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The Director, Cybersecurity Operations leads the development, implementation, and ongoing coordination of enterprise-wide cybersecurity operations, including Threat Engineering, Threat Detection, Cybersecurity Industry Threats Coordination, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Email Security, the Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Analysis and Incident Response, Cybersecurity Logging & Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, Application Security, Data Security, Insider Trust, Threat Intelligence, and Cyber Threat Hunting. (S)he coordinates across all business lines, service departments, and external risk organizations (e.g. Law Enforcement, cross-sector cyber industry trade organizations) and peer energy companies. As PSEG's senior leader responsible for cybersecurity operations, (s)he will also be responsible for defining and aligning cybersecurity policies, strategy, and standards, and for governing actual cybersecurity operations, including overseeing an internal SOC and manage service provider, and for maintaining an Incident Response program to ensure appropriate responses to cybersecurity incidents. During an incident, (s)he will be designed as lead cyber incident commander and will be responsible for the containment, eradication, and recovery, as applicable. (S)he will be responsible for multiple discrete projects/enhancements to build, maintain, and mature capabilities, including people, processes, and technologies. (S)he will engage across the entire IT, OT, and managed services landscapes, including leading a team across these environments.

Responsibilities include stopping/mitigating complex attacks, executing on key operational decisions with potentially high impact affecting attacks and threats facing PSEG, ensuring the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of our SOC, acting as a SOC thought leader, ensuring adherence to cybersecurity controls, policies and standards with a focus on automation and control, assessing the current IT architecture, business needs, and future requirements as they relate to the SOC, determining cybersecurity requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements, researching standards, conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments, studying architectures/platforms, identifying integration issues, and preparing cost estimates, verifying that processes/systems comply with laws/regulatory requirements from local/national governments, preparing for, and potentially presenting at, Cyber Council, Senior Executive Team, and Board of Directors meetings, preparing senior-level technical reports for executive management, engaging in ongoing communications with peers in IT and business (e.g. Legal, HR, Security) to ensure enterprise wide understanding of cybersecurity goals, to solicit feedback and to foster cooperation, managing relationships with third party service providers, including contract language negotiations, maintaining up-to-date cybersecurity knowledge, including awareness of innovative solutions/processes, emerging standards, and new threat vectors by reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.

Directs, coaches, and counsels internal/external cyber resources on Cybersecurity technologies, ensures that Cybersecurity Operations service delivery aligns with the corporate IT strategy, including development of Cybersecurity operations standards, capacity planning, lifecycle management plans, solution selection, and partner management, ensures scalability of Cybersecurity Operations capabilities, including hardware and software, to meet business needs and risk tolerances, develops and implements best practices for PSEG Cybersecurity Operations capabilities, participates in external risk organizations (including with peer groups) to learn from other organizations and to benchmark our program, partners with professional Cybersecurity Operations associations, service providers, and to identify and implement best practices, partners with and advises various IT teams, operationalizes threat models to protect against existing and emerging threats, builds relationships across PSEG business and technology teams, interacts routinely with vendors, service providers, consultants/advisors, law enforcement agencies, and cross-sector cyber industry trade organizations, ensures that cyber operations requirements are identified, well defined, properly documented, and approved by appropriate stakeholders, develops, manages, and pre-prioritizes Cybersecurity CAPEX and OPEX budgets based on business needs and cyber threats, lead the identification of optimal OPEX and CAPEX allocations, including opportunities to reduce expenditures while transforming PSEG Cybersecurity Operations, lead and advise on business case development, leads team, including performance evaluations, career development guidance, and other aspects to grow the talent pipeline and to mature our program.