Security Manager - Software

Business Awareness:

• You have an understanding about the business that you are trying to secure. For example, working knowledge of cloud technologies, the ability to describe what the security concerns and impact might be for an organization looking to move from on- premises compute to public cloud.
• Distributed Systems / Software Design: understand the compromises that teams make every day in order to make things work. Security Engineers should have strong opinions about the right way to build.
• Threats, Risks, and Modelling: know the difference between a threat and risk. The ability to understand what organizations need to protect, who they need to protect it from, and how that protection should work.
• Vulnerabilities and Exploitation: the ability to discern between a weakness, flaw, or error found within a system, software, host, etc. which have the potential to be leveraged by an attacker in order to compromise a network, application, an infrastructure, etc.
• Collaboration: being personable, approachable, and empathetic are extremely valuable qualities in a Security Manager. The Security Manager role requires a lot of cooperation and engagement within the organization that they support.
• Experience with Incident Response / Operations or addressing breaches, incidents.
• Experience with forensic analysis - strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Understanding of current software (on-premises) and cloud technologies and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) concepts

Your role and responsibilities

The IBM Network Automation team is looking for a Security Manager, one who can take on a leadership role in responding to security issues across a large product portfolio, and its many products and services. The right candidate must thrive in high-pressure situations, think like both an attacker and defender, to drive engineering, development, and business teams to take the right actions in the right timeframes to mitigate risks. We are looking for an individual who can balance technical risks against business risks and consistently drive for the right results. Has a passion for developing solutions to complex security challenges, recognize and fill gaps from a defence-in-depth perspective.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: extensive in software application security, with at least few years in a leadership or management role within a SaaS or cloud-native enterprise environment.
• Proven expertise in cloud and application security, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Deep understanding of SaaS architectures, including microservices, multi-tenancy, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and API security.
• Strong background in DevSecOps practices and security automation using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with security technologies such as:
  • SAST/DAST
  • Container & Kubernetes security (e.g., Aqua, Twistlock)
• Excellent understanding of OWASP Top 10, NIST CSF, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Strong ability to manage complex projects, cross-functional teams, and stakeholder expectations.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CCSP, or OSCP.
• Experience managing security for enterprise-grade SaaS applications handling sensitive or regulated data (e.g., healthcare, finance, government).
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust, API security frameworks, and identity management (OIDC, SAML, OAuth 2.0).
• Demonstrated experience designing or implementing cloud-native security architectures
• Proven success influencing security practices across distributed or global engineering organizations.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland

Job ID: IBM-64263

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-17T18:50:15