Director: Security Practice Management

The Director of Security Practice Management (DSPM) is a key member of the organization as an evangelist, architect, and visionary responsible for understanding security industry trends, customer security needs, and security compliance as it relates the Coretek client base, partners, and service offerings. This role is critical in the creating, planning, implementing, and messaging of the Coretek security service offerings. The DSPM will be responsible for being a key senior resource and virtual security advisor to customer leadership as part of the strategic discussions in the sales process.  The DSPM is an internal leader for the security practice and collaborates with senior engineers, enterprise architects, pre-sales, business stake holders, customers, and technology partners to assess opportunities for new technology, updated or new managed security services, processes, or enhancements to existing platforms and managed security services. As a senior resource, the DSPM is responsible for creating the detailed operationalization guidelines, working with technology leaders on architectures/blueprints and turning those into new or updated security services, and statement of work language of the updated or new security services.  

Essential Job Functions 

• Support the CSO in the continued growth and expansion of the Coretek Security Practice
• Function as security evangelist, advisor, content creator, and product manager
• Must be a people person and an educator.
• Must have consulting or internal advisory experience.
• Advisor in how to apply and run a security/risk program and the supporting services and needs for customer senior leadership, internal product management, internal SMEs, internal sales/pre-sales, and support education of the industry via events and materials.
• Must have operational experience in IT security.
• Understanding or experience in the operation of a security operations center, investigations, incident response, or digital forensics.
• Experience in participating or leading an organizational or tactical cyber security incident response cases is a plus.
• Must have experience in building or supporting a security program that meets a compliance framework (ex. NIST CSF, NIST 800-XXX, ISO 27XXX, CIS, etc.)
• Must be able to collaborate with the internal Architect security SME teams and provide security advisory for the operational ecosystem and support validating the security and data privacy standards, policies, and baselines for Coretek and Coretek’s managed services.
• Provide advisory and input to the future planning of the Coretek ticketing / SOAR systems, customer dashboards, and customer reporting for the platform.
• Serve as a security senior practitioner/advisor, as needed, for escalations, incidents, and other security initiatives.

Requirements

• For this position tenure in IT and security is important but not the deciding factor. Breadth of experience, entrepreneurial drive, and the advisor mindset with the ability to design, educate, communicate, and lead are more important than years in the business. 
• Knowledge and experience in building or leading a security practice, designing multifaceted and secure by design architectures or programs, a security evangelist/educator, or other security or entrepreneurial ventures. 
• Experience with hybrid/public cloud strategy is strongly encouraged. 
• MSP/MSSP experience either as a customer or provider strongly desired 
• Strong, in-depth analytical and critical thinking skills 
• Experience in a wide range of security tools or platforms 
• Industry Certifications including vendor certifications are a plus. 
• Good organizational and project management skills 
• Collaborator able to lead a small project team and work independently as needed. 
• Ability to effectively interact with other IT, Cyber Security, and Compliance Services professionals and communicate clearly with native and non-native English speakers.