Security Operation Senior Manager

Job Description

At K&L Gates, we are looking for smart, imaginative and hard-working people with diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas to join us. Perhaps our search for talented visionaries and your search for important and impactful work lead to the same place.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Security Operations to join the firm. The Senior Manager, Security Operations oversees cyber security, forensics, incident response, and physical security operations for the firm. Responsibilities include implementing monitoring technologies, incident response systems, and a comprehensive security strategy. They convert business needs into technical specifications, ensuring firm and client data security while maintaining compliance standards. This role ensures security objectives are met within time and budget constraints.

Additionally, the position identifies improvement areas within existing programmatic goals, ensuring optimal use of security technologies and robust operational effectiveness.

IT Leadership, Chief Officers, Department Directors, Directors of Administration, Office Administrators, General Counsel

• Implementing comprehensive strategies for network monitoring and intrusion detection analysis using defense tools like firewalls, intrusion detection / prevention systems, and host-based security systems.
• Performing log-based and endpoint-based threat detection to identify and safeguard against risks originating from various sources.
• Overseeing deployment of cloud-based detection to identify threats associated with cloud environments and firm-utilized services.
• Correlating activity across assets like endpoints, networks, and apps, as well as environments such as on-premises and cloud, to identify anomalous activity.
• Reviewing alerts and sensor data while documenting formal technical incident reports.
• Ensuring incident response support for network subscribers, including implementing containment and mitigation actions and coordinating forensic analysis when required.
• Supporting the creation of business continuity / disaster recovery plans, including conducting disaster recovery tests, publishing test results and addressing deficiencies
• Working with security information and event management (SIEM) to manage / tune the system, create / manage the detection content and actively watch for alerts
• Researching emerging threats and vulnerabilities to assist with identifying incidents.
• Conducting regular training sessions on intrusion detection, prevention systems, security incident response procedures, threat intelligence analysis, and log analysis within the team.

• Possess Bachelors degree OR equal experience in the computer science, information security, cybersecurity or other related fields
• Demonstrate expertise in Dev Sec Ops  security principles and industry best practices.
• Demonstrate experience in security automation and utilizing Generative AI to enhance security operations.
• Demonstrate the ability to build and sustain productive working relationships across every level of the firm.
• Demonstrate proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Demonstrate experience working in multi-cloud environments, including platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• 10+ years experience in IT audit, enterprise risk management, penetration testing, red teaming, incident response and physical security operations
• 10+ years experience with regulatory compliance and information security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIS 800-171
• Demonstrate expertise in leading remote teams including performance management, succession planning, and fostering employee growth and development.

The compensation salary for this position will be determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to prior experience, relevant expertise, current business needs, and market factors.

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents in more than 40 offices. We have experienced dramatic growth in the past decade and now rank among the largest U.S. based law firms in the world. We take pride in constantly striving for innovation, imagination and an entrepreneurial spirit. We come up with big ideas and then roll up our sleeves to get the job done, guiding our clients through their most complex issues in a variety of industry sectors and across multiple regions of the world.

The industry recognition the firm has garnered emanates from the foundation of a global community aligned on behalf of our clients. The people at K&L Gates are committed to working together to create a legacy for each other, the firm, our clients, and the communities in which we serve. We thrive in an inclusive and socially conscious environment that embraces diversity and takes a holistic approach to the career evolution of all our professionals.