Advisor, SecOps Engineering - Enterprise Logging Service Lead

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What You'll Be Doing:

the Advisor, SecOps Engineering - Enterprise Logging Service Lead is responsible for defining the strategy, roadmap, and continuous improvement of the company's enterprise logging capabilities globally. This includes log data collection, processing, analysis, retention, and supporting use cases like security monitoring, compliance reporting, and operational troubleshooting.

What You Should Bring:

Technology Strategy & Roadmap:

• Establish the long-term vision and roadmap for enterprise logging services aligned with business, security, and compliance requirements
• Evaluate emerging logging technologies, architectures, and vendors to guide roadmap decisions
• Develop and maintain an integrated global roadmap consolidating input across functions and regions
• Proactively work to identify log sources that should be ingested into the enterprise logging platform based on security monitoring, incident investigation, compliance, and/or operational troubleshooting needs

Service Delivery & Optimization: 

• Drive prioritization and delivery of enhancements to logging capabilities based on risk, compliance, and operational impact
• Optimize logging infrastructure for performance, scale, cost-efficiency and operational manageability
• Implement continuous improvement based on analysis of log quality, coverage gaps, and operational metrics
• Foster an environment focused on operational excellence, learning and continuous improvement

Architecture & Engineering:

• Define architecture guidelines, standards and best practices for enterprise logging infrastructure 
• Ensure robust log ingestion pipelines across on-premises and cloud platforms
• Implement data lifecycle management governing log retention, access control and data privacy

Data Analytics & Use Cases:

• Enable advanced analytics, correlation and threat hunting capabilities over log data
• Support use cases like security monitoring, compliance reporting, forensics investigations and operational troubleshooting
• Work with data engineers and analysts to enhance log data quality, enrichment and usability

Compliance & Risk Management:

• Ensure logging processes enable adherence to regulatory requirements for audit trails and monitoring 
• Assess logging risks and implement compensating controls to reduce risk exposure
• Provide oversight during security audits related to logging control requirements
• Apply threat models to ensure logging solutions have appropriate security controls applied

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engage with security, IT, engineering, compliance and business stakeholders to understand priorities
• Evangelize the enterprise logging strategy and drive alignment across teams
• Represent logging interests in architecture review boards and technology governance forums 

Your Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related technical field

• OR a high school diploma with 12+ years cyber experience

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise logging, SIEM administration and IT operations/monitoring

• 5+ years of technology strategy and roadmap planning experience in a large enterprise

• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Lilly does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position

Additional Preferences:

• Deep understanding of logging technologies, data pipelines, analytics techniques and architectures

• Strong business acumen and ability to map technical capabilities to business/risk priorities

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders

• Experience with regulatory compliance in areas like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.

• Familiarity with coding, data analysis tools, and log sources across operating systems and applications

• Proven ability to manage and optimize budgets for operations and capital expenditures

Additional Information:

• Remote

• Local candidates will be required to work a hybrid model at the Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Lilly currently anticipates that the base salary for this position could range from between $135,000 to $211,400 and will depend, in part, on the successful candidate’s qualifications for the role, including education and experience. Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).  Of course, the compensation described above is subject to change and could be higher or lower than the range described above.  Further, Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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