SR Manager – Information Security Operations

InterEx Group|United States|Full-time|Not Applicable

One of the world’s leading designers, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with 2019 revenues of $17.5 billion and approximately 78,000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manages response to global security incidents including coordination and leadership during security incident and malware outbreaks.
  • Implement and manage follow the sun model with global stakeholders.
  • Responsible for the implementation and support of technical, process, and reporting elements of the security monitoring and incident programs
  • Manages analysis and reports of operational security key performance and risk metrics to drive program improvements.
  • Provides in-depth technical direction and support to managed security service providers; proactively identifies, tracks, and mitigates risk to IT systems and operations.
  • Monitors and documents indicators of compromise (IOCs) related to advanced, targeted attackers.
  • Develops and maintains security-related monitoring and logging procedures across infrastructure, applications and databases globally for the company.
  • Guide the Vulnerability Management Plan to facilitate, monitor, and support the remediation and reporting activities of the VM program.
  • Understands business priorities and focuses efforts towards aligning services to business requirements.
  • Troubleshoots complex issues with existing security and privacy protection standards.
  • Recommends and implements threat countermeasures and controls
  • Recommends and implements improvements to security services.
  • Develops partnerships with other business and IT functions involved in security and privacy matters.
  • Develops relationships with security vendors and external security experts.
  • Provides Information Security expertise and guidance to internal and external IT project team and IT.
  • Coordinates with environment owners for investigation and remediation of monitoring alerts.
  • Monitors and documents indicators of compromise (IOCs) related to advanced, targeted attackers.
  • Meets regularly with subject matter experts both internal and external to the Security team to discuss relevant threats and their effect on the analysis of vulnerability criticality and prioritization.
  • Analyzes threat intelligence information to identify patterns and root causes to provide decision support for the organization.


Required Experience - education:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology related field or commensurate experience.


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Key challenge: The SR Manager Information Security Operations must own global incident response, MSP coordination, and a follow-the-sun model across US time zones. The US market has a tight pool of 8-15 year security operations leaders with manufacturing/industrial exposure and MSP leadership experience, making this position difficult to fill; competition from financial services and tech sectors increases the challenge.

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