Chief Cybersecurity Strategist

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing, young, energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber, Robinhood, Netflix, Airbnb, Google, Sephora, and more! More recently, we have expanded to working internationally in Canada, China, Ireland, UK, Brazil, and India. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position, please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Job Title : Chief Cybersecurity Strategist

Work Type : Hybrid, Oakland, CA

Rate : $80 / hr W2

Duration : 6 months CTH

Department Overview

The Information Technology (IT) organization designs, develops, operates and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems that enable the client to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to customers.

IT partners with the business by increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technologies, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.

Position Summary

The Chief Cybersecurity Strategist is an individual contributor who is responsible for creating a broad vision for the ecosystem of security tools to optimize for efficiency, effectiveness, cost and ability to derive high quality, actionable intelligence. This individual will work with architecture and engineering teams, as well as operations teams to understand current state, and constantly research and present a compelling roadmap for security tools covering IT, OT, multi-cloud and third-party attack surfaces. The individual will own the remit of ensuring proper use of AI in defense and the ability to detect AI-based attacks. They will also be responsible for leading the "bend the cost curve" initiative for cybersecurity through platform enablement and tools consolidation where it makes sense.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the Service Territory.

Reporting Relationship

The Chief Cybersecurity Strategist reports directly to the Vice President, Cybersecurity and is a high level individual contributor at our Director level.

Job Responsibilities

Provide vision for security tools arsenal

Champion tools coverage and consolidation strategy

Create and maintain visuals of technologies versus capabilities

Manage roadmap of tools to show consolidation and replacements

Understand evolving threat landscape to plan for how to detect and defend better

Strategize and plan for both effectiveness and efficiency in tools ecosystem

Work with Arch / Engineering team on platform consolidation strategy

Provide updates and perspectives to cyber leadership team

Create and manage decision-making framework for tool selection within security ecosystem

Create, maintain and strategize on data flow and integration across separate systems for additional intelligence

Work with all Cyber stakeholders and IT stakeholders to understand tools needs and create roadmap based on decision framework

Measure, manage and increase usage of existing tools

Look at strategic overhaul of tools ecosystem to build a brand-new scalable model of tools and data across Cybersecurity

Work with Architecture / Engineering team to determine how to build AI-enabled capabilities into security tools ecosystem

Work with Enterprise Architecture, Products and Enterprise Platforms and Infrastructure and Cloud Services team on leveraging tools outside of security purview for strategic benefits to Security

Strategize, plan and architect integrations of cloud monitoring tools into rest of security ecosystem

Work with Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) Sec Engineering to strategize and document integrations with Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platform

Conduct research on on-prem and cloud PaaS / SaaS tools to weave into security defense fabric

Share learnings with the cyber leadership team and manage business justifications for addition / removal of tools and services

Work with project teams as applicable to understand and document changes to tools ecosystem and ensure

• out and closing out of contracts

Contact : Internal

Own "Bend the Cost Curve" initiative for Cybersecurity related to technology spend to derive and ensure savings.

Travel 10-15%

Leadership Qualities

The client expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Transformational Leadership :

Demonstrates a holistic view of the engineering, asset and work management and delivers a compelling enterprise vision of how the technology platforms can contribute to growth and performance.

Creates long-term goals that inspire others and demonstrate innovative thinking.

Plots a path from the present to the future and understands what must change to get there.

Strategic Mindset

Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.

Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.

Maintaining an environment of open dialog and free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

Using various- communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.

Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.

Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Diversity and Creates Inclusion

Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.

Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.

Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelors Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience

Job-related experience, 12 years

Desired

Advanced degree in a relevant field such as data management, computer science, information technology, systems engineering, operational governance, or other applicable discipline

Utility industry experience, electric or gas, or other job-related, 7 years

Experience with Operational Technology, Industrial Control Systems

Experience in or leading an operational cybersecurity team

Experience with AI-based security technology

Experience creating a security data lake

Experience with NERC CIP, TSA and FERC utility industry regulations

Contact : Internal

Experience in a leadership role on complex, high risk projects

Experience in strategic planning or other related efforts

Consulting experience

MatchPoint Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Salary : $80