
Cyber Security Design Sr Specialist at SAP
About the role
We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly organized and process-oriented cybersecurity professional to support and enhance enterprise Incident Response (IR) operations and governance activities. This role serves as a key liaison between Incident Response teams, Lines of Business (Lo Bs), Product Groups, and compliance stakeholders to ensure effective operational execution, regulatory alignment, executive reporting, and continuous program improvement.
The ideal candidate combines strong operational awareness with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, helping translate technical incident response activities into meaningful business insights and measurable program outcomes.
What you'll do
- Maintaining / Creation of process and procedure documentation
- Overseeing and enabling customer notification processes
- Support and monitoring for regulatory compliance and audit activities
- Support and monitoring of Incident Response team activities
- Enablement and maintenance of relationships with lines of businesses (Lo Bs / Product groups)
- Develop, track, and consistently improve executive-level metrics for program performance
- Author and execute tabletop exercises between IR team and Lo Bs
What you bring
- 3-7+ Years of experience in Cyber Security Operations or incident response environments, and / or IT service management (ITSM) or major incident management
- Process improvement leadership
- Highly organized with the ability to lead meetings and engage stakeholders
- Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, solution oriented, and to learn and adapt quickly.
- Excellent written, presentation, and oral communication skills
- Ability to translate technical findings into business relevant insights
- Familiarity with cyber security frameworks and standards such as: NIST / ISO/ SOC2
Additional Preferred Skills
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Experience in tools such as:
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Service Now / JIRA
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Collaboration Tools (Microsoft Office / Teams / Sharepoint)
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Certifications related to cybersecurity and / or project management
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Security+ / CISSP / CISM
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PMP / GCPM / GSTRT / ITIL / CSM
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
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Requisition ID: 452539 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time or Part Time | Additional Locations: #
Required skills
Security architecture
Threat modeling
Risk assessment
Cloud security
Security controls
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