Network Security / Cybersecurity Manager

TechDigital Group; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity firm is seeking a trusted advisor to enhance customer security posture. Ideal candidates will have over 15 years of experience in security technologies and products, with strong leadership and exceptional communication skills. Responsibilities include engaging with senior executives to develop strategic security roadmaps and improve overall cybersecurity effectiveness. This role requires readiness to travel and a deep understanding of network and cloud security.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in multiple security technologies and products.
• Confident leader with management and organizational skills.
• Ability to guide and work with the security operations team.
• Expert in Network Security and SASE technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the customer interacting with CISO and senior directors.
• Participate in cybersecurity governance meetings and provide guidance.
• Improve cybersecurity posture with various tools and technologies.
• Support the development of information security roadmaps.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Network Security

SASE expertise

Tools

Firewall

Cloud Security Tools

SIEM

Job description

Overview

Responsible for being trusted advisor to customer. The role will be not only be required to interact with CISO and senior directors to help that address enterprise security challenges but also to proactively plan and execute the roadmaps for the organization. This role will be expected to participate in cybersecurity governance meetings with customer leadership and advise them. The role will work towards improving cybersecurity posture using different levers like maturing of tools, resource skill upgrade, adoption of new technologies etc.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted advisor to the customer; interact with CISO and senior directors to address enterprise security challenges and proactively plan and execute the organization\'s roadmaps.
• Participate in cybersecurity governance meetings with customer leadership and advise them.
• Work towards improving cybersecurity posture using levers such as maturing tools, upgrading resources skills, and adopting new technologies.
• Support the development of information security roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Must have 15+ years\' experience in multiple Security technologies and products.
• Should be confident leader with management and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to guide, mature and work with the security operations team to provide best-in-class security operations for customer.
• Should be comfortable working with customer senior managers to drive the information security agenda.
• Should share expertise and knowledge of architecture to advise and guide senior executives.
• Support the development of information security roadmaps.
• Should stay on top of industry trends related to technology and business by integrating professional associations and communities of expertise and continuing to learn one on one.
• Find the relevant technologies and do the required research, facilitate proofs of concept or prototype.
• Should have excellent communication skills (verbal and written).
• Analytical thinking.
• Should be ready to travel.
• Problem handling, conflict handling within team and with customer.
• Should be Expert in
  • Network Security – Firewall, IPS, Proxy, e-mail gateway, URL filtering etc.
  • SASE, zscalar
• Additional skills (Desirable)
  • Endpoint Security – AV, Next Gen AV, EDR, Encryption, HIPS etc.
  • Cloud Security – Native security controls in AWS/Azure, cloud security controls available on marketplace.
  • SOC/SIEM/MDR/Security Orchestration and Automation
• Should have good working understanding of Networks, compute & End Point functions.
• Should be able to stitch security requirements & assessments end to end (across infrastructure landscape).
• Ability to review architecture & suggest modifications/enhancements that will help improve/elevate security posture.
• Should play consultative role to external stakeholders (customer) & should be able to provide guidance to internal stakeholders (internal teams) across the landscape.
• Good understanding of ITIL concepts Incident/Change/Problem and ticketing tools
• Good understanding of project management concepts