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JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Manager of Security Engineering for Universal Destinations and Experiences (UDX) will lead security consulting engagements for projects across UDX businesses. The Senior Manager will interface with cyber and technology team leadership, evangelize practical security controls that comply with our policies and draw from industry best practices to drive our overall cybersecurity strategy.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive adoption and increase support for enterprise security within UDX by communicating the vision and value of what we are offering. Consult on complex enterprise-wide security assessments and engagements to help engineers see the big picture and incorporate enterprise technology direction into security roadmaps.
• Mentor and lead UDX Security Engineering Team Members to ensure security assessments follow defined processes and adequately define security risks and controls. Serve as an escalation point of contact during security reviews to confirm and if necessary, defend security controls recommended by the security assurance team.
• Collaborate across technical, security, and business focused teams to identify areas of need and opportunity.
• Assist cyber leadership on strategic projects.
• Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, or related technical field required.
• Master’s degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 9+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with 2+ years’ experience supervising teams.
• Security leadership experience. Comfort managing work, processes, and people in a risk-focused team from associates to senior engineers in office, remote, and hybrid work environments.
• Threat-focused security experience. An understanding of how threats operate as well as a multitude of diverse controls across identity and access management, networking, endpoint, cloud, email, encryption, data protection, OT, and software development
• Threat modelling experience.
• Experience with cloud-based application development and hosting.
• Experience with threat analysis frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with varied security controls and regulatory frameworks (PCI-DSS 4.0, SCF, NIST, SOX, GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, CMMC, etc.) and ability to create an environment where compliance flows from security.
• Experience with securing legacy and cutting-edge technologies
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.

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