Director of Security Governance and Compliance Job (Cambridge, MA, US)

Location:	Cambridge, MA, US	Posted Date:	2016-02-09 00:00:00.0
Category:	Security	ID:	49244

Overview:

About the Job
Akamai Infosec believes in using compliance to drive real security improvement. This role is at the heart of that commitment, as it owns both our assessments against information security standards and the operational processes that satisfy them. You will lead a team of compliance and engineering professionals to get ahead of coming changes in the security standards space, comprehend new market requirements driven by evolving compliance needs, guide the product and platform engineering teams to meet them, and explain this comprehensively to assessors. Where necessary, you’ll combine software and human processes to create new controls or new inspection tools.

The heart of this role is in driving an integrated program of compliance work across Akamai’s product and platform engineering teams. The existing compliance team excels at learning existing standards and at measuring the work of our engineering colleagues in their terms. As the director, you’ll be the principal voice in senior management planning conversations about work we need to do to meet our customers’ demand for standards compliance.

About the Team
Akamai's Infosec Team is responsible for safeguarding the security of the business, from corporate information security through protection of the production systems on the Internet. The Governance and Compliance team works closely with product and platform teams throughout the company to help ensure that Akamai systems meet both the safety and compliance needs of our customers and the public. Team roles include Compliance Analyst, Technical Program Manager, Librarian, Researcher, and Architect.

Responsibilities:

- Lead Akamai’s Security Governance and Compliance team. Work through subordinate managers to build and deploy a team of architects, program managers, and more.
- Serve as the primary authority on compliance matters throughout the company, particularly to the product engineering teams.
- Together with the Adversarial Resilience and Safety Engineering teams, advise on the development of new products across the business.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of experience in a program management or operational leadership role
- Minimum 5 years of experience in roles that require driving programs across a multi-business enterprise
- Minimum 5 years of experience hiring, managing, and developing high performing teams
- Minimum 5 years of experience with information or technology security, including
- Minimum 5 years of experience with information security standards, including any of PCI, SOC2, ISO 17799, ISO 27002, Sarbanes-Oxley, European Data Privacy, or HIPAA.
Desired Qualifications
- BS in engineering, science, or mathematics
- Familiarity in Internet facing business
- Experience in a business-to-business, enterprise market
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with distant colleagues as well as local staff
- Superb written and oral communications skills

Other Information
- Is relocation available for this position: No
- Is US Citizenship required: Yes
- Is a Security Clearance Required: No
- If yes, applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation & must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

About Akamai:

Akamai® is the leading content delivery network (CDN) providing cloud services that help deliver, optimize, and secure online content and business applications. At the foundation of Akamai solutions, the Akamai Intelligent Platform^TM enables unmatched speed, reliability, and security–backed by expertise and relentless innovation–to improve reach and invisibility across the web. Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to more securely leverage the cloud. To learn how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, visit www.akamai.com, and follow @Akamaijobs on Twitter.


Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status. EEO is the Law.