Principal-sec Risk Mgt

Chennai, India
- Hyderabad, India

Job ID: R-1070297

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TSGI is looking for a Principal Engineer passionate about Cybersecurity & Technology to join a new organization focused on Infrastructure Security Governance, covering our Verizon Global Services (VGS) On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud footprint. This new role will focus on elevating our Cybersecurity practices inside our VGS Infrastructure, ensuring their effectiveness and coverage across the entire footprint, quantifying and reducing cyber risks through actionable framework and scorecards, implementing next generation Cybersecurity Architecture, advanced Policies and Controls anticipating future threats, constantly assessing external new trends and industry best-in-class security posture, and delivering the related security automation platforms required to scale.

You will be part of a team of Cybersecurity Engineers with an infrastructure background who will partner with our Verizon Cybersecurity (VCS), Global Network & Technology (GN&T) Network Security, and VGS Enterprise Network organizations, as well as, our On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud organizations, to protect our Infrastructure and align on common technologies, practices and maturity across Verizon.

**What you’ll be doing**

Infrastructure Security Governance
- Developing and implementing IT infrastructure governance policies and procedures.
- Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR).
- Establishing and maintaining a control framework for infrastructure management
- Identifying, implementing and operationalizing metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and tracking to consistently measure the current state of cybersecurity across VGS Infrastructure, leveraging industry best practices and standards where possible
- Ensuring effectiveness and coverage of the Security Policies and Controls of VGS Infrastructure, prioritizing by risk level
- Developing action plans jointly with all stakeholders to remediate deviations, providing necessary support to close on all key items
- Championing a highly collaborative work model with an aptitude of building and maintaining relationships across different teams at multiple senior levels, internally and externally
- Developing awareness, training & compliance programs focused on Infrastructure Cybersecurity practices, leveraging the Mavens program - a team of security professionals who facilitate adoption of security by design
- Ensuring Security posture of VGS Infrastructure, e.g., access management, vulnerabilities remediation, etc.
- Coordinating necessary activities with our VCS organization: pen testing, incident response, data collection, etc.
- Identifying and evaluate potential threats and vulnerabilities. Develop mitigation strategies and track remediation efforts

Security Automation Platforms Design & Support
- Designing Infrastructure Security reporting dashboards, scorecards and maturity models used to measure our Cyber practice, with a focus on data integrity, working with the Verizon Global Infrastructure (VGI) SRE team
- Supporting the design of automation platforms supporting VGS On-Prem Infrastructure, Data centers and Cloud organizations in their Cyber practice
- Driving a culture of automation to scale cybersecurity practices

Industry Engagements & Cyber Transformation
- Establishing partnerships with industry leaders and forums to constantly assess new trends and solutions
- Leading transformation towards Security by Design and Zero Trust principles for Infrastructure
- Operationalize future Cybersecurity Architectures and Policies related to Infrastructure, constantly raising our maturity and level of protection
- Identifying opportunities for automation, partnering with our Verizon India team
- Stakeholdering with multiple external teams across Verizon, with sometimes competing, organizationally separate groups and goals
- Building Cross-functional collaboration and relationship building to achieve wider, organizational strategic goals

**What we’re looking for...**

**You'll need to have**:

- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience in network engineering, computer science, IT infrastructure or related discipline
- Ten or more years of relevant work experience in Security, IT, and/or Network
- Experience managing a