A recruiter is seeking a
Chief Information Security Officer
Key Responsibilities
Management and Leadership
- Technical experience to lead on architectural and technical security by design
- Develop strong working relationships with technology and business partners across multiple locations in support of security, compliance, and audits for the organization.
- Provide strong positive and collaborative leadership to executive teams, other departments such as engineering, product management, legal, support, and IT. Also, lead and manage Information Security teams composed of internal and external resources
- Take initiative to identify gaps and changes required to address security threats and compliance with products.
- Present risk information to executives and advise on remediations.
Information Security
- Responsible for the review and certification of all back up and disaster recovery plans
- Oversee the secure development, design and implementation of new applications and changes to MeridianLink SaaS applications
- Direct and manage computing and information security plans, policies, programs and project schedules
- Continue to build and enhance secure application design and development policies and practices
- Partner with IT to ensure that the technical and security needs of internal systems and services are met
- Develop and maintain security policies and procedures including, but not limited to, incident response plans, business continuity plans, etc.
- Lead the implementation and operation of security services such as vulnerability assessment, threat monitoring and incident response
- Oversee security design and architecture including IaaS and PaaS cloud migrations
- Lead vulnerability, change, and configuration management, for applications and infrastructure
- Oversee administration of security services, including antivirus, IDS/IPS, data loss prevention, and security monitoring.
- Customer facing responsibilities, such as pre-sales, facilitating due diligence requests, RFPs, and customer security concerns
- First line incident response and support for remediation
- Provide Identity and Access management solutions to ensure appropriate access to sensitive data
- Monitor the SDLC and ensure that coding is done with secure best practices (OWASP framework or equivalent) including modern deployment methods such as CI/CD pipelines Security Assessments and Audit Management
- Experience leading red/blue security teams.
- Conduct application assessments (design reviews and pen tests) and lead implementation of associated application security technologies
- Perform risk assessments on new technologies or discovered vulnerabilities
Information Security Awareness
- Implement organization-wide security awareness initiatives and provide timely information to employees and leadership regarding new and emerging threats
- Collaborate with all teams to communicate and enforce security controls
Legal and Governance
- Develop and maintain processes, policies, and technical controls in support of certifications programs and continual compliance with ISO/IEC 27001/2, SOC 1, SOC 2, and other applicable international privacy regulations.
- Continuously monitor security controls for all IT Security frameworks
- Oversee customer Information Security audits
Qualifications Education & Experience
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent years of experience is required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Enterprise Information and Product Cyber security
- Strong knowledge of Secure Development Lifecycle and CI/CD automation tools (TF, Git, Jenkins)
- Knowledge of regulatory and standards-based compliance related to cloud and mobile applications, and data confidentiality (e.g., GDPR, FEDRAMP/FISMA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, etc.)
- Experience with the application of risk identification and evaluation techniques
- Advanced knowledge of Cyber Security and full knowledge of multiple (full-stack) related engineering functions
- Preferred experience with securing cloud architectures (Azure/AWS) and/or Kubernetes
- Preferred experience leading red/blue security teams and working with engineering teams to remediate findings
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