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Your Role and Responsibilities
The security compliance leader's role is to determine the secure operation of all computer systems, servers, and network connections in accordance with our policies, procedures, and compliance requirements. A security compliance leader in our team will participate in some or all of the following:
- Providing subject matter expertise in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of appropriate enterprise programs, policies, and procedures to be compliant with all applicable regulations including ISO, SOC, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP/FISMA
- Having the ability to utilize a working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc
- Interpreting standards, requirements, and their application to the enterprise Cloud environment in the most reasonable and cost-effective manner
- Developing, implementing, maintaining, and overseeing enforcement of security policies
- Collaborating with security architects and technical security teams to define and implement security processes and procedures based on industry-standard best practices and compliance requirements. Defining the requirements and validating the procedures and audit testing methodology
- Conducting regularly scheduled audits on systems and hosting third-party audits as required in order to maintain certifications and compliance certificates.
- Working with the DevOps teams to prepare ongoing client reporting, information for prospective clients, and marketing materials
- Providing training to teams as needed
- Assisting team members and internal clients in addressing highly complex security issues applicable to the enterprise environment
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Ability to utilize a working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc
- Experience with US Federal Compliance programs such as FedRAMP/ FISMA
- Excellent skills in risk assessment processes, policy development, proposals, work statements, product evaluations, and delivery of technology
- Ability to understand enterprise business computing operations/requirements, and in particular, Cloud
- Ability to stand firm on issues yet be flexible and creative when working with customers to find effective solutions
- Ability to understand and interpret laws and regulatory requirements related to information protection, and develop and implement appropriate processes to achieve and maintain compliance and reduce risk
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Working in a change controlled production environment.
- Administering systems that are internet facing.
- Diagnosing the root cause of problems and propose solutions: Examples would be failed patches, tooling issues, false positives on system tests, authentication problems.
- Expertise in system configuration, especially privilege control (for example sudoer configuration), and system level firewall (iptables)
- An understanding of basic networking concepts: ipsec tunnels, firewalls, routers, public and private addressing.
- Computer science BSc or equivalent
- Security/privacy specific training such as CIPT, CRISC, CISSP
About Business Unit
Digitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds - public, private, and hybrid - enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client's data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.
Your Life @ IBM
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About IBM
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Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
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