Cybersecurity Manager

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Our client is a leading provider of maritime domain awareness, maritime security, and fisheries monitoring systems to the government sector. Since 1998, they have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, safety of lives at sea and beyond. Today, they continue to develop and implement pioneering intelligence technologies to protect customer vessels, people, maritime domain, and reputation.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Cybersecurity Manager will play an integral part in the organization’s success by ensuring all security programs, tools, and technologies are effective, efficient, and providing the necessary protection to the company’s networks, digital communications, and databases. This position will focus on proactively setting up defenses against threats and responding to security breaches if they occur. The ideal candidate will have a technical skillset encompassing network intrusion prevention, vulnerability scans, and analyzation of network activity, among others. They should be a strategic thinker with the ability to work as part of a team and provide appropriate guidance in high-pressure situations. The ability to interact with technical and non technical personnel, build strong relationships at all levels and across departments, and understand business imperatives will be paramount.
 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safeguards information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems
• Protects systems by defining access privileges, control structures, and resources
• Recognizes problems by identifying abnormalities; reporting violations
• Determines security violations and inefficiencies by conducting periodic audits
• Creates and maintains information security policies and procedures to protect physical
• and cloud (AWS) enterprise systems
• Maintains all security tools and technology
• Implement new security technologies while remaining within reasonable budget and
• implementing controls that might mitigate the risks of its operation
• Fosters a culture of physical and digital security awareness by conducting training
• sessions and communicating with personnel
• Assesses security plans for existing vulnerabilities in order to safeguard the company
• and its assets
• Implements procedures and methods for auditing and addressing non-compliance to
• cybersecurity standards
• Detail out a security incident response program

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Demonstrable experience in supporting previous FedRAMP, NIST, ISO, SOC2, or other similar governance and compliance frameworks
• Ability to research and stay up to date with security trends and changing government and state laws as they relate to security policies
• 1-3 years in a supervisory capacity
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to work effectively across department lines
• Innovative thinker that can safeguard Pole Star networks while also enabling
• engineering teams to keep delivering business as usual
• Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve
• strategic goals
• Exceptionally organized and detail oriented
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity or relevant experience
• Certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, or other related)

DESIRED SKILLS (Not Required):

• Master’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field
• AWS Security Certifications (i.e., Solutions Architect)
• Experience working with DHS or DoD

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance for employees and dependents (100% covered by the Company)
• Working with a dynamic and innovative team
• Life insurance, Company funded to 3x salary
• 20 days annual leave (can buy or sell more days)
• Up to a 10% Annual bonus available
• Up to a 5% 401K matching
• Gym membership subsidy
• Volunteer Day PTO
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus

TRAVEL REQUIRED:

Ability for up to 10% travel both domestic and international.

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