Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity; Hybrid - Kennesaw, GA

Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity (Hybrid - Kennesaw, GA)

Company Overview:
Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons’ most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager of Cybersecurity with strong expertise in Infrastructure, including servers, networks, and enterprise security practices. This role will lead a team of cybersecurity professionals to safeguard the organization’s technology environment, ensure compliance, and reduce risk exposure.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of the organization’s cybersecurity program.
• Oversee security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure secure configuration and patching of servers and network environments.
• Develop, enforce, and monitor security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Lead risk assessments and remediation initiatives across servers, applications, and network infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards.
• Drive strategic security initiatives including Zero Trust, network segmentation, and identity/access management.
• Collaborate with IT, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed security in system architecture and deployment.
• Mentor, coach, and grow a team of cybersecurity engineers and analysts.
• Present risk posture, incidents, and security metrics to executive leadership.
• Oversee threat intelligence and proactively adjust defenses based on emerging threats.
• Manage third-party/vendor security assessments and ongoing monitoring of external partners.
• Establish and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans from a cybersecurity perspective.
• Drive security awareness training programs across the organization to reduce human risk factors.
• Work with application development teams to ensure secure coding practices and regular security testing.
• Lead cloud security initiatives including workload protection, IAM, and compliance monitoring.
• Implement advanced monitoring and automation strategies to improve incident detection and response times.
• Serve as a key liaison between cybersecurity and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of security strategy with organizational objectives.
• Establish and chair cross-functional governance forums to drive cybersecurity decision-making and accountability across business units.
• Partner with risk management, legal, compliance, and audit teams to embed cybersecurity into enterprise governance and oversight structures.
• Translate complex cybersecurity risks into clear, business-relevant impacts to secure executive and board-level buy-in.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field;
  Master’s preferred.
• 8–12 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3–5 years in a management role.
• Deep knowledge of server security and network security.
• Proven experience with security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management tools.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, DLP, and identity/access management solutions.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CEH, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Artivion, Inc. is an equal opportunities employer.