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New York Life Insurance Company · 2 weeks ago

Corporate Vice President - Cyber Resiliency Lead

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$180K/yr - $258K/yr

15+ years exp

New York Life Insurance Company is committed to shaping its digital landscape through innovative technology. The Cyber Resiliency Lead role is responsible for developing and overseeing cyber resilience strategies to enhance the organization’s ability to recover from cyber disruptions, while collaborating with various teams to ensure robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place.

FinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Review and recommend cyber resilience recovery strategies and options and assist with the implementation of recovery solutions

Champion cyber resilience objectives in collaboration with infrastructure, enterprise technology, risk, and resiliency teams

Act as a thought leader on cyber resilience trends and industry best practices

Develop, implement, and maintain Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and other relevant metrics to measure cyber resilience program effectiveness, maturity, and alignment with organizational goals

Assess and enhance recovery readiness for core technology services including (but not limited to) identity and access management (IAM), network, DNS, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and cloud platforms

Develop recovery tiering and technical recovery playbooks for cyber incidents (e.g., ransomware, data corruption, destructive attacks)

Support impact assessments for emerging technologies (e.g., AI, zero trust, hybrid cloud) on cyber resilience

Lead decisioning and implementation of clean room and isolated recovery environments for rapid reconstitution

Define access, tooling, and procedures for maintaining and validating clean-room readiness

Implement (or partner with teams to support implementation) tools and solutions to be used for the recovery environment (e.g., cyber vault, recovery orchestrations, forensics)

Enhance DR testing procedures to include cyber-disruption scenarios and recovery validation in partnership with enterprise resilience, enterprise technology, and business partners

Define minimum viable business and technology service levels for post-incident operation

Coordinate and lead cyber-focused tabletop exercises, cyber disruption scenarios, and recovery simulations for critical systems. and playbook validation

Coordinate post-mortem reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future planning

Partner with Enterprise Resiliency to assess business function-level preparedness

Coordinate development of annual cyber resilience program objectives and schedules for annual recovery playbook maintenance and update, exercises and independent review and validation

Develop and coordinate cyber resilience program artifacts, including reporting, tracking, and monitoring

Provide expertise and support to management and recovery functions, as requested, when business disruption occurs

Work with critical third-party vendors to ensure that business requirements are addressed

Define standards for cyber readiness, recovery point/time objectives (RPO/RTO) under attack conditions, and cyber crisis escalation in partnership with enterprise risk management

Participate in governance bodies related to resilience, risk, and incident response

Qualification

Cybersecurity operationsDisaster recovery toolsRecovery architectureNIST CSFISO 27031Threat scenariosLeadership skillsCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

15+ years in cybersecurity, technology risk, or IT disaster recovery roles

Deep understanding and experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, infrastructure resilience, and threat scenarios (e.g., ransomware, destructive malware)

Experience developing recovery architecture and procedures for hybrid environments (cloud/on-prem)

Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27031, and FFIEC Business Continuity Handbook

Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills across executive, technical, and operational levels

Prior experience with disaster recovery tools (e.g., Cohesity, Dell Cyber Recovery, AWS/Azure/GCP disaster recovery solutions)

Excellent communication skills and experience in reporting progress, status and outcomes to management

Benefits

Leave programs

Adoption assistance

Student loan repayment programs

Company

New York Life Insurance Company

For over 180 years, we’ve helped turn your biggest dreams into milestones that last a lifetime.

Founded in 1845

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.newyorklife.com/

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