Dir, Systems Engrg Mgmt

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
What you get to do in this role:

• Lead initiatives to integrate cybersecurity automation into system designs, ensuring streamlined and proactive threat detection and response mechanisms.
• Develop leadership strategies to mentor and empower team members in adopting best practices for cybersecurity, fostering innovation and accountability.
• Champion the adoption of advanced cybersecurity tools and frameworks, aligning organizational goals with cutting-edge technology to maintain robust systems integrity.
• Manage the quarterly and annual planning, team objectives, individual goals, deliverables, hiring, development plans, and performance reviews.
• Provide technical guidance for systems optimization opportunities and participate in architectural reviews.
• Assess cyber hygiene risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigations to ensure these systems are highly available, operationally sound, perform at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
• Collaborate with peer teams on complex, global engineering efforts to ensure architecture agreement, resource coordination, and implementation timelines.
• Represent the global Systems Engineering team to both internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• 15+ years' experience leading systems/software/hardware development and engineering, release management and DevOps across a global 24x7 production environment.
• Deep background in Linux systems architecture and engineering on a global scale.
• Fluency with the components of infrastructure including hardware platforms, OS, virtualization, Azure public cloud, and web applications and databases.
• Experience with configuration management platforms at scale.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Work cross-functionally to build consensus and drive complex projects and issues to completion.
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or equivalent.

Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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