Security Risk & Compliance Program Manager

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Your role and responsibilities
As the Security Technical Program Manager in the Trust & Security organization, you will play a critical role in fulfilling the vision to secure Confluent’s platform and cloud offerings through a combination of technical expertise, security experience, and excellent program management skills. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time, running significant security programs that span the entire company, and participating in operational security exercises, such as incident response and vulnerability management.

What You Will Do:

Manage and scale security programs by defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation, and successful on-time delivery with minimal supervision
Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects
Drive automation and process improvements for security programs
Explain technical architecture, decisions, and tradeoffs to both engineering and other functions
Work with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
Work with stakeholders to drive cross-cutting and/or critical security initiatives for the company
Participate in operational security work, including incident response and vulnerability management
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
3-5 years of relevant industry experience
Security experience is essential for this role
Experience in running long-term security programs that deliver iterative improvements and risk reduction over time
Experience in operational security work, such as incident response and vulnerability management, M&A
Experience driving complex and massive projects across the organizations
Experience in areas such as release management, cost modeling, and capacity planning is a plus
Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills to work with both engineering and other non-technical stakeholders
Experience managing end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects
Strong technical skills
Experience in actual design and development of software projects is a plus
Experience in standing up or scaling an incident response and detection engineering program is a plus
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Years of Experience:

4 - 8

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Job Title

Security Technical Program Manager:

Job ID
124646
City / Township / Village
Bangalore
State / Province
Karnataka
Country
India
Work arrangement
Remote
Area of work
Software Engineering
Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Some travel may be required based on business demand
Company
(0063) IBM India Private Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
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