Security Technical Program Manager

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As the Security Technical Program Manager in the Trust & Security organization, you will play a critical role in fulfilling the vision to secure Confluent’s platform and cloud offerings through a combination of technical expertise, security experience, and excellent program management skills. You should be comfortable and experienced in driving and delivering highly complex projects on time, running significant security programs that span the entire company, and participating in operational security exercises, such as incident response and vulnerability management.

What You Will Do:

• Manage and scale security programs by defining milestones and success criteria, resource allocation, and successful on-time delivery with minimal supervision
• Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks/challenges affecting projects
• Drive automation and process improvements for security programs
• Explain technical architecture, decisions, and tradeoffs to both engineering and other functions
• Work with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to streamline and drive our projects on a predictable schedule
• Work with stakeholders to drive cross-cutting and/or critical security initiatives for the company
• Participate in operational security work, including incident response and vulnerability management

• 3-5 years of relevant industry experience
• Security experience is essential for this role
• Experience in running long-term security programs that deliver iterative improvements and risk reduction over time
• Experience in operational security work, such as incident response and vulnerability management, M&A
• Experience driving complex and massive projects across the organizations
• Experience in areas such as release management, cost modeling, and capacity planning is a plus
• Strong communication, interpersonal and leadership skills to work with both engineering and other non-technical stakeholders
• Experience managing end-to-end lifecycle of technical projects
• Strong technical skills 
• Experience in actual design and development of software projects is a plus
• Experience in standing up or scaling an incident response and detection engineering program is a plus
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

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