Business Information Security Officer

LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come.  LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

Come Join an Inclusive Team

The Sr. BISO will provide tactical direction to the global and regional sites. This role is a hands-on role that will ensure the subject matter expertise, and processes for the effective execution of global cybersecurity program, support the computing systems of site’s business and process control systems to coordinate changes and provide security and to ensure optimum integrity, confidentiality, reliability, and availability.  The role acts as the main global and regional point of contact for the business and manufacturing in supporting the center led business systems security.  This role will be a security evangelist and drive company-wide focus to prevent, detect, and remediate cyber security threats.

A Day in the Life:

• Provide leadership to regional BISOs for day-to-day prioritization, project implementation, and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Oversee the operation of regional and local IT and ICS computing systems and security software including hardware and software lifecycle (Firewall, Anti Malware, Patch and Asset Management  , etc.).
• Ensure that all regional sites’ networks and systems comply with Corporate and Industry   standards;
• Contribute to internal documentation and standards (build documents, operational excellence, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, security whitepapers, Technical Designs)
• Help to validate the translation of the company policies from English into the local language (spoken by the BISOs as their first language) as optional if they have the capabilities.
• Advise or consult on OT changes initiated by IT and Site Management.
• Participate in Purdue Level 2 and 3  monitoring , including the review, validation and reporting of security metrics.
• Assist in Operational Excellence audit support, Site Vulnerability Assessments and Cyber Process Hazard Analysis.
• Lead project design and implementation
• Facilitate forensics investigations and incident follow-up.
• Support the design, implementation and documentation of (security) OT and M&A projects and initiatives.
• Ensure effective regional security awareness program implementation and training.
• Lead technical direction and strategy for ICS systems architecture and security 
• Improve overall cyber resilience to the next level of maturity and effectiveness according with the defined BSS roadmap.
• Regularly analyze LyondellBasell’s intrusion protection processes and lead efforts to improve it through automation, integration, and aggregation.
• Provide information protection expertise to IT operational teams to ensure systems are properly protected and monitored by design. Communicate threats appropriately.
• Profile new and emerging threats to the IT landscape and drive changes needed in response.
• Serve as a member to the event response team, providing mentoring to other team members as needed, while performing Level 2 support.
• Contribute ideas to the future state technology roadmap ensuring effective investments are made to enable scale, quality, and maintenance and overall cost effectiveness.
• Assist in setting technical direction and strategy for ICS systems architecture and security.
• Understand the security vulnerability management process and be able to conduct vulnerability assessments for the IT and ICS infrastructure, including mitigation and patch testing.

You Bring This Value :

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field, or equivalent professional experience
• Minimum of ten (10) years of experience in information security, information technology (IT), or operational technology (OT)
• Experience developing and refining risk-based, defense-in-depth security architectures based on established frameworks such as NIST or ISO
• Support for LyondellBasell’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategy and values.
• Exceptional communication and advocac