Director, Enterprise Cybersecurity & Network Defense

AT&T; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 316,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Job summary

AT&T’s Chief Security Office seeks an executive to direct strategy, architecture, governance, and operations of the enterprise network security program. Lead enterprise firewall strategy, segmentation, IDS/IPS, and other controls to protect AT&T’s infrastructure and services.

The Director oversees teams across firewall governance, security architecture, segmentation, threat detection, and modernization initiatives, partnering with technology and business units to reduce cyber risk and enable

Qualifications

• Leads enterprise firewall strategy, architecture, lifecycle management, governance, policy standards, rule management, and access controls.
• Modernizes firewall platforms through simplification, automation, scalability, compliance, technical debt reduction, and attack-surface minimization.
• Defines enterprise network segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies that protect critical assets and reduce lateral movement.
• Develops long-term network security architecture roadmaps with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams, balancing risk reduction and business enablement.
• Provides executive leadership for IDS/IPS, detection engineering, threat prevention, monitoring, analytics, continuous tuning, and incident readiness.
• Advances scalable security engineering through automation, orchestration, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, policy automation, and workflow optimization.
• Establishes governance, audit readiness, executive metrics, dashboards, objectives, and performance indicators that demonstrate measurable risk reduction.
• Leads and develops high-performing cybersecurity teams, set priorities, build future leaders, and influence executive investment and risk decisions.

Responsibilities

• Leads enterprise firewall strategy, architecture, lifecycle management, governance, policy standards, rule management, and access controls.
• Modernizes firewall platforms through simplification, automation, scalability, compliance, technical debt reduction, and attack-surface minimization.
• Defines enterprise network segmentation and micro-segmentation strategies that protect critical assets and reduce lateral movement.
• Develops long-term network security architecture roadmaps with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams, balancing risk reduction and business enablement.
• Provides executive leadership for IDS/IPS, detection engineering, threat prevention, monitoring, analytics, continuous tuning, and incident readiness.
• Advances scalable security engineering through automation, orchestration, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, policy automation, and workflow optimization.
• Establishes governance, audit readiness, executive metrics, dashboards, objectives, and performance indicators that demonstrate measurable risk reduction.
• Leads and develop high-performing cybersecurity teams, set priorities, build future leaders, and influence executive investment and risk decisions.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Enterprise security

Firewall governance

IDS/IPS

Security architecture

Network segmentation

Threat modeling

Executive influence

Education

Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Job description

AT&T’s Chief Security Office seeks an executive to direct strategy, architecture, governance, and operations of the enterprise network security program. Lead enterprise firewall strategy, segmentation, IDS/IPS, and other controls to protect AT&T’s infrastructure and services.

The Director oversees teams across firewall governance, security architecture, segmentation, threat detection, and modernization initiatives, partnering with technology and business units to reduce cyber risk and enable