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Position Purpose:
The Cybersecurity team at Home Depot protects the organization’s systems, data, and technology assets through proactive risk management, strong operational controls, and rapid incident response. This role supports core security functions by ensuring the resilience of critical systems and maintaining accurate oversight of technology assets across the enterprise.
Key Focus Areas:
- Disaster Recovery:
- Support planning, execution, and testing of disaster recovery procedures to ensure business continuity.
- Partner cybersecurity teams to validate recovery readiness and close any identified gaps.
- Technology Asset Management:
- Maintain visibility of hardware and software assets across the enterprise to reduce security risk.
- Ensure assets are properly tracked, compliant, and aligned with lifecycle and vulnerability management processes.
Protecting what matters most to our associates and consumers by securing our sensitive data and critical assets from current and emerging threats. At The Home Depot Cybersecurity consists of Architecture, Governance, Identity & Access Management, Internal Threat Operations, Issue and Compliance Management, Risk Assessment/Advisory, Security Consulting, Security Operations and Strategic Planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- 60% Analysis - Synthesize data to develop a solution, communicate the solution to stakeholders Analyze problems, structure the issue and perform analysis
- 10% Collaborate - Partner cross-functionally to identify trends and resolve issues
- 30% Drive Execution - Ensure initiative/project goals are met in a timely manner Implement solutions to meet customer expectations
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This Position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
- This Position has 0 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- IT Fundamentals – A working foundational knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure components, including basic networking, servers, databases, storage, and fundamental cloud concepts (GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Security Awareness – General awareness of modern cybersecurity principles, basic risk management, and common threats that cause IT outages.
- Data Organization – Proven ability to gather, organize, and analyze technical or business data from multiple sources to support reporting or decision making.
- Project Coordination – Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to track items, manage meeting schedules, and support logistics of workshops, interviews, and testing events.
- Effective Communication - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate basic technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Continuity Concepts – A basic understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, including what a Business Impact Analysis is, and understanding of metrics like RTO and RPO.
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
- No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 2
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- None
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- None
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- Action Oriented
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Customer Focus
- Drives Results
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