Sr. Manager, Cybersecurity (Hybrid - Kennesaw, GA) na Artivion, Inc.

Company Overview:

Headquartered in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Artivion, Inc. is a medical device company focused on developing simple, elegant solutions that address cardiac and vascular surgeons’ most difficult challenges in treating patients with aortic diseases. Artivion has over 1,400 employees worldwide with sales representation in over 100 countries. The Company has manufacturing facilities located in Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas and Hechingen, Germany. Additionally, it has sales and distribution offices in various countries throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. For additional information about Artivion, visit our website, www.artivion.com.  

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Manager of Cybersecurity with strong expertise in Infrastructure, including servers, networks, and enterprise security practices. This role will lead a team of cybersecurity professionals to safeguard the organization’s technology environment, ensure compliance, and reduce risk exposure. The Senior Manager will be a hands-on leader who bridges cybersecurity strategy with operational execution, particularly across server infrastructure and network security domains. In addition to guiding technical teams, this leader will work closely with business leaders to align security initiatives with organizational priorities, ensuring that risk management, compliance, and resilience strategies directly support business objectives and growth.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of the organization’s cybersecurity program.
• Oversee security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure secure configuration and patching of servers (Windows, Linux, cloud-based) and network environments (LAN, WAN, firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN).
• Develop, enforce, and monitor security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Lead risk assessments and remediation initiatives across servers, applications, and network infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards (ISO, NIST, HIPAA, SOX, etc.).
• Drive strategic security initiatives including Zero Trust, network segmentation, and identity/access management.
• Collaborate with IT, cloud, and infrastructure teams to embed security in system architecture and deployment.
• Mentor, coach, and grow a team of cybersecurity engineers and analysts.
• Present risk posture, incidents, and security metrics to executive leadership.
• Oversee threat intelligence and proactively adjust defenses based on emerging threats.
• Manage third-party/vendor security assessments and ongoing monitoring of external partners.
• Establish and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans from a cybersecurity perspective.
• Drive security awareness training programs across the organization to reduce human risk factors.
• Work with application development teams to ensure secure coding practices and regular security testing (SAST/DAST).
• Lead cloud security initiatives including workload protection, IAM, and compliance monitoring.
• Implement advanced monitoring and automation strategies to improve incident detection and response times.
• Serve as a key liaison between cybersecurity and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of security strategy with organizational objectives.
• Establish and chair cross-functional governance forums to drive cybersecurity decision-making and accountability across business units.
• Partner with risk management, legal, compliance, and audit teams to embed cybersecurity into enterprise governance and oversight structures.
• Translate complex cybersecurity risks into clear, business-relevant impacts to secure executive and board-level buy-in.
• Develop executive-ready materials, dashboards, and reports that communicate security posture, program maturity, and risk exposure to C-suite and board stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business leaders and functional teams to integrate security controls into business processes, product development, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Lead the development and socialization of cybersecurity roadmaps, ensuring clear prioritization and resource alignment with business goals.
• Foster a culture of shared accountability by driving cybersecurity awareness and ownership within business units beyond IT.
• Partner with enterprise program management office to ensure cybersecurity initiatives are tracked, measured, and aligned with business outcomes.
• Embed cybersecurity risk considerations into all Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and governance.
• Define and enforce security controls for DR environments to prevent them from becoming attack vectors.
• Oversee incident response handoffs into DR/BC processes, ensuring seamless coordination and secure system cutovers.
• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of recovery security controls using key resilience and cyber-readiness metrics.
• Ensure third-party BC/DR providers implement and maintain appropriate security safeguards, controls, and compliance standards.
• Lead post-incident reviews with a focus on security lessons learned, ensuring mitigation strategies are integrated into future recovery plans.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 8–12 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3–5 years in a management role.
• Deep knowledge of server security (Windows/Linux, virtualization, cloud workloads) and network security (firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, DNS, routing/switching, segmentation).
• Proven experience with security operations, incident response, and vulnerability management tools.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, SOX).
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, DLP, and identity/access management solutions.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CEH, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.