Global Cybersecurity Strategy & Defense Leader

Vertiv Group Corporation; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv seeks a Sr. Director of Global Cybersecurity to ensure strategic information security across IT, R&D and manufacturing worldwide.

You will report to the CISO, lead security architecture, engineering and defense, and drive security maturity across global operations from the Westerville, OH HQ. The role requires a strategic yet hands-on leader who can communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences and build high-performing global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of IT Infrastructure technical and progressive technical Information Security/Cybersecurity experience.
• 7+ years of progressive cybersecurity leadership experience managing programs, teams, and strategic initiatives.
• Verifiable current ISC2 CISSP certification.
• Demonstrated experience presenting cybersecurity complex cybersecurity topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work from Westerville, OH office with the ability to travel up to 15% of the time in the US and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-domain execution of the enterprise cybersecurity strategy established by the CISO, translating it into an annual rolling operating roadmap in alignment with enterprise risk, business objectives, and the evolving threat landscape.
• Serve as the CISO's enterprise IT security deputy, supporting executive, regulatory, audit committee, customer, and operational engagements as delegated by the CISO.
• Partner with IT and senior business leaders to integrate a cybersecurity strategy with corporate digital transformation initiatives, M&A activity, and global expansion priorities.
• Aggressively manage security vendor relationships, and strategic technology investments through mandatory technical quarterly business reviews.
• Provide the CISO quarterly reviews with quantified metrics: business contextualized security events, quantified systems tuning based on events data and security platform specific assessments and metrics focused on completeness of implementation and event driven tuning.
• We are ISO 27001 and the expectation is you lead cybersecurity alignment with this framework and be knowledgeable to talk through how ISO 27001 crosswalks to other frameworks we align to, including NIST CSF and CMMC.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, CS, engineering, or related field

Tools

CISSP certification

Job description

Vertiv seeks a Sr. Director of Global Cybersecurity to ensure strategic information security across IT, R&D and manufacturing worldwide.

You will report to the CISO, lead security architecture, engineering and defense, and drive security maturity across global operations from the Westerville, OH HQ. The role requires a strategic yet hands-on leader who can communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences and build high-performing global teams.