Assoc Director-Cybersecurity

Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

Join AT&T and reimagine the communications and technologies that connect the world. Our Chief Security Office ensures that our assets are safeguarded through truthful transparency, enforce accountability and master cybersecurity to stay ahead of threats. Bring your bold ideas and fearless risk-taking to redefine connectivity and transform how the world shares stories and experiences that matter. When you step into a career with AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future-you’ll create it.

Lead and supervise a team of professionals who protect products, services, infrastructure, networks, and applications by implementing robust security measures, monitoring for threats, responding to incidents, and supporting innovation and strategic planning to safeguard data and assets for the company, our customers, and vendors.

Position Description:

The Associate Director of Cyber Security candidate will be responsible for leading the technical management, creation, and delivery of Cyber Threat Analytical platforms and programs.  This position will manage a team of developers and engineers supporting multiple applications leveraging an agile environment while serving as an SME related to our cybersecurity logging and monitoring environments within AT&T.  The candidate will also lead day-to-day tasks leveraging JIRA, automated metrics, reports, and providing program updates directly to senior leadership.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Strong focus on driving automations, AI, and machine learning solutions driving down cyber risks.
• Independently responsible to lead the entire lifecycle of assigned projects and platforms including autonomous development and contributing to the engineering requirements with a duty to ensure that security, reliability, and performance standards are met.
• Drive team members and adjacent teams on development, platform, and system test related tasks leveraging JIRA in an agile environment.
• Coordinate the resolution of development issues and initiate platform innovation.   
• Serve as the SME and expert technical escalation point for teams across various business units.
• Generate reports, documentation, contribute to team metrics. 

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• 5+ years of experience within the SIEM ecosystem and related technologies (Splunk, qRadar, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Sentinel One).
• Demonstrated foundational experience working with associated agile and various reporting technologies (e.g. JIRA, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, Power BI).
• Expert level understanding of security logs and the ability to rapidly search, report, and troubleshoot within various datasets.
• Expert knowledge of/about well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB, LDAP, etc.).
• Strong knowledge with agile methodologies, e.g. SCRUM
• Expert understanding of Cloud architecture & technologies
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.

Supervisor:

Yes

Our Assoc Director-Cybersecurity earns between $155,400-$233,200 USD Annual not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:  

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected.
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

#LI-Onsite – Full-time office role-

 AT&T is leading the way to the future – for customers, businesses, and the industry. We're developing new technologies to make it easier for our customers to stay connected to their world. Together, we’ve built a premier integrated communications and entertainment company and an amazing place to work and grow. Team up with industry innovators every time you walk into work, creating the world you always imagined. Ready to #transformdigital with us?

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Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

USA:NC:Charlotte / Research Dr - Dat:9139 Research Dr

Salary Range:

$155,400.00 - $233,200.00

It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.