▶ Who we are

Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90 years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us. 

▶ How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

1. Be Customer Obsessed
2. Be Courageous with Your Point of View
3. Challenge the Status Quo
4. Act Like an Entrepreneur
5. Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
6. Do the Right Thing
7. Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

▶ About This Opportunity

You will be responsible for all aspects of Network Security within 7-Eleven, reporting to the Senior Manager of Security Operations. You will have demonstrated ability to lead a team of technical specialists having extensive multi-vendor experience and exceptional grasp of technical concepts. You are a proactive leader who takes ownership of issues and drives them to resolution. You will oversee a team of subject matter experts (SME) on behalf of our customers (other business units within 7-Eleven), to ensure their projects and deployments succeed with appropriate security posture, in a timely manner. You will ensure your team has the tools to produce their own career success and guide them to create that success. You will be challenged in a fast-paced environment and will ensure that your team’s success in handling these challenges will not go unnoticed or unrewarded.

Responsibilities:

• You are expected to use your broad-ranging expertise in security concepts to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. You will act independently to determine appropriate approaches to new assignments, and lead your team members in their activities in these domains:
  • Firewalls and network filters, in both Enterprise, Stores, and cloud networks
  • Intrusion Prevention policies
  • Site-to-site and remote-access VPN connectivity
  • Network Access Control
  • Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (to include multi-factor authentication)
  • Web access proxy servers and URL filtering
  • PKI and certificate issuance and management
  • DNS Security
  • Threat research, vulnerability remediation, and creation of compensating controls
  • Network Security policy creation, exception documentation and approval
  • Management of multi-factor authentication tokens
• Act as point of contact for 7-Eleven leadership to advance partnership opportunities between Network Security team and other business areas. Exercise independent judgment in determining appropriate methods and procedures on new assignments for team.
• Create or approve professional development and training plans for your team. Ensure budget is requested for continued professional development of your team.
• Prioritize taskings and projects for the team based on importance to accomplishment of business objectives. Ensure all team members maintain proper prioritization to maximize efficiency.
• Develop job descriptions, conduct hiring interviews, and develop pipeline of candidates for future inclusion in 7-Eleven’s network security program.
• Oversee or perform the solving of significant and unique issues where analysis of situations and data requires evaluation of intangible factors. Provide escalation support and both technical and organizational guidance for all Network Security issues.
• Lead design and architecture efforts for issues impacting future concepts in network security, and advise senior leadership about network security products and technologies that can enhance 7-Eleven’s mission by providing appropriate protection for all data on the network, or sent or received to/from various public or private clouds, or the Internet at large.
• Provide guidance to team members in defining network security requirements for current and future state end-to-end architectures and platforms to advance security controls and the security posture of the business.
• Collaborate with other managers in cross-functional teams to prioritize security risks, provide mitigation or remediation recommendations, and implement compensating controls.
• Oversee or lead network security architecture and third-party risk management reviews.
• Oversee team in performing network security platform testing, vulnerability remediation, and operating system hardening to reduce attack surface.
• Oversee team in performing proof-of-concept testing for network security solutions under consideration for purchase and implementation.
• Provide Information Security leadership with updates and metrics on effectiveness of network security controls.
• Manage development and maintenance of network security policies, standards, processes and workflows.
• Actively engage the vendor community to identify network security products and technologies that can enhance 7-Eleven’s mission by providing appropriate protection for all data on the network, or sent or received to/from various public or private clouds, or the Internet at large.
• Drive and exemplify 7-Eleven Leadership Principles in all you do.

Requirements:

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s in related field, with Master’s (MBA desirable) preferred, or equivalent experience
• 15 years of related experience with Bachelor’s, 12 years with Master’s

Certification/Licenses

• Preferred: At least one professional-level vendor certification in the Network Security arena (Palo Alto PCNSE preferred, Cisco CCNP Security, Juniper JNCIP-SEC, etc.) as well as at least one non-entry-level vendor-neutral certification in the Information Security arena (CISSP, CISM, GISP, etc.)