Vice President

Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s two Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

Position Overview:

The Vice President, Cybersecurity will hold the responsibility for developing, implementing, and monitoring a strategic, comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity program. She/He will provide the vision and leadership necessary to manage the risk to the organization and will ensure business alignment, effective governance, system and product availability, integrity, and confidentiality. This position reports to CIO.

Performance Responsibilities: Essential Functions: 

• Lead the cybersecurity program – perform risk management to identify, contextualize, and mitigate cyber risks to the business.
• Engage and laisse with partners across various business units on cybersecurity projects and initiatives to align controls with business risk appetite and capacity. 
• Oversee a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) and manage the vendor relationship to ensure delivery of services aligned with business requirements.
• Manage the ongoing health, operations, and use of Venture Global’s cybersecurity technology stack. Must provide oversight as well as hands-on as a practitioner.
• Coordinate and oversee ongoing external security assessments and penetration tests to include reporting and tracking of findings remediations. 
• Spearhead ongoing vulnerability management, risk contextualization, reporting, and tracking of open vulnerabilities across the enterprise.
• Architect secure infrastructure solutions to solve business problems and to enable business processes while mitigating risk to the business.
• Lead the team responsible for proactively uncovering digital vulnerabilities within our environment and ensuring information assets and technologies are adequately protected
• Developing the long-term strategy, execute the strategy, and manage the teams responsible for the Vulnerability Management, Pen Testing
• Determining the appropriate schedule and mix of external and internal vulnerability scans, manual security testing
• Providing quality control and oversight for testing reports, presentations, and brief-outs
• Provides the direction for VGLNG’s data and cybersecurity protection and will oversee Technology governance and policies.
• Develops VGLNG’s cybersecurity strategy, security awareness programs, security architecture, and security incident response.
• Provides strategic risk guidance for IT projects, including evaluation and recommendation of technical controls.
• Educates leaders on appropriate cybersecurity risk and mitigation strategies
• Collaborates with IT compliance team(s) as needed and coordinates the IT component of both internal and external audits, federal and state examinations to ensure cybersecurity programs are in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies.
• Develops, maintains, and publishes up-to-date cybersecurity policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Oversees training and dissemination of cybersecurity policies and practices.
• Evaluates new cybersecurity threats and IT trends and develops effective security controls.
• Oversees development of cybersecurity awareness programs.
• Develops and oversees effective disaster recovery policies and standards to align with company business continuity management program goals. Coordinates development of implementation plans and procedures to ensure business critical services are recovered in the event of disasters or other incidents, and provides direction, support, and in-house consulting in these areas.
• Evaluates potential security breaches, coordinates response, and recommend corrective actions.
• Supervise staff as assigned in the performance of the job duties.
• Define and report on information security metrics.
• Provides project management and leadership to staff and external resources in support of established goals and objectives, improved efficiencies, and problem resolution.
• Ensures accomplishment of all objectives in accordance with VGLNG policies, procedures, and strategic direction, as well as regulatory standards governing VGLNG.
• Maintains current knowledge of industry and regulatory trends and developments for the enterprise technology.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, with degree preferred in Computer Science or Information technology systems security or related field. Advanced degrees preferred
2. Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Cybersecurity
3. Minimum of five (5) years leading vulnerability management, penetration testing, and/or red team organizations
4. Minimum of five (5) years hands-on experience conducting vulnerability scans, penetration tests
5. Have experience in setting long-term strategy for technical cybersecurity
6. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification
7. Knowledge of Information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) (certification preferred) with respect to security administration and information technology governance in a multi- platform environment
8. Experience in establishing cybersecurity and risk metrics for reporting
9. Strong Emotional Intelligence with demonstrated sustained leadership in a large organization involving multiple stakeholders
10. Demonstrated management skills, e.g., budget development and administration, policy development and implementation, personnel administration, staff training and development.
11. Demonstrated ability to work with diverse people
12. Have executive-level written and verbal presentation skills
13. Have leadership abilities and adaptability when facing unique challenges encountered to effectively work with individuals in diverse cultures and business environments

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

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