Senior Manager Cyber Security Threats

About the role

At IBM, the Senior Manager, Cyber Threats inspires, engages and motivates their staff to deliver practical, real-world benefits to the defense of IBM’s cyber security. This is a high-visibility role with the potential to make a real difference within one of the technology sector’s most well-established companies. The role reports to the Vice President of Cyber Security Defense and has three primary responsibilities: First-line manager to the TI team, which comprises a multi-disciplinary group of analysts, investigators and related technical specialists. First-line manager to the TH Manager, who in turn manages the TH practitioners. The Senior Manager is the de facto Second-line Manager of the TH team. Overall technical and business area lead for Threats, setting direction and strategy for Threats to inform and shape IBM’s defensive cyber security posture.

Responsibilities

• The Cyber Security Threats Senior Manager plays an important role in the wider cyber security operations leadership team – providing advice, guidance and support on intelligence, hunting and wider threat-related matters.
• The Senior Manager sets the Threats strategy, which includes enacting specific elements and contributing to medium/long-term objectives.
• The Senior Manager is responsible for fulfilling the objectives of the Cyber Security Defense Vice President, which may include specific task-level delegations and representing IBM in external matters.
• The Senior Manager ensures the team is contributing accurate, relevant and reliable Threats ‘products’ – specifically:
  • Ensuring both teams’ focus is set appropriately.
  • Maintaining overall control of the Threats backlog.
  • Balancing