Senior Information Security Specialist

22 Jun 2024

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Title: Senior Information Security Specialist

Location: Tempe, AZ

The Sr Information Security Specialist is a key subject matter expert and point of contact for all Information Security related topics. You will support and provide advanced security consulting and architecture to department IT to appropriately protect the information of the company and that of our customers, partners, and employees.

Your role:
  • Understand existing Information Security Policy and Standards that are in place
  • Ensure information security policy, standards, processes, and procedures are implemented and managed properly
  • Manage and perform delegated Information Security Projects, major activities, and requirements
  • Identify, understand, and implement all information security requirements to ensure the required compliance established by local laws and regulations e.g. NIST requirements
  • Concentrate on the protection of business processes, applications, and IT systems
  • Protect sensitive information from disclosure to unauthorized individuals
  • Ensure that new information systems and solutions are developed securely
  • Manage Information Security issues ensuring them are solved or, if not possible, escalated to the RISO/CISO
  • Evaluate information received from the monitoring and reviewing of Information Security incidents, recommend, take proactive and appropriate actions in response to identified Information Security incidents
  • Audit current systems, procedures, and make recommendations for changes / improvements
  • Lead Information Security Response Team when a major information security incident occurs: o Follow established Security Incident Response Plan o Coordination of security incidents, prevention, and mitigation o Conducting forensic investigations and data collection for security incidents that require them o Being contact point regarding incident management and IT incident investigations o Overall monitoring and supervision of security incident management o Determine incident urgency level for high and extreme security incidents o Requesting and activating a task force o Communicative conduit for all elements of the ISIRT o Authority over allocation of resources and makeup of the ISIRT o Authority to include additional optional members to the ISIRT
  • Organize, conduct tests “ethical hacks” of the existing security solutions and support IT organization to understand and mitigate/solve identified vulnerabilities
  • Track and trace the vulnerabilities mitigation/resolution
  • Keep technical knowledge current through continuing education
  • Develop and execute a plan to build an Information Security culture
  • Respond customer questionnaires, surveys, audits, and meetings
  • Support and provide advanced security consulting and architecture (includes data protection and business continuity requirements)
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments to find weaknesses and analyze existing controls effectiveness and suggest remedial action
  • Lead Information Security Concept implementation supporting other IT areas
  • Conduct risk management and security concepts
  • Conduct information security vendor assessments
  • Participate on information security simulations
  • Support vendor management from Information Security perspective
  • Report residual risk, security exposures, vulnerabilities, noncompliance, and maltreatment of information assets to IT security management
  • Manage Information Security agenda
  • Ensure security controls are executed according to Information Security Target Model
  • Participate actively in development of security policies, principles, architecture, and standards
  • Business Partner o Create strong relationships with the regional / global IT community to ensure maximum leverage of resources / solutions to support local requirements o Support the Product Team by providing assistance in Information Security o Build strong working relationship with regional and country counterparts. Maintains close communication with stakeholders incl. Product, Service Level Management, Telecoms, vendors to ensure proper service provisioning and delivery into production o Report on SLA KPIs and Performance of the Information Security to stakeholders
  • Understand existing IT Process/Services

What you’ve got:
  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in Information Security
  • General experience at Servers, Network, Applications, End User Infrastructure level
  • Strong understanding of OWASP Application Security Verification Standards
  • Strong understanding of information risk and Information Security concepts (e.g. threats and vulnerabilities, the security controls required to reduce information risks)
  • University bachelor degree in a business discipline or relevant education and work experience preferably in Computer Sciences, Cybersecurity
  • CISSP, CISA, CISM, ITIL, and other IT related certifications
  • Fluent in English (verbal and written) / Spanish not mandatory but desired
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Excellent service and project management skills with the ability to influence and negotiate

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  • ID: #43473104
  • State: Arizona Tempe 85285 Tempe USA
  • City: Tempe
  • Salary: USD85,000 - USD115,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-22
  • Deadline: 2022-08-20
  • Category: Et cetera