Chief Cybersecurity Strategist

Requisition ID # 160099 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

The Information Technology (IT) organization designs, develops, operates and maintains the technology and telecommunications systems that enable PG&E to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable and affordable service to customers.

 

IT partners with the business by increasing capabilities through the development of additional functionality, implementing new technologies, reducing costs, increasing productivity, and facilitating organizational and business effectiveness through enabling technologies.

 

Position Summary

The Chief Cybersecurity Strategist is an individual contributor who is responsible for creating a broad vision for the ecosystem of security tools to optimize for efficiency, effectiveness, cost and ability to derive high quality, actionable intelligence. This individual will work with architecture and engineering teams, as well as operations teams to understand current state, and constantly research and present a compelling roadmap for security tools covering IT, OT, multi-cloud and third-party attack surfaces. The individual will own the remit of ensuring proper use of AI in defense and the ability to detect AI-based attacks. They will also be responsible for leading the “bend the cost curve” initiative for cybersecurity through platform enablement and tools consolidation where it makes sense.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

 

Reporting Relationship

The Chief Cybersecurity Strategist reports directly to the Vice President, Cybersecurity.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Provide vision for security tools arsenal
• Champion tools coverage and consolidation strategy
• Create and maintain visuals of technologies versus capabilities
• Manage roadmap of tools to show consolidation and replacements
• Understand evolving threat landscape to plan for how to detect and defend better
• Strategize and plan for both effectiveness and efficiency in tools ecosystem
• Work with Arch/Engineering team on platform consolidation strategy
• Provide updates and perspectives to cyber leadership team
• Create and manage decision-making framework for tool selection within security ecosystem
• Create, maintain and strategize on data flow and integration across separate systems for additional intelligence
• Work with all Cyber stakeholders and IT stakeholders to understand tools needs and create roadmap based on decision framework
• Measure, manage and increase usage of existing tools
• Look at strategic overhaul of tools ecosystem to build a brand-new scalable model of tools and data across Cybersecurity
• Work with Architecture/Engineering team to determine how to build AI-enabled capabilities into security tools ecosystem
• Work with Enterprise Architec