Senior Manager, Cybersecurity
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
Position Summary
The Sr. Manager Cybersecurity is a hands-on technical leader responsible for defining leading and executing the organizations enterprise cybersecurity strategy architecture and daily security operations. This role combines strategic ownership with direct technical execution requiring active involvement in designing implementing configuring and maintaining security controls across the enterprise.
This role operates as a core member within the Digital Technology Organization (DTO) working in close alignment with peer technology functions while engaging collaboratively with risk compliance legal and business stakeholders. The position ensures the confidentiality integrity and availability of HASIs information assets while aligning cybersecurity initiatives with business objectives regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
Beyond governance and oversight this role is deeply engaged in security engineering and operations including tool deployment control configuration vulnerability management and incident response. A strong emphasis is placed on Microsoft 365 and cloud security with expectations to operate directly within platforms to implement and optimize controls.
The Sr. Manager owns the adoption and execution of cybersecurity frameworks including CIS Controls leads cybersecurity personnel and drives continuous improvement across security operations awareness and technology platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Cybersecurity Strategy Architecture & Governance
- Define execute and maintain HASIs enterprise cybersecurity strategy roadmap and target security architecture.
- Establish and enforce cybersecurity policies standards and technical controls aligned to NIST CSF CIS Controls and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure cybersecurity is embedded into enterprise architecture infrastructure design cloud platforms and technology initiatives from inception.
- Provide regular risk-based reporting on cybersecurity posture control maturity and emerging threats to executive leadership.
Hands-On Security Engineering & Operations
- Serve as a hands-on security leader actively configuring implementing and tuning security technologies and controls.
- Lead the implementation and ongoing management of security platforms including SASE DLP IAM PAM endpoint protection SIEM and network security solutions.
- Perform and oversee vulnerability identification remediation and validation across infrastructure cloud endpoints and applications.
- Actively participate in threat detection security monitoring incident response root cause analysis and post-incident remediation.
- Manage and enhance SOC capabilities including direct oversight of MSSPs and validation of alerts detections and response quality.
Microsoft 365 & Endpoint Security Ownership
- Own and manage security across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem including Entra ID (Azure AD) Exchange Online SharePoint OneDrive Teams and Defender platforms.
- Design implement and maintain Conditional Access policies identity protection controls and Zero Trust access models.
- Lead Mobile Device Management (MDM/MAM) strategy and implementation using Microsoft Intune including device compliance application protection and data loss prevention controls.
- Develop implement and maintain CIS hardening baselines security GPOs and standardized secure workstation and server images.
- Ensure secure configuration and continuous hardening of Microsoft and endpoint environments in alignment with CIS benchmarks.
Cloud & Infrastructure Security
- Lead secure design and configuration of cloud environments (Azure AWS) with a strong focus on defense-in-depth and least privilege.
- Implement identity-centric security controls secure networking logging and monitoring across hybrid and cloud-native environments.
- Ensure security controls are integrated into automation infrastructure-as-code and modern IT delivery practices.
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead mentor and develop a team of cybersecurity professionals while remaining technically engaged and hands-on.
- Establish clear expectations that balance strategic ownership with operational execution.
- Foster a culture of accountability continuous improvement and strong security engineering discipline.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Awareness
- Partner with IT risk compliance legal and business teams to design solutions that are secure scalable and compliant
- Act as a trusted technical advisor on cybersecurity risks control design and mitigation strategies
- Drive organization-wide security awareness and training programs to improve cyber hygiene and reduce human risk
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Cybersecurity or a related field
- 10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity or information security with significant hands-on technical responsibility
- Demonstrated experience personally implementing and configuring security technologies not solely managing teams or vendors
- Deep expertise in Microsoft 365 security including Conditional Access Intune (MDM/MAM) Defender identity protection and tenant hardening
- Strong experience implementing SASE DLP IAM PAM endpoint security SIEM vulnerability management and Zero Trust architectures
- Proven experience developing and enforcing CIS hardening standards security baselines GPOs and secure images.
- Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g. SOX SOC 2)
- Ability to lead teams while remaining technically hands-on and execution-focused
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact
- Relevant certifications preferred: CISSP CISM CISA CIS Controls Practitioner Microsoft Security certifications or equivalent
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
About Company
HASI is a leading climate positive investment firm that actively partners with clients to deploy real assets that facilitate the energy transition.