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Your Role and Responsibilities
Who you are
We have a team of security compliance leaders overseeing solutions for this complex environment, collaborating with security architects and Cloud DevOps teams internally and around IBM. The security compliance leader’s role is to determine the secure operation of the all-computer systems, servers, and network connections in accordance with our policies, procedures, and compliance requirements. A security compliance leader in our team will participate in some or all of the following:
Providing subject matter expertise in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of appropriate enterprise programs, policies, and procedures to be compliant with all applicable regulations including ISO, SOC, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP/FISMA
Having the ability to utilize working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc
Interpreting standards, requirements, and their application to the enterprise Cloud environment in the most reasonable and cost-effective manner
Developing, implementing, maintaining, and overseeing enforcement of security policies
Collaborating with security architects and technical security teams to define and implement security processes and procedures based on industry-standard best practices and compliance requirements. Defining the requirements and validating the procedures and audit testing methodology
Conducting regularly scheduled audits on systems and hosting third-party audits as required in order to maintain certifications and compliance certificates.
Working with the DevOps teams to prepare ongoing client reporting, information for prospective clients, and marketing materials
Providing training to teams as needed
Assisting team members and internal clients in addressing highly complex security issues applicable to enterprise environment
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Minimum of 16 years of relevant compliance experience and cybersecurity knowledge
Compliance Managers do not require dev experience, but it is an advantage. 14+years of security compliance audit experience would be more appropriate
Ability to utilize working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc
Experience with compliance programs such as FFIEC or FedRAMP/ FISMA, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, or PCI
Experience in risk assessment processes, policy development, proposals, work statements, product evaluations, and delivery of technology
Ability to understand enterprise business computing operations/requirements, and in particular, Cloud
Ability to stand firm on issues yet be flexible and creative when working with customers to find effective solutions
Ability to understand and interpret laws and regulatory requirements related to information protection, and develop and implement appropriate processes to achieve and maintain compliance and reduce risk
Ability to lead multiple compliance programs for IBM Cloud Services
Ability to lead a team of 8 – 10 resources
Education qualification.
Computer science BSc or equivalent
Security/privacy specific training such as CIPT, CRISC, CISSP, CISM
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Working in a change-controlled production environment.
Diagnosing the root cause of problems and propose solutions: Examples would be failed patches, tooling issues, false positives on system tests, authentication problems.
Expertise in system configuration, especially privilege control (for example sudoer configuration), and system level firewall (iptables)
An understanding of basic networking concepts: IPsec tunnels, firewalls, routers, public and private addressing.
Project Management knowledge and experience a strong plus
Experience with operations of data centers or Cloud, and networking security including security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, OS patching, health checking
Experience with container-based architectures and implementations such as kubernetes, docker, etc.
About Business Unit
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.
Your Life @ IBM
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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
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About IBM
IBM is a global technology and innovation company. It is the most extensive technology and consulting employer globally, with a presence in 170 countries. The diversity and breadth of the entire IBM portfolio of research, consulting, solutions, services, systems and software, distinguishes IBM from other companies in the Industry.
Over the past 100 years, a lot has changed at IBM; in this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries as diverse as healthcare, retail, banking, travel, manufacturing, and many more, by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things. We like to say, “be essential.” We are changing how we craft, how we collaborate, how we analyze, how we engage.
Join the next generation of innovators, inventors, and entrepreneurs who are crafting the very way the world works. We want the brightest minds doing work that encourages an environment where growth is supported. IBMers get to discover their potential, so they’re inspired to build breakthroughs that help our clients succeed. We’re building teams with dynamic strengths with people who want their ideas to matter. Join us — you’ll be proud to call yourself an IBMer.
Location Statement
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Being You @ IBM
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