A Senior Leadership position in a multinational organisation in Cork, this requires strong stakeholder management skills and a proven track record in Vendor Management.
In this Director level position you will own the execution of vulnerability & patch management across a complex IT landscape (Network, Compute, Cloud).
This role partners with other functions to optimize enterprise monitoring/tooling/automation to maintain availability, performance, and security posture of critical infrastructure and applications.
Day to day responsibilities:
* Serve as key contact for day-to-day communications between SOC, MSPs, and IT Operations.
* Oversees the execution of scheduled security and network and firewall rule changes in accordance with corporate ISRM policy and change management processes.
* Owns enterprise monitoring/tooling/automation platforms. Drives enterprise tooling adoption and manages the overall monitoring, alerting capacity/performance capability for IT infrastructure and applications.
* Partners with other functions to drive continuous improvement and harmonize operational processes/tooling/automation to deliver operational excellence, efficiency, and value to Business Units.
* Conducts regular reviews; produces dashboard performance metrics on enterprise patching & vulnerability KPIs / SLA's.
* Identifies, develops, and implements automation opportunities for enterprise monitoring, incident response, patch deployment, and provisioning activities.
* Works proactively to identify audit and compliance-related issues to reduce the risk of security exposures on the support systems and implement improvements.
As you lead the Security Tools & Automation Team your focus will include:
* Creating a vision, clear direction and strategy for the team.
* Establish, manage, and coach team to clear objectives and performance expectations.
* Attract, motivate, develop, and retain a highly-skilled workforce.
* Constantly monitor and improve team efficiency, effectiveness, and impact.
* Lead and enable enterprise-wide thinking in the team.
Some of the key qualifications and experience required for the role include:
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is preferred, or 10+ years' experience.
* 7 or more years of experience working in IT infrastructure services and operations environment.
* Excellent negotiating skills and demonstrated skills in managing shared services team.
* Preferably five or more years of experience in large, cross-functional teams influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders across the organization and within complex contexts.
* Previous experience in managing enterprise monitoring/observability/tools/platforms.
* Process skills: an understanding of process costs, ability to work with the supplier to ensure effective operations and agreed upon service levels.
* Ability to lead, coach, develop, and mentor high-performing teams and ability to influence in a regulated, corporate enterprise environment.
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