Manager - Cyber Exercise

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What you’ll be doing...

The Cyber Exercise Manager Role will serve as the leader for the Verizon Threat Management Center - Cyber Exercise program (TMC-CE) and will oversee a team of Analysts planning, designing, and executing cyber focused exercises. The Cyber Exercise Manager is responsible for the full life-cycle of exercise activities (plan, design, execution, and evaluation) across Verizon businesses and cyber security teams in a controlled environment helping to identify gaps in people, processes, and technology. This position is considered a thought leader, making key decisions on; how to structure and guide cyber exercises, communicating with senior leaders on current status and outcomes, and validating new cyber security initiatives’ implementation and/or effectiveness by testing/validating our Cyber Response Plan. The result of these activities support the overall team strategy and strengthen our incident response and coordination processes.

• Perform exercise planning, scenario development, training objectives, after action reports, lessons learned, and briefings to senior leaders
• Facilitate table top exercises for key leaders and stakeholders, testing communication, escalations and deliberations on key decisions
• Build and maintain an effective cyber exercise and training program across Verizon
• Identifying additional training opportunities for security teams and end-users
• Establish an in-house cyber exercise and training program capability integrated with Business Continuity and Emergency Management (BCEM) teams based on repeatable best practice processes
• Utilize exercises to validate new cyber security initiatives’ implementations and/or effectiveness by testing/validating our Cyber Response Plan
• Evaluate and coordinate with various range providers
• Identify and plan the creation of threat simulations for use on persistent cyber training environments
• Facilitate exercises to constantly improve cyber security incident response via process improvement and security control effectiveness
• Enhance collaboration on cyber incident readiness with Verizon business partners and vendors
• Provide training and mentoring of junior and mid-career team members
• Attract, retain, and lead a team of employees by educating, developing and managing to deliver strong results
• Responsible for all aspects of the team’s performance management activities to include goal setting, conducting reviews, check-ins, and disciplinary action, as needed

Where you'll be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience leading or working with a Cyber Exercise program.
• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Experience working with Incident Response and Security Operations Center (SOC) processes.
• Fully trained on the Plan, Brief, Execute, and Debrief (PBED) process.
• Ability to balance multiple competing priorities in a high pressure environment
• Demonstrated supervisory, leadership and mentoring experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience presenting to executive and senior leadership
• Strong relationship skills and collaborative style to enable success across multiple partners
• Demonstrates effective organizational and technical skills
• Exhibits initiative, follow-up and follow through with commitments
• Manages multiple priorities in a high pressure environment
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

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