Role summary
Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs.
Responsibilities
- Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites such as access, certificates, backups, and rollback procedures
- Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off
- Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods
- Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios
- Ensure observer participation from Operations and platform subject matter experts for test credibility
- Manage defect triage; assign owners and severity levels; track fix SLAs and re-tests
- Maintain RAID logs; escalate blockers; quantify residual risk at release
- Supervise compilation of validation packs including plans, results, evidence, and traceability matrices; ensure versioned storage and approvals
- Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by Quality Assurance and Excellence teams; resolve returns promptly
- Validate runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and disaster recovery artifacts
- Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live
- Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish communications plans, RACI matrices, and hyper care schedules
- Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums
- Track change success rate and update checklists accordingly
- Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions ensuring alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs
- Oversee Proof of Concept activities including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting
- Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value
- Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is required
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university is preferred
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent from a recognized and accredited university
Experience
Six to eight years in a relevant industry, preferably with majority in IT Security delivery across corporate and asset environments
Education · Experience · Type
Bachelor'sRequires 6+ yearsSalary not stated