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**When you join Verizon**:
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

**What you’ll be doing...**

Some of your daily responsibilities would be the following.
- Leveraging industry proven tools to identify and reduce Cyber Risks.
- Implementing next generation infrastructure architecture, create advanced policies and controls against future threats.
- Ensuring effectiveness and coverage of security, policies and controls of VGS Network & Infrastructure, prioritizing risk level.
- Ensuring Security posture of VGS Network & Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.
- Developing awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Network & Infrastructure Cyber Security practices.
- Coordinating activities like network, penetration testing, incident response, data collection etc by partnering with the CISO teams.
- Assisting in Crisis Management, Ransomware Recovery and Business Continuity planning.
- Identifying, investigating and resolving global security breaches / incidents.
- Developing and maintaining network and infrastructure security reporting dashboards and scorecards used to measure our Cyber Practice.
- Identifying opportunities and use cases for automation to remediate vulnerabilities, implement controls, orchestrate between tools and automate security practices.

**What we’re looking for...**

You are passionate about network security and automation as a career. You are self-driven and motivated, with good communication and analytical skills. You’re a sought-after team member that thrives in a dynamic work environment. You will be working with multiple partners from the business groups, so networking and managing effective working relationships should be your top most priority. You have an understanding of industry trends in all areas of Information Security.

You'll need to have some of the skills listed below.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology Engineering with six or more years of work experience.
- Seven or more years of relevant work experience in Enterprise server/cloud, risk and compliance management.
- Strong working knowledge of enterprise scale server management
- Knowledge of Private/Public Cloud infrastructure
- Understanding of network fundamentals, switching, routing protocols, load balancers, web proxies, firewalls and software defined networking solutions.
- Understanding of security fundamentals Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, access control, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing secure design concepts like
- Experience working in any one of the SIEM / SOAR solutions like Splunk SOAR, Elastic, etc
- Experience in managing public cloud infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP etc
- Experience working in a SOC environment handling processes like Incident Management and Triage, Vulnerability Management, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting etc
- Knowledge of common software vulnerabilities like OWASP Top 10 / Sans Top 25 and their relevant controls and safeguards for secure software will be an added advantage.
- Experience working on IT ticketing systems like JIRA, Service Now and ability to partner and collaborate with other teams in the organization
- Experience with hosting security awareness campaigns, gamification and bug bounty programs will be an added advantage
- Strong analytical problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills
- Passion to stay abreast with emerging technologies, network security trends, tools and techniques.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

- Industry relevant server certifications like MCSE, RHCE etc
- Industry relevant security certifications Security+, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, GIAC etc
- Cloud relevant certifications CCSP, CCSK
- Strong expertise in at least one operating system Window or Linux.
- Strong Scripting expertise in any one of Python, R, Perl, Javascript, Powershell, bash, VBScript etc
- Experience in managing server infrastructure

**Where you’ll be working**: In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

**Scheduled Weekly Hours**: 40

**Equal Employment Opportunity**:
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.