Warner Bros. Discovery · 3 hours ago
GVP, Security Infrastructure, Engineering and Operations
GA Atlanta 1050 Techwood Drive NW
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$204K/yr - $378K/yrWarner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company, and they are seeking a Group Vice President (GVP) to lead the enterprise-wide security architecture and engineering function. This role involves ensuring a robust security posture across various platforms and driving the adoption of zero-trust principles while partnering with multiple stakeholders to embed security into technology roadmaps.
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Responsibilities
Own the enterprise security architecture strategy, maintaining and enhancing principles, patterns, and reference models for cloud, network, endpoint, and hybrid environments
Maintain and govern security architecture standards, ensuring secure-by-design principles are embedded in technology roadmaps, solution designs, and transformation programs
Lead infrastructure security engineering, including hardening of compute, storage, network, and virtualization layers; secure landing zones for cloud platforms; and endpoint security baselines
Drive adoption of zero-trust architecture, enabling identity-centric security models, network segmentation, and advanced access controls across enterprise and consumer-facing environments
Integrate security into infrastructure automation and DevOps workflows, embedding guardrails and policy-as-code into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code deployments
Oversee resilience and observability strategies, ensuring security telemetry, monitoring, and incident response readiness for critical services and workloads
Define secure patterns and reusable configurations for cloud, container, and network deployments, enabling consistent adoption across global teams
Ensure compliance alignment for architecture and infrastructure controls with regulatory and industry frameworks (e.g., SOX IT, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SWIFT), supporting audits and client security reviews
Provide executive-level reporting on architecture risk posture, resilience metrics, and adoption of secure design principles to senior leadership and governance bodies
Build and scale a high-performing global team, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and a culture of partnership with technology and product organizations
Serve as a thought leader and trusted advisor, monitoring emerging technologies and threats, influencing enterprise strategy, and representing the organization in industry forums
Qualification
Required
Proven senior leadership experience leading or significantly scaling security architecture and infrastructure engineering at scale in complex, global organizations
Deep expertise in secure architecture design, cloud security engineering, infrastructure hardening, and zero-trust principles for hybrid environments
Proven ability to embed security into infrastructure automation and DevOps practices, leveraging policy-as-code and automated guardrails for scalability
Strong understanding of regulatory and industry frameworks (e.g., SOX IT controls, PCI DSS, SWIFT, privacy and data protection requirements, or similar standards) and experience driving compliance in architecture and infrastructure contexts
Proven ability to partner effectively with senior leaders across cybersecurity, internal audit, legal and privacy, enterprise risk management, technology, product, and business functions
Experience leading and developing teams or functions in global, matrixed environments, with a focus on accountability, execution discipline, and talent development
Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical architecture concepts into actionable strategies for executive leadership and governance forums, ensuring alignment between security design principles and business objectives
Preferred
Advanced degree and/or relevant professional certifications preferred (e.g., SABSA, TOGAF, CISSP, CCSP, CISM, or comparable credentials)
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
An employee wellness program
Life and disability insurance
A retirement savings plan
Paid holidays and sick time and vacation
Company
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
Founded in 2022
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$17.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO
Leadership Team
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Mark Thompson
CEO
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