PCI-DSS Practice Lead - San Jose, CA

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PCI-DSS Practice Lead - San Jose, CA

Our San Jose, California based Information Security Services Firm has an immediate opening for a PCI-DSS Practice Lead to join our growing company. This is a key leadership position that requires a combination of management, team building, and hands-on skills necessary to help grow our PCI-DSS business.

Your initial assignment will require approximately 50% of your time be spent performing hands-on PCI-DSS consulting activities with the balance of your time spent performing strategic assignments involved in building and maintaining our PCI-DSS practice. As you successfully help us grow our PCI-DSS consulting business, this position will transition into a strategic/management role.

Primary Job Duties – Hands-On Consulting (~50%)
• Conducting PCI-DSS gap analyses and assessments.
• Creating professional reports for our clients that detail your assessment findings. Quality reports are very important to us as they allow us to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace - our reports are tailored to our client’s business and include a roadmap of practical, actionable steps for improving their security posture and/or achieving compliance.
• Consulting with clients to help them understand our findings and their remediation options.

Primary Job Duties – Strategic (~50%)
• Leading/participating in meetings and conference calls with potential new clients as our top PCI-DSS subject matter expert.
• Scoping out new PCI-DSS assessment projects and providing estimates and Statements of Work.
• Managing all employees that are focused on our PCI-DSS business.
• Mentoring your employees, setting objectives for them, and reviewing their work.
• Acquisition and management of new employees as needed to meet a demanding workload.
• Ensuring that all QSA employees maintain their certifications and complete recertification training as needed.
• Managing our PCI-DSS QA program.
• Ensuring that we stay in good standing with the PCI Security Standards Council.
• Leading our efforts to become a PA-QSA.

Work Location
Our Company is headquartered in San Jose, California. Approximately 70% of our clients are located in the Bay Area, although this job will sometimes require travel to remote client locations throughout the United States.

Technical Skills
• Minimum of eight years in the information security field doing work similar to what is described above.
• Experience managing or leading teams.
• CISA certification (or CISSP) - Required
• PCI-QSA – Required
• Experience completing a minimum of 10 PCI-DSS Reports on Compliance (ROCs) - Required
• MBA - Preferred

Soft Skills
• Strong customer focus. The goal should be to make customers happy enough that they ask for you and/or your employees to be sent back to do more work for them.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Desire to learn new things and become a participant in the local information security community.
• Good organizational skills
• Honesty and integrity
• Enthusiastic, responsible, proactive, and dependable team player

Other Requirements
• Must undergo criminal background check and drug testing.
• Willingness to travel when necessary.
• Flexibility to work odd hours at times. For the most part this is a Monday-Friday 8:00 to 5:00 job, but sometimes customers require us to do certain work during weekends or off-hours.

Job Benefits
• Competitive salary including performance incentives
• Company sponsored medical and dental insurance
• Company sponsored training programs and career growth opportunities
• Company sponsored industry certifications necessary for your position (such as CISA, PCI-QSA, PA-QSA, etc.).
• Esprit de corps
• Your choice of beer (at the end of the workday)

If you think you’re the right person for this challenging and fun career opportunity, please send your resume to careers@appsecconsulting.com .