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Cybersecurity Architect Lead

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Cary, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 1/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/6/2025
Job Overview
As a Senior Cyber Security Manager, you will serve as the senior leader for multiple teams of engineers, architects and analysts responsible for MetLife's global cyber threat defense infrastructure. The role requires technology ownership and senior leadership responsibilities, along with deep domain expertise and a strong management track record.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Manage and grow teams responsible for designing, building and maintaining core cyber threat defense platforms including EDR/EPP, NDR, XDR, IDTR, Web Proxy/SASE, SIEM/UEBA, SOAR and other custom platforms.
  • Collaborate with other security leaders to develop and implement robust and resilient threat defense capabilities, tooling and processes.
  • Keep abreast of emerging trends, threats and countermeasures and provide strategic guidance on technology selection, investment, and budgeting.
  • Drive continuous improvement and maximize ROI across threat defense infrastructure thru adoption of cutting-edge features, integration, and automation and where necessary convergence, decommissioning and divestment.
  • Develop and implement security engineering & support best practices, methodologies, and processes.
  • Provide the people and technical leadership necessary to deploy both commercial security products & services and manage internal custom development (DevOps) initiatives.
  • Monitor and report on the performance, availability, reliability, and scalability of threat defense systems.
  • Manage key vendor relationships.

Requirements:
  • 8 years of people leadership experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Advanced security certifications including CISSP/CISM and SANS GCIA/GCIH.
  • 12 years of increasing responsibility in cybersecurity with experience in security monitoring and operations technologies and processes, and security metrics and analytics reporting.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead people in a global financial services enterprise required.
  • Specialized in architecting, building and maintaining EDR, SIEM, SOAR and other cyber threat defense platforms.
  • Expert understanding of the cyber-attack lifecycle/kill chain, cybersecurity frameworks, threat defense & incident response principles, and process methodologies.
  • Strong financial and budget management skills.
  • Ability to write a solid business case and champion new initiatives.
  • Ability to lead thru influence, bring people together and effectively resolve conflicts.

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