Director Security Operations Center Jobs in Springfield, MA

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Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

You Are:

Security and Risk professionals develop and deliver solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications and data by establishing policies, practices and tools that prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification or disruption. A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:

Provides solutions to complex business problems for area(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in depth knowledge of organizational objectives. Involved in setting strategic direction to establish near term goals for area of responsibility. Interacts with senior management levels at a client and/or within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing on significant matters. Has latitude in decision-making and determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments . Decisions have a lasting impact on area of responsibility with the potential to impact outside area of responsibility. Manages large teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

We are currently looking for Senior Managers for our Security practice with extensive experience in cloud security strategy, architecture, implementation and operations for client sales and delivery projects.

The Work (Key Responsibilities):

• Help develop, foster and sell network security projects

• Drive the development and upskill of junior resources

• Design and deliver network security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings and solutions for clients as well as the following: Support the delivery of Accenture's security offerings related to cloud security, including security governance (security policies and procedures), security strategy (security planning), risk (risk assessments and management), cloud data protection (classification, encryption, tokenization), cloud-based identity and access management, technology/provider-specific cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Softlayer, VMware) and monitoring/analytics for and in the cloud

• Ability to interpret relevance of security controls to relevant compliance with legal, best-practice, and regulatory requirements for cloud environments.

• Developing and presenting at industry conferences as an expert in the Cloud Security field

• Lead the growth, development and support junior cloud security resources

• Understand engagements, business drivers and security enablement opportunities as it relates to our client's business

• Demonstrate ability to lead and manage business development / proposal efforts

• Business development responsibilities around cloud & network security including origination, capture and relationship development

• Ability to translate technical cloud security requirements into business terms for executive stakeholders

• Conduct cloud and infrastructure security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations

• Deliver services that meet Accenture Project quality specifications

• Ability to take initiative to communicate, interact, and collaborate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed

Here’s What You Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum 5 years of experience with Palo Alto Network, Zscaler, Fortinet, Cisco, Netskope (SASE, Firewalls, and/or Edge

• Minimum 5 years Hands on experience and knowledge with network security concepts and architectures around Zero Trust and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), macro/micro-segmentation (Illumio, Guardicore)

• Minimum of 6 years managing projects using a standardized set of project management principles

• Minimum of 6 years of technical writing and report generation

• Minimum of 5 years of managing teams of 5 or more resources

• Minimum 5 years of experience with Cloud & Network Security vendors

• Minimum 5 years of experience Enterprise IT security risk assessments and related frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000 series, NIST 800 Series, COBIT, IT General Controls, etc.)

• Minimum 5 years of experience conceptual knowledge of the following regulations: PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA

• Minimum 5 years of experience with multiple, simultaneous vendor management

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

• Travel will be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 75 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Skills):

• Experience in IT Security Testing (e.g., penetration testing, web application security assessments, vulnerability assessments and technical security assessments

• Experience in Identity and Access Management

• Experience in Infrastructure & Cloud Security (virtualized environments a plus)

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems

• Experience with application development

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