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Chief Information Security Officer; CISO

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: Altera
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-20
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Information Security & Data Protection, Cybersecurity, IT Consultant, IT Project Manager
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 180000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 180000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Apply locations San Jose time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition  R00594

Job Details:
Job Description:

Role Overview :
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Chief Information Security Officer to lead the process of all assurance activities related to the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee, and business information in compliance with the organization's information security policies. A key element of the CISO's role is working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization.

This position is responsible for establishing and maintaining a corporate-wide information security management program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected.

About the Role:

  • Strategic Leadership:
    Develop, implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program
    Work directly with the business units to facilitate risk assessment and risk management processes
    Assist with the overall business technology planning, providing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems
    Provide leadership to the enterprise's information security organization
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    Partner with business stakeholders across the company to raise awareness of risk management concerns
    Interact with Global Markets engineering stakeholders to understand and communicate risks to critical infrastructure and systems, defining potential business impact, and tracking commitments to apply effective mitigating controls
    Understand and interact with related disciplines through committees to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems, and services
  • Implementation Focus:
    Develop and enhance an information security management framework
    Drive adoption of application security, technology privacy, privilege management, and vulnerability management controls as part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and production management (Dev Ops) processes.
  • Qualifications:

    • Minimum of eight to 12 years of experience in a combination of risk management, information security, and IT jobs

    • Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST

    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity

    • Innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams

    • Experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management including managed services

    • Experience interfacing with and communicating complex technical security concepts to non-technical audiences

    • Information security policy, standards, guidelines or procedures development and implementation

    • Infrastructure, database and/or application security experience

    • Privilege management (i.e. access and identity management, access re-certification) experience

    • Control self-assessment, SOX
    404 technical control assessment, SOC 1/SOC 2 control assessment experience

    • Strong knowledge of control frameworks and the ability to design and evaluate effectiveness of controls embedded within business processes

    • Ability to work with large data sets, reporting dashboards and excel worksheets

    • Industry accepted security certifications including CISSP or CISM or CRISC or equivalent SANS certification

    • Specific experience in Agile (scaled) software development or other best in class development practices

    • Experience with Cloud computing/Elastic computing across virtualized environments.

    Job Type:

    Contract Employee (Fixed Term)

    Shift:

    Shift 1 (United States of America)

    Primary

    Location:

    San Jose

    Additional Locations:
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