About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

We are seeking an Associate Director Lead Security Resilience with 10 years of deep technical and leadership experience to own and evolve our enterprise-wide security resilience program in a high-velocity AI-first organization.

You will be the authoritative voice on resilience strategyensuring the company can withstand adapt to and rapidly recover from cyber attacks major incidents and disruptive events without compromising trust availability or velocity. You will partner at the highest levels with Engineering Infrastructure Product Risk and Executive Leadership to turn resilience from a compliance checkbox into a measurable competitive advantage.

This is a strategic yet deeply hands-on leadership role: you will design resilience architectures drive chaos engineering at scale lead red team/blue team programs own incident response orchestration and embed resilience-by-design across cloud AI and data platforms.

The Impact

• Build an organization that survives and thrives through sophisticated attacks and outages
• Directly protect next-generation AI products serving millions of users
• Equity in a high-growth mission-driven AI company
• Flexible remote-first culture with global impact
• Work alongside world-class AI researchers platform engineers and security leaders
• Define the industry benchmark for resilient AI systems

Key Responsibilities

• Resilience Strategy & Governance: Develop and maintain the enterprise resilience roadmap including business continuity disaster recovery crisis management and cyber recovery capabilities across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.
• Chaos & Reliability Engineering Leadership: Scale chaos engineering fault-injection and GameDay programs to validate resilience of AI training/inference clusters real-time serving systems and critical data pipelines.
• Advanced Incident Response & Recovery: Own the technical incident command process lead high-severity incident response and continuously mature detection-to-recovery runbooks and playbooks.
• Red Team / Adversarial Resilience: Direct advanced red team operations focused on AI-specific attack surfaces (model theft poisoning inversion supply-chain) and cloud-scale persistence techniques.
• Resilient Architecture Patterns: Define and enforce resilience reference architectures (circuit breakers bulkheads graceful degradation immutable infrastructure automated failover) across the stack.
• Metrics & Assurance: Establish and report on resilience KPIs/SLIs (RTO RPO MTTD MTTR blast radius containment) and drive continuous improvement through post-mortems and resilience reviews.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Chair the Resilience Working Group align executives on risk appetite vs. recovery objectives and secure budget/investment for resilience initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of progressive experience in security resilience incident response reliability engineering or site reliability leadership roles in cloud-native high-scale environments.
• Proven track record of building and leading enterprise resilience or SRE programs that materially reduced downtime and attack impact.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing large-scale chaos engineering and red team exercises in production.
• Deep expertise in modern incident response frameworks (NIST CREST PICERL) and orchestration tools (e.g. PagerDuty xMatters Resolve Rootly).
• Strong architecture-level knowledge of multi-cloud environments (AWS GCP Azure) and AI infrastructure (GPU clusters model serving data lakes).
• Experience leading technical response to nation-state level or high-profile security incidents preferred.
• Relevant certifications: CISSP CISM GIAC (GCTI GNFA GCIH) or SRE-related credentials strongly preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (Recover function) NIST AI RMF resilience controls and DRI/BCI standards
• Proficiency in chaos tools (Gremlin Chaos Monkey Litmus PowerfulSeal) and observability stacks (Datadog Honeycomb Lightstep)
• Experience securing AI/ML supply chains and defending against adversarial ML attacks
• Prior success influencing executive leadership and securing multi-million-dollar resilience investments

Who You Are

• Obsessed with recovery: You measure success in minutes-to-recovery not just prevention.
• Calm under fire: Youve led war rooms during ransomware DDoS and zero-day exploits.
• Builder and breaker: You both architect resilient systems and know exactly how to tear them down.
• Collaborative force multiplier: Engineers trust you because youve been in the trenches with them.
• Data-driven pragmatist: You balance ideal resilience with business velocity and cost.
• AI-aware: You understand the unique resilience challenges of training clusters inference endpoints and prompt interfaces.

If youve ever looked at a major outage or breach and thought We could have recovered in half the time this role was built for you.

Whats In It For You

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

Were more than 35000 strong worldwideso were able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. Were committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
Integrity Discovery Partnership

Throughout our history the worlds leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do bring a spirit of discovery to our work and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. Thats why we provide everything youand your careerneed to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay retirement planning a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: Its not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones too with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awardssmall perks can make a big difference.

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Required Experience:

Director