Security Consultant IV-Security Risk Management

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What Youll Be Doing...

You'll be part of the "Verizon Global Infrastructure (VGI), Network & Information Security group working on security and automation tools to protect against cyber threats within the VGS Technology organization. You will work with a team of cybersecurity engineers with network & infrastructure background, threat intelligence analysts and risk management personnel to align common technologies and practices that fortify our applications, systems, IT network and infrastructure.

Some of your daily responsibilities would be the following. Infrastructure Security Governance

• Implement IT infrastructure governance policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Establish and maintain a control framework for infrastructure management.
• 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.
• Ensure effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of VGS Infrastructure, prioritizing by risk level.
• Instill ownership and accountability for security-based metrics and drive increased maturity, visibility, and subject-matter expertise for all segments.
• Develop action plans jointly with all stakeholders to remediate deviations, providing necessary support to close on all key items.
• Champion a highly collaborative work model with an aptitude of building and maintaining relationships across different teams at multiple senior levels, internally and externally.
• Develop awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Infrastructure Cybersecurity practices, leveraging the Mavens program - a team of security professionals who facilitate adoption of security by design.
• Ensure Security posture of VGS Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.
• Coordinate necessary activities with our VCS organization: pen testing, incident response, data collection, etc.
• Identify and evaluate potential threats and vulnerabilities. Develop mitigation strategies and track remediation efforts.
  
  

What were looking for... You'll need to have:

• Bachelors degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Seven or more years of relevant work experience in Security, IT, and/or Network.
• Experience in managing enterprise scale server infrastructure.
• Experience in managing public/private cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of network fundamentals, switching, routing protocols, load balancers, web proxies, firewalls and software defined networking solutions.
• Understanding of security fundamentals (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, access control, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing) and secure design concepts.
• Experience in design and implementation of network security solutions (firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, VPN, web proxies) using vendor products (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, etc).
• Knowledge of IT governance frameworks and standards (e.g., COBIT, ITIL).
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC or CompTIA Security .
  
  

Even better if you have one or more years of work experience:

• Bachelors degree in cybersecurity, network, engineering, computer science or related discipline.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment while managing multiple high-priority projects.
• Industry relevant security certifications (Security , OSCP, CEH, CISSP, GIAC, etc).
• Strong expertise in at least one operating system (Windows or Linux).
• Cloud relevant certifications (CCSP, CCSK).
  
  

Where youll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.

Locations

• Hyderabad, India
• Chennai, India