Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Operations

Job Summary:

The Senior Manager of Security Operations, reporting into the CISO, leads a team of security engineers that aligns with business strategy and delivers cybersecurity expertise. Under the supervision of the Head of Security Operations, the information security engineers work closely with IT, software engineering and corporate security teams. The Senior Manager of Security Operations provides a holistic focus across infrastructure, application security, vulnerability management and third-party partnerships and dependencies. Across collaborative teams, the Senior Manager of Security Operations defines, documents, maintains, and enforces the practices and policies that are the pillars of a security operations and product security program.

The Senior Manager of Security Operations is a highly visible role interfacing with multiple teams. When security findings are discovered, the Senior Manager of Security Operations proactively communicates with technical and business leadership teams to ensure a focus on risk mitigation. Successful candidates in this role possess technical skills and business acumen and can effectively communicate complex topics. The Senior Manager of Security Operations understands how attackers think and their motives, while at the same time understanding corporate business objectives. The Senior Manager of Security Operations prioritizes team members to help them grow personally and professionally.

Job Responsibility:

• Lead team of security engineers responsible for security operations including vulnerability management, monitoring, incident response and security tooling.
• Provide leadership and direction with security practices and methodologies in information security.
• Develop metrics and scorecards to measure risk to the organization, as well as effectiveness and efficiency of security operations.
• Develop a short- and long-term security operations roadmap to improve processes and agility.
• Remove friction from complex manual processes by automation and outsourcing.
• Promote a positive security culture focused on collaboration and creating strong relationships.
• Adopt cybersecurity frameworks, define/maintain policies and standards, and enforce them across all teams.
• Plan and execute regular incident response and postmortem exercises, with a focus on creating measurable benchmarks to show progress (or deficiencies requiring additional attention).
• Serve as a central point of contact for cybersecurity requirements, initiatives and escalations.
• Enforce security standards and implementation configurations, as well as common security frameworks.
• Collaborate cross functionally with IT, engineering, and other leadership on information security.
• Be accountable to keep information security initiatives within annual approved budgets.

Required Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in computer science, information assurance, engineering or related field. Graduate business school degree highly desired.
• Ideally 8+ years with a combination of one or more in cybersecurity, application security or engineering.
• Experience managing people, including technical staff.
• Experience managing an on-call operational environment.
• Experience working in environments in Windows and Linux.
• Experience working in Cloud environments: AWS or other cloud environments.
• Experience driving measurable improvement in monitoring and response capabilities at scale.
• Experience managing security information and event management (SIEM) systems, threat intelligence platforms, security automation and orchestration solutions, data loss prevention (DLP) and other network and system monitoring tools.
• Proficient in security operations, APIs, vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
• Experience managing an annual cybersecurity budget with expenses for internally developed, commercial and third-party tools.
• This position requires you to have or obtain a government security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens.

Preferred Qualification:

• Preferably one or more certifications CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CRISC.

Location:

This position is hybrid and can be located out of one of the following Mercury Systems Locations:

• Andover, MA
• Hudson, NH
• Chantilly, VA
• Arlington, VA

Mercury Systems is a technology company that makes the world a safer, more secure place. We push processing power to the tactical edge, making the latest commercial technologies profoundly more accessible for today's most challenging aerospace and defense missions. From silicon to system scale, Mercury enables customers to accelerate innovation and turn data into decision superiority. Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, Mercury employs more than 2,300 people in 24 locations worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com

Our Culture

We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

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As an equal opportunity employer, Mercury Systems is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact the number below for assistance.

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