You will be an integral part of the R&D organization working on internal and external program deliverables related to Cohesity’s FedRAMP program and other compliance initiatives. This will require cross-functional alignment across company-wide teams, ranging from product management and engineering to infosec, external agencies and consultants. You will also play a critical role in increasing our organizational effectiveness and efficiency, using a metrics driven approach, driving accountability and improving our processes.

Job Duties :

• Understand business objectives, evangelize security best practices, define process and behavior changes across the company to deliver and maintain compliances such as FedRamp, StateRAMP, FIPS140-3, SOC II, GDPR etc.
• Define, plan, drive and manage deliverables and dependencies, from multiple cross-functional teams to achieve aggressive outcomes, related to security and compliance initiatives.
• Define, implement and monitor critical metrics through automated scorecards and dashboards. Draw conclusions to drive corrective actions and improvement.
• Understand the technical issues to raise them and facilitate collaborative resolutions.
• Communicate status, risks/issues and mitigation plans to a 360 audience, ranging from executives to engineers.
• Use the best tools for the job at hand - Jira, Confluence, Asana, Tableau etc.
• Contribute to R&D’s projects prioritization, plus business and operational reviews.
• Conceive, take-on, execute and deliver process improvement initiatives that have demonstrable org-wide impacts.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5+ years in management or technical program management in a hi-tech company.
• In-depth experience in program planning and execution through cross functional, company-wide global teams.
• Solid analytical and problem solving skills.
• Proven experience in automated dashboards and scorecards in Jira, Tableau or similar tools to drive operational effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ability to make presentations and communicate to a 360 audience including executives.
• Strong organizational skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities, assignments and roles.
• Must have a “what’s the right thing to do” mindset and be willing to roll up sleeves to get things done hands-on.
• Must have a continuous improvement mindset, constantly looking for and taking on process improvement initiatives.
• Must have a conceptual understanding of software release management, on-prem and cloud release mechanisms, Agile scrum methodology, software code branch management and related topics.
• Ability to drive change in the fast paced dev environment with business & risk driven prioritizations and collaborative approach.
• MUST have experience as a program manager for FedRAMP and FIPS140-2.
• Experience with Common Criteria and other government certifications such as DISA STIGs a plus.