About The Role

To plan, supervise and direct the engineering functions within the Cybersecurity Technology Engineering (CTE) team. Collaborate with managers within the CTE to define the strategic vision for the team. Provide leadership, guidance, and technical guidance to ensure appropriate security protocols are leveraged to protect NFCU's brand, data, and IT assets from cyber-based threats.

Serve as the technical manager for firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, network access controls and microsegmentation
Review and approve production change requests
Manage a team of about 15 network security engineers
Provide vision for the future direction of the Cybersecurity posture of the enterprise
Manage the deployment of new infrastructure and migration from legacy infrastructure
Manage the daily operations for firewalls, network access controls, and intrusion prevention systems
Ensure a standardized approach to network security policy management
Act as an escalation source for on-call engineers
Oversee the assessment and review of current technology to identify key risk areas to ensure an adequate level of control is in place to address risks
Oversee vulnerability and threat assessments, mitigation and reporting activities
Ensure that work quality, work methods, procedures, processes, and production statistics meet business goals and standards of member service
Oversee the development of technical documentation
Act as a liaison for internal and external auditors
Ability to brief senior leadership on the team’s activities and incident response
Act as the hiring authority for employees and contractors
Perform other duties as assigned
Minimum of 5 years of experience in a network engineering or cybersecurity engineering position (10 years preferred)
Served as a lead engineer or a manager on a network security team
Experience with a common network security tool, such as firewalls, IPS/IDS, and/or ISE
Experience with change control procedures
Expert knowledge of cyber/information security systems engineering lifecycle
Experience managing multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals
Ability to work with all levels of staff, management, stakeholders, vendors
Advanced skill interacting with staff, management, vendors and members diplomatically and tactfully
Advanced analytical thinking skills include summarizing information and clearly identifying key elements, patterns, results or relationships
Advanced research, analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications

Experience in managing a cybersecurity team for a medium to large size organization
Understanding of how to migrate layer 4 security policies to layer 7 policies
Experience in firewall rule remediation with the use of Firemon or similar application
GIAC, CEH, CISSP, Security+, or related Information Security certifications
Professional Certification in one of the following- CCNP, CISSP, CCIE, PCNSE
Experience in leading successful IT projects
Demonstrated proficiency in establishing processes and procedures