Sr. Manager, Security Operations (Threat and Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response)

Position Title: Sr. Manager, Security Operations (Threat and Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response)

About the role

In this role, you will drive the strategic direction and execution plans for LTK’s key security programs: Threat & Vulnerability Management and Detection & Response. You will scale out vulnerability response processes to drive remediation across all LTK products and assets. You will be responsible for ensuring LTK’s response to security incidents by providing a capability to detect, respond and contain security incidents. You will also coordinate goal and success metrics setting, tracking and operational reviews for the larger Security & IT organization. You are a technical people manager who actively coaches their team to solve complex problems, provides clarity in solving complex problems and removes roadblocks for the team to be successful.

How you will make an impact

• Own the vision, drive the strategy and execution plan to build effective and scalable Threat & Vulnerability Management and Detection & Response programs.
• Lead strategic technology planning to achieve business goals, including the ability to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical groups, and business case justifications for technology and security spending initiatives for responsible areas.
• Coordinate the incident response process to ensure comprehensive and coordinated response to security incidents.
• Manage threat hunting activities and implement remediation and countermeasures as required.
• Design, coordinate and lead tabletop and red team exercises.
• Define and evangelize operational policies and procedures for responsible programs.
• Partner with stakeholders and peers across the company to deliver shared outcomes that measurably improve our efficacy and efficiency to detect, recover and respond to vulnerabilities and threats.
• Drive improvements in LTK’s overall security posture leveraging information identified from security incidents, vulnerabilities and threats.
• Maintain strong knowledge of ongoing security threats, remediations and operational best practices in the threat and vulnerability management, detection and response.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• Lead disaster recovery drills and simulations to test the effectiveness of recovery strategies.
• Streamline and deliver greater efficiency in the overall Security and IT organization.
• Drive strategic partnerships and solutions alignment with vendors.
• Build organizational capability by recruiting and retaining outstanding talent and providing mentorship, training, and other opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Establish credibility as a trusted advisor to stakeholders including executives, peers, and employees.
• Create a culture of trust, innovation and accountability.
• Define and report program roadmap, status, development issues and success metrics.
• Drive regular operational and business reviews for the Security & IT team.
• Lead effective cross-functional collaboration across groups within LTK.
• Work effectively as part of a geographically distributed team.

What you will bring to LTK

• 10 + years work experience in security operations and/or security engineering
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Proven track record to build and lead high performing teams
• Experience working in a SaaS technology company
• Experience leading threat & vulnerability management OR security incident programs for mid-size or large organizations
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery and business continuity principles.
• Proven skills and experience in securing public cloud deployments and offerings
• Proven knowledge of engineering operations and product lifecycle process, tools and metrics
• Experience in business process management or program management
• Ability to assemble and lead virtual teams to resolve incidents and to work collaboratively and remotely with others to accomplish goals
• Ability to drive complex and cross-organizational initiatives through the influencing of and negotiation with stakeholders who at times may hold competing priorities
• Strong analytical, process management and reporting skills
• Excellent written and verbal executive communication skills
• Willingness to get hands-on and work alongside with the team

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