Compliance Leader

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Your role and responsibilities

We have a team of security compliance leaders overseeing solutions for this complex environment, collaborating with security architects and Cloud DevOps teams internally and around IBM. The security compliance leader's role is to determine the secure operation of the all computer systems, servers, and network connections in accordance with our policies, procedures, and compliance requirements. A security compliance leader in our team will participate in some or all of the following:

• Providing subject matter expertise in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of appropriate enterprise programs, policies, and procedures to be compliant with all applicable regulations including ISO, SOC, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP/FISMA

• Having the ability to utilize working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc

• Interpreting standards, requirements, and their application to the enterprise Cloud environment in the most reasonable and cost-effective manner

• Developing, implementing, maintaining, and overseeing enforcement of security policies

• Collaborating with security architects and technical security teams to define and implement security processes and procedures based on industry-standard best practices and compliance requirements. Defining the requirements and validating the procedures and audit testing methodology

• Conducting regularly scheduled audits on systems and hosting third-party audits as required in order to maintain certifications and compliance certificates.

• Working with the DevOps teams to prepare ongoing client reporting, information for prospective clients, and marketing materials

• Providing training to teams as needed

• Assisting team members and internal clients in addressing highly complex security issues applicable to enterprise environment

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Skills
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant compliance experience and cybersecurity knowledge

• Compliance leaders do not require dev experience, but it is an advantage. 3+ years of security compliance audit experience would be more appropriate

• Ability to utilize working knowledge of information security best practices such as: NIST 800 series, ISO 27000 series, GDPR, etc

• Experience with compliance programs such as FFIEC or FedRAMP/ FISMA, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, or PCI

• Experience in risk assessment processes, policy development, proposals, work statements, product evaluations, and delivery of technology

• Ability to understand enterprise business computing operations/requirements, and in particular, Cloud

• Ability to stand firm on issues yet be flexible and creative when working with customers to find effective solutions

• Ability to understand and interpret laws and regulatory requirements related to information protection, and develop and implement appropriate processes to achieve and maintain compliance and reduce risk

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Working in a change-controlled production environment.
• Diagnosing the root cause of problems and propose solutions: Examples would be failed patches, tooling issues, false positives on system tests, authentication problems.
• Expertise in system configuration, especially privilege control (for example sudoer configuration), and system level firewall (iptables)
• An understanding of basic networking concepts: ipsec tunnels, firewalls, routers, public and private addressing.

• Project Management knowledge and experience a strong plus

• Experience with operations of data centres or Cloud, and networking security including security systems such as firewalls, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, OS patching, healthchecking

• Experience with container based architectures and implementations such as kubernetes, docker, etc.

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