions that meet security and governance requirements while minimizing impact on developer productivity.

• Designing proactive monitoring, logging, audits and automated policy enforcement for security and cost compliance.

• Leading US and VZI development teams in a global delivery model setting to plan and deliver projects with aggressive deadlines.

• Providing technical leadership and subject matter expertise on large, highly complex projects.

• Evaluating, developing, and implementing scalable solutions to deliver business requirements.

• Enabling best in class developer ecosystem with needed access, data, stakeholder partnerships, work-life balance and employee long term career paths.

• Creating People & Tech Leadership Pipeline: Nurture development of talent into strategic roles both on technology and strategic management.

• Driving a Culture of Innovation: Champion a culture of innovation and drive as an example.

• Encouraging the team to participate in hackathons, coding events, and other org wide events and efforts.

• Motivating and training direct reports to maximize productivity.

• Coaching and mentoring team members to achieve assigned goals and objectives.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or six or more years of work experience.

• Eight or more years of relevant work experience

• Experience in managing large scale cloud security infra projects from scratch, and handled requirements, design and the deliveries

• Strong people leader and a mentor, and maintains a very high level of engagement with the team members.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with multi cloud platform infrastructures in Azure, AWS, GCP and or OCI.

• Experience on Cloud Security & Governance practices and frameworks.

• Experience with modern source control repositories (e. g. Git) and DevOps toolsets (Jenkins/ Ansible etc.) and knowledge of Agile/ Scrum methodologies.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience in technology leadership, architecture, and Agile methodologies.

• Communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Problem solving skills to develop quick yet sound solutions to resolve complex issues.

• Experience in logging platforms in cloud infrastructure

• Experience in driving cloud security automation, delivering high performing and scalable applications.

• Experience with DevOps CI/CD processes to automate build and deployments.

• Experience mentoring and coaching diverse teams.

• Experience in identifying and analyzing and finding RCA for Errors and working with cross functional teams like SRE and backend team

• Experience with analytical tools and DBs like Postgres, Looker , ELK, ETL tools

• Recognizing, tracking, and communicating issues, accomplishments, milestones to the team and business partners.

• Good presentation and communication skills.

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.

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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.