Senior System Engineering - Technical Vendor Manager
Bengaluru, India
Job Description:
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior System Engineer Technical Vendor Manager with 10-15 years of experience and a strong security background to manage vendor relationships and lead a team responsible for audits, compliance, automation, vulnerability management, security end-to-end application ownership. This role requires advanced project management skills, leadership capabilities, and expertise in security frameworks and methodologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enterprise application lifecycle management (On Prem, cloud), application deployment and maintenance. Monitoring and trouble shooting
- Expertise in IT application security, threat assessment, and good understanding of security architecture.
- Technical Ability to identify, assess and remediate and report security vulnerability.
- Experience Managing Vendor Contracts, Conducting Audits and Overseeing funding cycles Understanding of billing process and financial oversights
- Lead and manage a team of Technical Vendor Managers, providing guidance and oversight for audits, compliance, and security initiatives.
- Act as the primary liaison for business-critical issues, including catastrophic outages, billing delays, and compliance challenges.
- Oversee vendor performance metrics and SLAs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and cost-effective solutions.
- Drive compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements, including prioritizing funding for remediation efforts.
- Develop and implement strategies for automation and vulnerability management across applications.
- Review and approve high-level vulnerability exceptions, database and operating system patching, and policy exception requests (PERs).
- Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to ensure timely resolution of issues and adherence to compliance standards.
- Manage escalations from leadership, internal security group, and external groups, providing executive-level status reporting.
- Participate in contract negotiations to ensure no gaps in required work and positive outcomes for the company.
- Support cloud migration and data center closing activities, including managing access to subscriptions and tools.
- Monitor disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure compliance with organizational standards.
- Facilitate collaboration between business units and internal groups during outages, defects, and other business-impacting issues.
- Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations, Records Information Management(RIM)
Qualifications:
Skills required to perform day to day tasks
- 10-15 years of experience in application management, IT security, or a related field.
- Application Management: Enterprise application lifecycle management(Onprem, cloud,saas), application deployment and maintenance. Monitoring and trouble shooting.
- IT Security : cyber security, threat assessment, security architecture.
- Vulnerability Management : Technical Ability to identify ,assess and remediate and report security vulnerability.
- Vendor and Contract Management :
- Vendor Relationship Management : Experience Managing Vendor Contracts, Conducting Audits and Overseeing funding cycles.
- Bill Cycle Management : Understanding of billing process and financial oversights
- On a monthly basis provide Billing Accuracy numbers (total number of accounts)
- On a monthly basis provide Finance with Annual Discretionary Budget and Variable hours projections 3 months out.
- Review details of credit hours used by application.
- Meet with Vendor resources monthly to review
- Track Variable hours.
- Track Annual Discretionary Budget Credit hours (used, carried over).
- Track Annual Discretionary Budget hours (used, carried over).
- Variable Projects list
- Analytical and Reporting : Ability to generate reports , analyze vendor performance metrics.
- Technical Automation Skills : Programming(Scripting), Tooling (Automation platform and monitoring), Cloud migration.
- Platform Experience : Proficiency in Microsoft Azure, portal administration, cost optimization.
- Compliance Knowledge : Experience with Sarbanes-Oxley(SOX) regulations, Records Information Management(RIM)
- Soft Skills : Strong Communication, Project Management
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Proven experience in a leadership role, managing teams and overseeing security projects.
- Strong understanding of compliance, security, and audit requirements, including Sarbanes-Oxley regulations.
- Expertise in security frameworks, methodologies, and tools for vulnerability management and remediation.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in managing technical vendors and overseeing compliance with security and audit standards.
- Knowledge of rapid deployment processes and requirements.
- Experience with cloud environments (preferably Azure).
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and drive organizational change in security and compliance areas.
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
Bangalore, Karnataka, IndiaIt is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Job ID R-71101 Date posted 06/16/2025
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