Information Security Sr Advisor

Anticipated End Date:

2026-05-19

Position Title:

Information Security Sr Advisor

Job Description:

Location: Chicago IL, Woodland Hills CA, Seattle WA, Ashburn VA, Atlanta GA, New York NY, Indianapolis IN, Grand Prairie TX

Hours: Standard Working hours

Travel: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Position Overview:

Develops, recommends, and implements enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise key management and data protection solutions across hybrid and cloud environments. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in encryption technologies with strong solution engineering and stakeholder engagement skills.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• Leads system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies

• Leads development and execution of risk assessment methodologies to fit business, regulatory, and technical environment considerations

• Leads the development of requirements, system architecture, and software design of security products and services

• Leads the development of strategies for discovery, evaluation and response to new networking attacks

• Develops security incident response plans and strategies

• Provides trouble resolution and serves as point of technical escalation on complex problems

• Creates presentations and seeks IT management approval and acceptance of significant replacements or reconfigurations of major security systems serving the Enterprise

• Sets vendor strategy and direction

• May be assigned to project teams for technical consultation to business partners and developers

• Designs & engineers comprehensive access management and network security technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards; works with architecture to update technology direction & strategy

• Develops reports supporting strategy and direction for management

• Capable of serving as technical merger & acquisition lead

• Acts as a subject matter expert among peers, with manager and senior management

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise encryption and key management solutions using Thales CipherTrust Manager (CTM) and related Thales products (HSMs, key vaults, tokenization, etc.).

• Architect secure key lifecycle management processes, including key generation, rotation, escrow, revocation, and destruction.

• Integrate encryption and key management solutions with enterprise applications, databases, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and on-prem systems.

• Implement and support KMIP integrations and API-based key management solutions.

• Partner with security architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure encryption best practices are embedded into system designs.

• Conduct encryption posture assessments and recommend remediation plans.

• Support compliance initiatives (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOX, GDPR, etc.) related to data protection and cryptographic controls.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex encryption and key management issues.

• Develop technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.

• Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 5 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets: 1) Access Control, 2) Application Security, 3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, 4) Cryptography, 5) Information Security and Risk Management 6) Legal, Regulations, 7) Compliance and Investigations, 8) Operations Security, 9) Physical (Environmental) Security, 10) Security Architecture and Design, 11) Telecommunications and Network Security