AVP - Joint Operations & Cybersecurity Center

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities

• Leads day-to-day operational and cybersecurity monitoring
• Provides opportunities for professional development and career growth to staff
• Matures observability across the enterprise, including automation, AI-assisted predictive monitoring
• Collaborates with business stakeholders to form strong partnerships
• Partners with technology leadership to identify observability gaps and automation opportunities
• Executes a full range of management responsibilities including budget planning and vendor management
• Provides mentorship and development to strengthen your team's technical and organizational skills
• Adapts to the needs of the company as new cyber threats emerge and as company priorities and initiatives change

Requirements

• 7+ years as a leader and manager with a demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring
• Prior experience in defining and setting measurable success criteria (OKRs) for Application and Network Observability, Incident Management, and Incident Response
• Experience in managing and leading Network Operations Centers (NOC) and/or Security Operations Centers (SOC)
• Experience formulating and executing a technical strategy and roadmap
• Hands-on leadership and architecture experience with Site Reliability Engineering, MITRE ATT&CK, observability, network operations, and security monitoring
• Experience in managing network operations
• Experience in incident response
• Experience in Enterprise Tabletop
• Familiarity with APDEX and other methodologies for measuring and improving technical product responsiveness and resiliency across all layers of the OSI stack
• Executive presence and high emotional intelligence - superb interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills; ability to facilitate complex discussions and bring them to resolution
• 10+ years’ of focused technology experience including deep understanding and experience with network, application availability, and security monitoring
• 6+ years’ experience with security and monitoring considerations of cloud computing, infrastructure-as-code, and automation of incident response
• Exceptionally strong and current commercial executive and hands-on experience in most/all of these areas: incident management, incident response, network monitoring, chaos engineering, site reliability engineering, application monitoring
• Real passion for operational excellence in technology, learning mindset, preference for progress over perfection, outcome orientation, data-driven storytelling

Qualifications

• Required 7+ years as a leader and manager with a demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentoring
• Required 10+ years of focused technology experience including deep understanding and experience with network, application availability, and security monitoring
• Required 6+ years’ experience with security and monitoring considerations of cloud computing, infrastructure-as-code, and automation of incident response
• Required 7+ years of experience leading technical management teams
• Required 10+ years of work experience at a senior leadership level
• Required 5 years of experience leading technical management teams
• Required Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field
• Required HIPAA Training and Supervisors Orientation (within 30 days of hire)
• Required Leadership Development 101 (within one year)
• Required Costco Pay Policies (within 90 days of promotion)
• Preferred ServiceNow or Dynatrace experience
• Preferred GIAC Incident Handler Certification
• Preferred Fusion Center Experience
• Preferred Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance
• Health care reimbursement account
• Dependent care assistance plan
• Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase plan to eligible employees