What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Cyber Security Strategist position at Tranzeal Incorporated?
Role : Chief Cyber Security Strategist
Location : Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
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.
Mandatory required :
Utility industry experience, electric or gas, or other job-related
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
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
