Your Role and Responsibilities
Our mission is to revolutionize customer service by developing and deploying the latest conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology in IBM's industry-leading conversational AI products. We are proud of our state-of-the-art, secure and scalable application infrastructure, where data confidentiality, performance and security are the primary requirements. We believe in open architectures and open standards, and we run our cutting-edge AI on every cloud.

We are passionate about designing elegant APIs, microservices, Hybrid Cloud based AI applications and databases with huge datasets. If you share our passion for great software secure engineering, working in cross-functional teams, and fast-paced challenging projects, this is the job for you!

Your Role and Responsibilities

This position is for the Security and Compliance lead on our team, who will take on varied responsibilities in assuring the security and compliance of IBM watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate. The candidate should have a passion for working with engineering teams daily on security related issues, has a willingness to learn, and recognizes and fills gaps related to defined security controls that must be implemented as part of our defined business processes. You will also work closely with the broader IBM Security subject matter experts, Product Managers and Customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, think like both an attacker and defender, please get in touch with us!

The candidate should have a general background in information technology and be willing to gain experience on the job while working across the organization, hand in hand with peer security focal points. You will help create solutions that balance business requirements with company information and IBM security requirements. We value security related technical knowledge in any of the following fields: Cryptography, Network, Infrastructure, Software Security, CICD Pipelines, Virtualization, Cloud-Native Technologies and Cloud Infrastructure, Application Security, Malware Analysis, Security Operations, and Incident Response.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensures IBM software meets regulatory and security compliance requirements

• Strive to reduce risk and maintain compliance to IBM's IT Security Standards

• Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures, and provide recommendations on security related decisions and improvements

• Supports other compliance focal points by participating in security reviews/audits and providing compliance evidence, as required

• Assist in coordination to address vulnerabilities and penetration type testing activities

• Act as a primary security contact for IBM watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience working in security areas dealing with secure engineering, security controls,vulnerabilities, and audits, etc.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies with the ability to describe security concerns and what the impact might be for an organization.
• Good communication and critical thinking skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Kubernetes/Containers experience, command line knowledge.
• External audit standards and process knowledge (ISO 27K, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FedRAMP).
• General development, scripting knowledge and use of APIs for utilities, comfortable with GitHub and ZenHub, experience with code scanning and analysis of results.
• Familiarity with IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift Platforms or other Public Cloud platforms.