Military Fellowship - Infrastructure Security Governance

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TSGI is looking for a Principal Engineer passionate about Cyber Security & Technology to join a new organization focused on Infrastructure Security Governance, covering our VGS On-Prem Infrastructure, Datacenters and Cloud footprint. This new role will focus on elevating our Cyber Security 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 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 be part of a team of Cyber Security Engineers with 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 Infrastructure and align on common technologies, practices and maturity across Verizon.

• 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

• Ensuring effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of VGS 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 Infrastructure Cyber Security practices, leveraging the Mavens program

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

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

Security Automation Platforms Design & Support...

• Designing 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

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

• Driving a culture of automation to scale cyber security practices

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 Infrastructure

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

• Designing and developing a new framework to ensure and assess the strength of our network and infrastructure cybersecurity.

• Strengthening our cybersecurity posture

• Developing a platform to automate the remediation of cybersecurity issues

• 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

• Effectively communicating highly complex technical subjects to non-expert cross-functional peers, with effective storytelling and proficiency when presenting to leadership

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams and building relationships to achieve wider, organizational strategic goals

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

• 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 Security, IT, and/or Network

• Strong background in developing and implementing cybersecurity policies at the enterprise network and/or infrastructure level

• Experience managing a team of experienced, technical professionals

• Willingness to travel

• 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.

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