Chief Cyber Security Strategist

Role: Chief Cyber Security StrategistLocation: 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-relatedExperience with Operational Technology, Industrial Control SystemsExperience in or leading an operational cybersecurity teamExperience with AI-based security technologyExperience creating a security data lakeExperience with NERC CIP, TSA and FERC utility industry regulationsJob ResponsibilitiesProvide vision for security tools arsenalChampion tools coverage and consolidation strategyCreate and maintain visuals of technologies versus capabilitiesManage roadmap of tools to show consolidation and replacementsUnderstand evolving threat landscape to plan for how to detect and defend betterStrategize and plan for both effectiveness and efficiency in tools ecosystemWork with Arch/Engineering team on platform consolidation strategyProvide updates and perspectives to cyber leadership teamCreate and manage decision-making framework for tool selection within security ecosystemCreate, maintain and strategize on data flow and integration across separate systems for additional intelligenceWork with all Cyber stakeholders and IT stakeholders to understand tools needs and create roadmap based on decision frameworkMeasure, manage and increase usage of existing toolsLook at strategic overhaul of tools ecosystem to build a brand-new scalable model of tools and data across CybersecurityWork with Architecture/Engineering team to determine how to build AI-enabled capabilities into security tools ecosystemWork with Enterprise Architecture, Products and Enterprise Platforms and Infrastructure and Cloud Services team on leveraging tools outside of security purview for strategic benefits to SecurityStrategize, plan and architect integrations of cloud monitoring tools into rest of security ecosystemWork with Security Intelligence and Operations Center (SIOC) Sec Engineering to strategize and document integrations with Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platformConduct research on on-prem and cloud PaaS/SaaS tools to weave into security defense fabricShare learnings with the cyber leadership team and manage business justifications for addition/removal of tools and servicesWork with project teams as applicable to understand and document changes to tools ecosystem and ensure out and closing out of contracts

Created: 2025-01-25