Senior Data Protection Engineer

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What you’ll be doing...

The Verizon Cybersecurity organization securely enables the business by protecting assets and information across Verizon networks, infrastructure and applications. We integrate governance, policies, technologies and operations across Verizon, and work to incorporate security into the design of technology systems and services.
 

The Data Protection Services team in Cybersecurity provides enterprise-wide data protection capabilities, including tokenization and encryption, across the data lifecycle, by supplying highly available and scalable technical services, developing novel data protection solutions and architectures, setting policy and standards, and partnering with stakeholder groups on broad data protection governance activities.

We provide leadership for the design, engineering and implementation of data protection services and capabilities across the enterprise. We participate in solution design and development in areas such as Data Discovery and Classification, Policy Management, Access Control, Test Data Management, Privacy Enhancing Techniques (PETs), Post-Quantum Encryption and Key management, as well as provide capabilities and thought leadership as an enabling component of Verizon’s Zero Trust architecture.

Your role will include:

• Architecture, design and implementation of Privacy-Preserving data protection and data authorization solutions. 

• Architecture, design and implementation of Test Data Management capabilities, leveraging industry best practices, and new technologies such as K2View, Tonic.ai, etc.

• Assessment of application teams’ TDM capabilities and states of non-prod data to ensure compliance. Onboarding applications to TDM platform.

• Design and implementation of new capabilities in support of Data de-identification, Unstructured File Analysis, Crown Jewel data protection and Global Workforce data protection, in alignment with enterprise security architecture Zero Trust principles.

• Design and implementation of technical security standards covering data protection standards (such as data disposition and encryption) for systems involved in processing sensitive data. 

• Manage and maintain data protection technologies to better identify and protect sensitive data, including understanding of delegated / distributed data protection capabilities managed outside of the team.

• Have significant ownership in and evangelize security around Data Encryption & Protection (DEP)

• Interact with users and stakeholders to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications, in alignment with data protection standards and policies.

• Support and consult with vendor, infrastructure and development teams to assist the business units with implementing sound data protection practices along with interfacing with customers in support of their data protection requirements.

• Manage vendor relationships for various Data Protection solutions.

• Liaise with off-shore development teams supporting Data Protection capabilities, as well as internal customer applications.

• Training and oversight of Jr. Engineering resources in support of the team mission.

• Leverage advanced knowledge of security operations, cyber security tools, intrusion detection, and secured networks to diagnose and resolve configuration, programming and reporting issues.

• Determine and report the accomplishments of project initiatives across the stakeholder groups providing consulting and guidance on how to drive business results from the data available.
  
  This position can be located in other valid Verizon locations.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience

• Experience in Privacy Engineering, Data Protection Engineering and/or Privacy-by-Design.

• Experience in Information security, Data Governance, Data Protection technologies, Policy and Standard development, IT, application development and/or support.

• Experience in and knowledge of Privacy Enhancing Techniques like de-identification, pseudonymization, anonymization, k-anonymity, differential privacy.

• Master’s Degree in information security, cyber security, computer science or a related field.

• Strong communication and presentation skills along with the ability to handle multiple priorities and challenging situations.

• Experience in IT, application development and support, and Cybersecurity.

• Strong relationship skills and collaborative style to enable success across multiple partners.

• Ability to clearly and succinctly explain highly complex issues to senior executives.

• Experience in preparing and delivering presentations to peers or senior executives.

• Ability to negotiate when warranted, in order to work with other teams.

• Ability to grasp and assess “big picture” issues and bring them to light in order to foster positive change for a more robust data ingestion platform and process.

• Experience in Cloud and Containerized architecture.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you’ll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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