Senior Manager IT Security Operation

JoinReynolds Consumer Productsand Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities! We provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting dynamic fast-paced and fun workplace environment. If you are looking to build a strong career we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for aSenior IT Manager - Security Operationsto join our team located at our headquarters in Lake Forest IL.

Your Role

The Senior IT Manager - Security Operations will report directly to the RCP Senior Director of Information Security and is responsible for overseeing maturing and operating the endtoend Cyber Defense function for Reynolds Consumer this leadership role you will direct the strategy people processes and technologies responsible for threat detection incident response cyber threat intelligence and security monitoring across onpremises cloud SaaS and OT environments. You will manage internal Cyber Defense analysts while governing our managed security service providers to ensure 247 protection rapid response reliable detection content and continuous improvement of defensive capabilities. This role requires strong technical depth excellent leadership presence and the ability to drive measurable security outcomes across a highly distributed enterprise. You will partner closely with Infrastructure Networking Cloud IAM Applications and business stakeholders to ensure our cyber defense posture meets industry standards and supports RCPs strategic goals.

You will have the opportunity to Make Great Things Happen!

Cyber Defense Strategy & Program Leadership

• Develop and execute RCPs Cyber Defense strategy covering detection response threat hunting threat intelligence cloud/identity security and network/endpoint telemetry.
• Build and maintain a multiyear roadmap for capabilities tooling automation and maturity evolution.
• Establish measurable goals KPIs and operational metrics for the Cyber Defense program.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead mentor and develop Cyber Defense analysts and engineers.
• Oversee team performance coaching workload balance career development and succession planning.
• Build a strong culture of operational excellence readiness and continuous learning.
  

Threat Detection & Engineering

• Own the full lifecycle of detection engineering: backlog management design development testing deployment tuning and retirement of use cases.
• Maintain detection coverage mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK NIST CSF and relevant threat models.
• Ensure onboarding validation and maintenance of log sources for SIEM EDR cloud identity network OT and SaaS platforms.
• Drive quality of alerts through falsepositive reduction noise suppression and telemetry enrichment.

Security Operations & Incident Response

• Serve as Incident Commander for highseverity cyber incidents directing technical response triage containment and eradication activities.
• Lead executive communications regulatory notifications (as needed) RCAs and postincident remediation governance.
• Ensure IR plans playbooks tabletop exercises and runbooks remain current tested and effective.

MSSP & SOC Governance

• Govern managed SOC(s) and related MDR/EDR service providers to ensure SLA/SLO compliance detection accuracy timely escalations and service improvements.
• Lead weekly operational reviews and monthly/quarterly business reviews with MSSP partners.
• Validate tuning content development automation detection gaps and service recommendations.

Security Technology Ownership

• Serve as product owner for SIEM EDR SOAR cloud security monitoring digital forensics tools and threat intelligence platforms.

Drive engineering oversight for:

• SIEM operations and architecture
• Endpoint detection and response
• SOAR playbooks and automation
• Cloud and identity security telemetry (Azure AWS M365 Entra ID/PIM)
• OT/ICS visibility tooling
• Lead major platform upgrades migrations and evaluations (e.g. SIEM modernization initiatives).

Cloud Identity & SaaS Defense

• Oversee development and tuning of detections for cloud workloads identity systems OAuth/App Consent abuse MFA anomalies and SaaS platforms.
• Ensure protection and monitoring across multicloud/hybrid environments with secure configuration baselines and telemetry

You will love it here if

• You put safety first always
• You listen learn and evolve
• You are passionate about collaboration teamwork and achieving shared goals
• You treat all people with respect operating ethically and embrace inclusivity
• You are committed to improving our impact on local communities

We need you to have:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar area of study or a directly related field with 10 or more years of work experience.
• 8 years of work experience leading Cyber Defense Management.
• Exceptional ability to assess and communicate information security concepts and practices with both business and IT stakeholders.
• Prior experience supporting hybrid multi-cloud environments including SaaS PaaS IaaS and on-premises solutions.
• Proven experience in design implementation and operations of a cyber-defense program with heavy leverage of managed security service provider(s).
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK NIST CSF ISO 2700x and COBIT frameworks/standards in relation to a cyber-defense program.
• Ability to travel 5%.

Icing on the cake:

• ClSSP CISA or Cloud security certification.

If you answer yes to the followingwe want to meet you!

• Intellectual Curiosity: Do you have an inquisitive nature
• Problem Solving: Do you have a knack for tackling issues head-on
• Entrepreneurship: Do you enjoy taking ownership of your work
• Customer Centricity: Do you always act in the best interests of the customer putting their needs first
• Growth Mindset: Do you focus on progress rather than perfection
• Continuous Improvement: Are you never satisfied with the status quo

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