Senior Director - InfoSec Engineering and Operations

Verisign is currently looking for a Senior Director InfoSec Engineering and Operations. This position is one of our most senior information security roles in the company. The position reports to the Chief Information Security Officer.

The position provides leadership and strategic direction for the engineering and operations function, to include security engineering, security operations, incident response, application security, secure architecture, identity, and access management (IAM), red team, threat management, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, insider threat, and forensics.

The Sr Director is responsible for all aspects of information security operations including directing the operations of the SOC and ensuring policies, procedures, and objectives align with efficient identification, prioritization, investigation, and timely resolution of security incidents. This leader will ensure all security tools and solutions are appropriately right-sized and tuned, develop and implement short-, medium-, and long-term road maps, practice budget discipline, and must know the latest on external trends, the threat landscape, and technologies. An equally meaningful part of the role includes a solid focus on mentorship and development, attracting and retaining talent, and influencing the broader company on the importance of information security in everything we do.

In this role, you will partner with peers and more broadly throughout the organization to ensure information security policies, procedures, and objectives align with Verisign’s strategic, technical, and business objectives. The ideal candidate will be highly qualified in building and running technology information security organizations, leading highly skilled people in a fast-paced career field, and have a natural curiosity and critical thinking approach to continuously analyze situations and consider their impact beyond the immediate issue.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Leads InfoSec Engineering and Operations teams while providing management, direction, development and advocacy so the organization may effectively conduct cybersecurity initiatives. Responsible to recruit, mentor and lead a team of information security professionals to provide expert-level guidance and decisions for process and control changes to meet company protect mandates.
• Protect and Defend: Identifies, analyzes, and mitigates threats to our infrastructure, solutions, and business.
• Analyze: Performs highly specialized review and evaluation of incoming cybersecurity information and determines its usefulness for intelligence.
• Investigate: Investigates cybersecurity events related to the security of Verisign’s systems, networks, applications and infrastructure.
• Securely Provision: Conceptualizes, designs, procures, and/or builds and secures information systems.
• Operate and Maintain: Provides the support, administration, and maintenance necessary to ensure effective and efficient security tools, systems, and solutions performance and security.
• Architecture: Ensures secure architecture practices are incorporated into all uses of technology in the company.
• Continuous Monitoring: Provides internal and external continuous monitoring solutions to include threat hunting, bug bounty, 3rd party security assessments, and vulnerability management, incorporating findings in our asset management solutions.
• Represents Verisign in various external forums to include working groups, conferences, and vendor relationships.

Relevant Experience

• Multifaceted leadership experience with a demonstrable record of success
• 15+ years’ experience with information security technologies and solutions
• Ability to lead and empower multi-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals. This requires both quantitative and interpersonal skills.

Education

• 4 Year Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience in business, technology or related subject area, required
• Graduate Degree Master of Business Administration (MBA), or an information security related field, preferred

If you live in CO, CA, NY, or Washington State the annualized pay range for this role is $188,500 - $255,100.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.