Director – Cloud Network Security - Zero Trust– ZTNA/SASE

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

As a Director, Cloud Network Security/Boundary Protection, you will be responsible for leading a global team with a focus on engineering and operations of FICO’s boundary protection services. This is a highly visible and critical role, working on complex cloud and corporate service edge protection technologies and oversight. You will collaborate extensively with internal cyber security and various business units, including corporate and production IT services to provide expert security advice and assistance in creating a secure infrastructure design for FICO's solutions. As a technical expert in network security, web defenses, email protections and systems architecture you will provide guidance and input on challenges facing the organization and help ensure a secure, well protected environment that complies with all applicable security standards.” - Sr Director-Cyber Security

What You’ll Contribute

• Design, architect, and implement Security technologies in a complex and distributed infrastructure.

• Design, implement and manage scalable security controls on network security for Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), SASE, Intrusion Detection Systems, and auditing tools in both public and private cloud infrastructures.

• Design, implement and manage scalable security controls for web application firewalling, bot protection, CDN, content redirection and manipulation in a hybrid public/private cloud.

• Design, implement and manage scalable security controls on email security for Business Email Compromise and Brand Protection.

• Define the need and assess relevant security tools to address security challenges within cloud and on-prem infrastructures related to edge services.

• Lead a global team to provide around the clock support of in-line services, hand off processes and on-call rotations.

• Manage policies, standards and reviews of network segmentation, email and other edge related services.

• Design, implement and manage scalable security solutions to provide network visibility and security auditing of mixed environments.

• Perform security analysis and provide recommendations and consulting on securing infrastructure for customer facing applications, incorporating security services.

• Serve as a knowledge expert to provide guidance and technical leadership to other staff members and teams outside of Security and lead security initiatives and principles towards adoption within the organization.

• Support our compliance and certification initiatives and develop/maintain automations to remove related manual efforts.

What We’re Seeking

• A modern network security leader with experience in building, leading and mentoring technical teams.

• In-depth knowledge and hands on experience in SASE and Zero Trust security models and related network constructs (VPC, Security Groups, Route Tables, BGP).

• Extensive experience with secure network connectivity mechanisms (NGFW, VPN, ZTNA, Proxies).

• Experience operating, engineering and securing hybrid network infrastructure services.

• Experience with network security tools and mechanisms (e.g., Sourcefire, Suracata, Firemon, Bro or similar).

• Experience with email security concepts to protect end user compromise and spoofing (ICES, BEC, BP, DKIM/SPF).

• Experience with the security challenges in managing legacy datacenter to IaaS transformation initiatives.

• Previous successful projects that iteratively transitioned legacy security models to next generation solutions.

• Comfort in creating high-level strategies and recommendations based on observed behaviors or patterns

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.

• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.

• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.

• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

• The targeted base pay range for this role is: $151,000 to $237,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

• Credit Scoring — More than 90% of US credit decisions involve the FICO Score.

• Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

• Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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