Senior Manager, Cyber Security Log Management

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Manager, Cyber Security Log Management

Capital One is looking for a Senior Manager to lead our Cyber Security Log Management team. This team is responsible for enabling comprehensive cyber monitoring by ensuring standard log events are generated across Capital One. We achieve our mission by setting security logging strategy & requirements and influencing enterprise technology teams to deliver. You will lead a team of leaders and SMEs, responsible for people management, vision, strategy, and overseeing execution. 

What you'll do in the role:

• Lead a team of other leaders and SMEs to set and communicate the enterprise security logging strategy in partnership with engineering and architecture teams, Cyber customers, and other stakeholders.

• Recruit and retain top talent with your leaders, motivate leaders and SMEs, mentor, and grow your team.

• Establish and answer questions such as: 

  • Which events should we capture that our security teams require?

  • Where do we capture events in the technology stack to maximize efficiency?

  • How are events transported to a central location?

• Establish technical best practices for security logging (event generation, delivery, storage) and minimum requirements across our applications, infrastructure (cloud, network, databases), and endpoints (workstations, servers).

• Maintain close ties to developers across the company to provide clear logging standards, and maintain close ties with our Cyber Operations teams ensuring the right events are captured.

• Drive enterprise teams to adhere to logging requirements in terms of standard schemas, design, log transportation deployments, and log validation.

• Oversee security logging assessments to identify if logs meet requirements and standards. Track compliance and escalate non-compliance of logging standards to executive leadership.

• Oversee control execution and oversight of critical team processes, ensuring playbooks are adhered to consistently .

• Collaborate with technology teams to automate log generation and transmission so that it is easy for developers to comply.

About You:

• You are a forward thinking thought leader, able to build out work and push vision up with little to no guidance.

• You have the ability to lead, manage, and coach other leaders and SMEs and work in a matrixed organization with stakeholders.

• You have strong judgment skills, comfortable with ambiguity and change. You can tackle nuanced problems with your team.

• You have the ability to foster collaborative, open, working relationships with technology groups and other stakeholders, sharing customer and engineering benefits for security logging to gain buy-in.

• You have experience delivering security logging projects and programs across a technology environment, setting logging strategy with architects, developers, and data experts. 

• You understand security logging & monitoring from both a managerial/strategic level and have experience in hands-on design and implementation of logging.

• You have experience managing high-visibility and high-impact enterprise cybersecurity projects with cross-functional teams including planning, development and management of technical requirements, design, validation, and non-compliance escalation.

• You have passion and expertise in one or more of the following areas: security operations, security log analysis, cloud security, network security, application security, network security and exploitation, and host & endpoint security.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification

• At least 6 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology

• At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity operations 

• At least 3 years of experience working with Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems

• At least 2 years of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• At least 4 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 3+ years experience in enterprise data or logging strategy (defining schemas, configuring log production on applications, infrastructure, endpoints, data streaming, log consumption, and overall data architecture)

• 3+ years experience in cyber engineering (SIEM, data management, alerting, data rationalization)

• Experience in regulated financial services organizations

• Professional certifications (e.g., CISSP, GIAC (various), CISM, CCSP, CISA, CRISC, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect)

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

New York City (Hybrid On-Site): $234,700 - $267,900 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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