Director, Cloud Security and Operations

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, DevOps, Effective communication skills, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IaaS, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Microsoft Office suites, Operations, PaaS, Planning and organization

Job Description

The Director of Cloud Security and Operations builds and leads the team responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing cloud technologies through the implementation of industry best practices across Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH). Responsible for partnering with Enterprise and Technology leaders to drive HMH cloud strategy and transformation aligning with business objectives. Will interface directly with senior business and technology leaders to transform HMH current business and technology capabilities by defining the target state, roadmaps, and identifying new and emerging technologies that will transform and optimize the business. As an organizational leader, serves and inspires a team of high-performing architects, engineers, and operations personnel who will be coached, mentored, and empowered. Visionary executive with a track record of building high-quality enterprise solutions and teams that are results-driven. Brings strong architecture, engineering, and operations skills and a deep understanding of modern technologies including cloud-native, Application Programming Interfaces (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).

Responsibilities

A day in the life of a Director of Cloud Security and Operations at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Drives cloud strategy, governance, and execution through partnership and driving alignment with key business and technology team members.
• Establish and evolve a unified architecture vision working with architecture leaders to enable business imperatives.
• Displays strong thought leadership in pursuit of modern architecture principles and technology modernization. 
• Drives continuous technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
• Looks for opportunities to capitalize on technology advances through analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential impact on the enterprise. 
• Defines and leads technology proof of concepts to ensure feasibility of new technology architecture solutions.
• Responsible for cloud risk reporting to senior leadership and the board of directors.
• Responsible for managing and maintaining cloud service provider relationships and monitoring compliance. 
• Responsible for developing a cloud education plan, training programs, and a knowledge hub for direct team members and the broader HMH organization as technologies are adopted.
• Establishes team goals for governing performance, security, compliance, availability and capacity, and tracks and reports on overall team achievement. 
• Oversees all cloud development and operations (DevOps) and maintains cloud DevOps in accordance with the standard operating procedures (SOP's), auditing requirements, and disaster recovery plans. 
• Oversees the generation of cloud policies, procedures, and standard operating procedures (SOP's) for HMH cloud technologies and ensures standard processes are followed (e.g. vulnerability management, risk management, problem management, incident management, DevOps,). Proposes and implements changes to the same in consultation with other HMH technology teams as cloud transforms business or technology processes. 
• Monitors team performance and workload and optimizes operational tasks accordingly to ensure service level targets are met or escalated.
• Communicates effectively with key stakeholders regarding the delivery of excellent service oriented support. 
• Acts as an advisor to others to ensure production quality solutions, work schedules are met and technical and operations problems are resolved.
• Deliver results by working with virtual teams under a challenging, often tactical, environment.
• Reviews and approves capital planning, budgeting, and vendor selection and management.
• Responsible for personnel actions including hiring, performance management, and termination.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor's degree preferred, but would consider Associate's degree plus experience outlined below.
• Minimum of 15+ years of overall IT experience, including cybersecurity and cloud work experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud transformation concepts with SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms and the architectural knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Wide breadth of knowledge across security products, tools, and industry trends; ability to create solutions using a pragmatic, risk-based approach.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts and architecture, including security considerations associated with networking hardware like routers, switches, firewalls, gateways, etc.
• Understanding of malware, emerging threats, attacks, and vulnerability management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills that may include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Strong deductive reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, and prioritization skills.
• Experience assisting the development and maintenance of tools, procedure, and documentation.
• Track record of effective project management and project delivery. 
• Strong service mentality including the resolution of stakeholder escalations and incident management. 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.
• Ability to develop detailed process and procedure documentation.
• Ability to present complex solutions and methods to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
• Strong team player who collaborates well with others to solve problems.
• Strong interpersonal, problem solving, and communication skills.

Licenses and Certifications Required:

• At least one of the following professional security certifications at hire or must obtain within one (1) year of hire: GIAC certifications, OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), SSCP (Systems Security Certified Practitioner), Cloud Security Alliance: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), or comparable.

Licenses and Certifications Preferred:

• Cloud Engineering or Security certifications (e.g.; AWS Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, etc.).