Job Description

Who are we looking for

A Security Manager with strong people management and leadership skills. This person will join State Street's Security Platforms team, which is responsible for designing, configuring, and supporting the key security tools supporting our Cyber Fusion Center. Success in this role will require strong people management and operational effectiveness skills with a good security and service delivery background.

What will you be responsible for

• Team leadership and management, developing better work practices and outputs to our internal customers
• Effective communication skills while collaborating across various departments in providing clear, regular updates related to issues
• Regularly engage with tools and operations teams, such as our Cyber Defence Team in Kilkenny, Ireland, to understand how to help them work more effectively through us of our platforms
• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions
• Ensure the security of State Street by delivering the most capable and reliable security tools for our incident responders and threat hunters
• Monitor the coverage or visibility of our security platforms to ensure effective detection and response of host and network borne threats
• Contribute to projects that improve current capabilities, drive adoption, and enable future growth
• Represent the function at various project and stakeholder meetings

• Strong people and leadership skills, with a can-do attitude to drive successful outcomes
• Direct experience managing and leading teams
• Creating an environment that drives knowledge sharing
• Experience operating and supporting tools across multiple security domains such as: Network, Endpoint and Cloud
• Familiarity with a range of open source and commercial security tools, including their use cases, capabilities, and limitations
• Strong security knowledge, specifically in large and complex organisations
• Understanding of current security threats and other challenges, as well as frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK
• Experience of a 24/7 security operations environment emphasising speed of response, reliability, and tool availability
• A desire to learn, combined with a collaborative work style and strong personal work ethic
• Strong communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, with ability to provide direction and leadership to a growing team

• This is a role for an experienced people manager, expected to have 10+ years of relevant security and systems management experience (at least 5 years in security).
• This role requires an understanding of enterprise security tools and capabilities
• A degree is not required for this role, but a qualification in information security or information systems may be beneficial
• Experience with endpoint detection and response (EDR), advanced anti-malware, and other endpoint security tools may be beneficial
• Experience in distributed, international teams would be beneficial
• Experience in financial services may be beneficial

• This role may be filled in any of the following locations:
  • Ireland (Dublin or Kilkenny preferred, or remote), US (MA preferred or remote)
• This team supports 24/7 operations, therefore participation in an on-call rotation is required