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UCT is looking for a talented CISO to join us in Chandler, Arizona!

Job Summary:

The CISO is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, architecture, and a multi-year roadmap that ensures that UCT’s information assets are adequately protected. A key element of this role is communicating security at a strategic level to executive management, the Audit and Compliance Board, and the Board of Directors and evangelizing security across the business to drive adoption of security best practices. The CISO will manage a small team of dedicated resources and a larger team of matrixed resources.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a strategic, long-term information security strategy and roadmap to ensure that UCT’s information assets are adequately protected.
• Work with senior leaders across the business to assess and communicate acceptable levels of risk.
• Identify, evaluate, and report on information security risks, practices and projects to the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, and provide subject matter expertise on security standards and best practices (e.g., FFIEC, Dodd-Frank, SOX, PCI, etc.).
• Develop, mentor, and manage a high performing staff of information security professionals.
• Chair the information security steering committee (or governance board, or advisory board).
• Develop the Board’s understanding of security beyond a ‘compliance-only’ view.
• Lead the development of up-to-date information security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines, and oversee their approval, dissemination, and maintenance.
• Ensure that the security management program is in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and contractual requirements.
• Act as the champion for the enterprise information security program and foster a security-aware culture.
• Oversee the evaluation, selection and implementation of information security solutions that are innovative, cost-effective, and minimally disruptive.
• Partner with enterprise architects, infrastructure, and applications teams to ensure that technologies are developed and maintained according to security policies and guidelines.
• Manage regular intrusion detection and vulnerability reporting, internal and external IT audit groups reviews, and the coordination of all required fixes.
• Develop business metrics to measure the effectiveness of the security management program and increase the maturity of the program over time.
• Monitor the industry and external environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on appropriate courses of action.
• Liaise with law enforcement and other advisory bodies as necessary to ensure that the organization maintains a strong security posture.
• Oversee incident response planning and the investigation of security breaches, and assist with any associated disciplinary, public relations and legal matters.
• Oversee and lead the creation, communication, and implementation of a process for managing vendor risk and other third-party risk.
• Lead due diligence and post integration activities related to information security for all M&A activity.

Other Duties

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A proven track record in developing information security policies and procedures, and successful execution.
• Extensive knowledge of business risk, risk assessment and risk-based decision making.
• Able to communicate security and risk-related concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences (in business terms), including board level.
• A natural influencer and coalition builder; passionate about building high performing teams.
• Ability to inspire and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals, an innovative leader, problem solver and consultant.
• Ability to evangelize IT security to make it a critical part of business operations; build trust and respect for the security function.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Experienced with contract and vendor negotiations.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in high-pressure situations.
• Knowledge of security, risk and control frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001 and 27002, SANS-CAG, NIST, FISMA, COBIT, COSO and ITIL.
• Understanding of cloud, SaaS, and IoT architectures, and their implications on information security strategy.
• Technical acumen including but not limited to: OSI, IT infrastructure, cloud, application development languages, tools and frameworks, database technologies, web technologies, next gen mobile, network architecture, enterprise architecture, and directory services.
• Security technology acumen and experience including but not limited to firewall, intrusion detection, cyber-attack tools and defenses, encryption, certificate authority, web filtering, anti-malware, anti-phishing, identity, and access management, multi factor authentication.

Educational/Certification Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; (graduate degree preferred).
• Professional certifications, such as a CISSP, CISM, CISA.

Experience Requirement:

Work Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of IT and/or business leadership experience, and 5 years of information security/cybersecurity experience.

At Ultra Clean Technology, we do not just welcome diversity - we celebrate it! Ultra Clean Technology is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, and any other characteristic protected under laws and regulations.

UCT offers an excellent benefits package to all full-time employees, which includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off.