Engagement Strategist - SOC Services

Summary about this job

Detail information about job Engagement Strategist - SOC Services. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Brand New role as part of expansion for our SOC services practise
• Oversee and coordinate the design of the SOC components for the customer
• Enjoy a great work culture that prides in diversity and self-development

As a full-time member of the Verizon Enterprise Services security team, the SOC Services Engagement Strategist will be responsible for overseeing, monitoring, maturing, and coordinating the design of SOC Services for our Customers. The role is client and internal facing and requires the following primary skills: knowledge of the business and offering, risk management, relationship management, coordination, communication skills.

The SOC Services Engagement Strategist needs to:

• Oversee and coordinate the design of the SOC components of the Customer engagement, and ensure successful inclusion of the roles and contractual commitments within the design.
• Design and oversee implementation of new SOC service model with a unique set of requirements for the Customer’s environment, providing input and recommendations.
• Drive timely implementation of designed services for the SOC and related optional components of the Customer engagement.
• Act as a facilitator for liaising between Verizon’s security functions and the customer to ensure proper solution design, socialization, acceptance, and sign-off within the constraints of the contracted services.

• Provide security consulting oversight and strategic advisory for the customer during the design process to help the Customer improve their overall cyber security posture and reduce their cyber risk in the most optimal cost effective manner.
• Gather, analyze, understand and apply contextual and business information supporting the SOC services design of the Customer engagement.
• Ensure proactive and actionable notifications and deliverables are provided to the Customer within specified timeframes and reported as completed by due date.
• Drive design meetings with Customer stakeholders to discuss emerging threats, new services, technology improvements, and design maturation.
• Liaise and cultivate relationships with Customer and Verizon stakeholders to identify and reset expectations where appropriate, and adjust expectations within the confines of the existing capabilities should changes in business requirements, threat landscape or other similar requirements so dictate.
• Review and prepare digestible, actionable and timely information to hierarchical management and Customer stakeholders through recurring reporting, including but not limited to executive summaries, detailed design/progress reports, slide decks, and presentations.
• Periodically participate in presentations to Customer stakeholders, including management and executives, on information security topics and impacts on Customer strategy.
• Participate in meetings with other Verizon Security Stakeholders, Sales teams, and Contract Governance management on a regular basis to review on-going issues, interaction points, activities and challenges in the SOC design and delivery space.

Strong ability to articulate the actual cyber security and business risk along with good problem definition and solution skills are a must. The willingness to travel and a strong ability to learn new technologies and methodologies are required.

Required Skills, Experience, and Education:

• This position requires 7+ years of recent experience in Information and/or Cyber Security, preferably in a lead consulting, architecture, advisory or leadership role.
• Industry security certification(s) such as CISSP, SANS, CISA, CISM required
• Previous experience working with external clients in a Professional Services or managed services type organization with consulting experience in the design, architecture, risk, and compliance area
• Extensive client management experience strongly preferred
• Detailed oriented and composed in challenging situations
• Strong verbal, analytical, and written communication skills required
• Demonstrable presentation skills
• Experience working in dynamic and fast paced environments
• Strong coordination experience with ability to work across teams and through organizational divides
• Candidate should be able to work independently and interdependently as required
• Ability to travel as necessary

Additional Experience:

• Previous consulting experience with one of the Big 4 a plus
• Managed Security Services and Professional Security Services background would be considered an advantage

Why Verizon?

As well as an attractive package, you can look forward to excellent prospects for career progression in our expanding business. We are a business that invests in its people. Verizon spends more than $275 million on employee training, development and tuition.

Our work culture and drive for diversity have earned us various awards, to name a few - “Top 50 Employers list” by Equal Opportunity Magazine, “Top companies for Executive Women” by the National Association for Female Executives and Training magazine’s “Hall of Fame”.

At Verizon we believe in embracing the diversity of our global workforce - our employees have different interests, experiences and skills that combine to foster an innovative and enriching culture.  We recognise the need to offer flexible and varied working solutions to enable our people to reach their potential and strike the right balance between personal and work life. We leverage our innovative technology and communication solutions to connect us on a global scale, enabling collaborative working.

If you are interested in discussing flexible hours, mobility and alternative working solutions, talk to us; we’ll do our best to accommodate you.