Director - Network Security

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7000 Target Pkwy N,NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park,MN 55445time type:
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** Director Technology - Network Security
** As the Director of Technology for Network Security, you are responsible for the overall technical health, long-term strategy, team, financials and maturity of the capabilities needed to secure Target’s networks. This includes network segmentation and firewalls, web proxy, internet gateways, intrusion prevention, denial of service coordination, web application firewall, SSL/TLS inspection and other capabilities. As cyber threats grow in sophistication and scale, this role is pivotal to ensuring the resilience and trustworthiness of the platforms that power Target’s operations, guest experiences, and partner integrations.

You will foster close relationships with the network engineering teams as well as teams across Target’s cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture and engineering teams. Ensuring that technology is healthy, scalable and robust by influencing the technology direction and introducing techniques is critical. Deep understanding of network security practices and vision for technology solutions is required. Owning root cause analysis and forward planning of platform issues and keeping up with technology trends and advances in your area is important.

You’ll build strong internal and external partnerships and serve as an extension of your team for strategic direction and overall business decisions and taking responsibility for managing key technology vendors and external partners. A good understanding of Data Science and ML ops is a plus.

Use your skills, experience and talents to lead Network Security into the next generation of capabilities.
** As a Director of Technology, you will:
*** Assess and design the future architecture of Network Security considering business impact and modern network design concepts like zero-trust.
* Use and continue to deepen your knowledge of networking engineering.
* Ensure operational maturity, system stability and observability.
* Balance cost and functionality in the future capability vision.
* Drive the maturity of network threat detection capabilities, enabling visibility into east-west traffic, cloud infrastructure, and hybrid environments.
* Define KPIs and metrics to continually improve time to detect and respond (MTTD/MTTR) to network-based threats.
* Continuously evaluate new threats, attack vectors, and emerging technologies to inform roadmap planning and proactive risk reduction.
* Drive integration between network telemetry and Target’s security operations center (SOC) to enhance visibility and threat hunting.
* Champion automation and orchestration in the network security space to reduce manual effort and increase response times.
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* About you:

*** 4 year degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* 7+ years of network or cybersecurity experience
* 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional products
* Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear…