New York Life Insurance Co

Corporate Vice President - Cyber Resiliency Lead

New York Life Insurance Co$185K — $264K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in cybersecurity, technology risk, or IT disaster recovery roles
  • Deep understanding of cybersecurity operations and incident response
  • Experience in recovery architecture for hybrid environments
  • Familiarity with NIST CSF, ISO 27031, and FFIEC standards
  • Strong leadership and communication skills across levels
  • Experience with disaster recovery tools like Cohesity and cloud platforms

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement cyber resilience strategies for core technologies
  • Collaborate with teams to champion cyber resilience objectives
  • Lead the development and maintenance of metrics for resilience program effectiveness
  • Assess and enhance recovery readiness of core technology services
  • Define and implement processes for clean room recovery environments
  • Enhance disaster recovery testing to include cyber disruption scenarios
  • Coordinate cyber-focused recovery simulations and post-mortem reviews

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including modern workforce offerings
  • Leave programs and adoption assistance
  • Student loan repayment programs
  • Commitment to fostering an inclusive workplace
  • Opportunities for community involvement and volunteerism
Full Job Description
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per month

The Cyber Resiliency Lead role is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing cyber resilience strategies that strengthen the organization's ability to withstand and recover from advanced cyber disruptions across core technology layers. This role will be part of the first line cybersecurity team within NYL's Information Technology Department. Responsibilities include resilience planning for core technology infrastructure and applications, as well as driving integration of cyber scenarios into disaster recovery (DR), business continuity (BC), and enterprise resilience efforts. The role serves as the critical bridge between cybersecurity, enterprise technology, and enterprise risk management.

What You'll Do:

Program Development
  • Review and recommend cyber resilience recovery strategies and options and assist with the implementation of recovery solutions.
  • Champion cyber resilience objectives in collaboration with infrastructure, enterprise technology, risk, and resiliency teams.
  • Act as a thought leader on cyber resilience trends and industry best practices.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and other relevant metrics to measure cyber resilience program effectiveness, maturity, and alignment with organizational goals.


Core Technology Resilience
  • Assess and enhance recovery readiness for core technology services including (but not limited to) identity and access management (IAM), network, DNS, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and cloud platforms.
  • Develop recovery tiering and technical recovery playbooks for cyber incidents (e.g., ransomware, data corruption, destructive attacks).
  • Support impact assessments for emerging technologies (e.g., AI, zero trust, hybrid cloud) on cyber resilience.


Clean Room / Recovery Environment Ownership
  • Lead decisioning and implementation of clean room and isolated recovery environments for rapid reconstitution.
  • Define access, tooling, and procedures for maintaining and validating clean-room readiness.
  • Implement (or partner with teams to support implementation) tools and solutions to be used for the recovery environment (e.g., cyber vault, recovery orchestrations, forensics)


Integration with BCP/DR (includes Preparedness testing)
  • Enhance DR testing procedures to include cyber-disruption scenarios and recovery validation in partnership with enterprise resilience, enterprise technology, and business partners.
  • Define minimum viable business and technology service levels for post-incident operation.
  • Coordinate and lead cyber-focused tabletop exercises, cyber disruption scenarios, and recovery simulations for critical systems. and playbook validation.
  • Coordinate post-mortem reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future planning.
  • Partner with Enterprise Resiliency to assess business function-level preparedness
  • Coordinate development of annual cyber resilience program objectives and schedules for annual recovery playbook maintenance and update, exercises and independent review and validation.
  • Develop and coordinate cyber resilience program artifacts, including reporting, tracking, and monitoring.
  • Provide expertise and support to management and recovery functions, as requested, when business disruption occurs.
  • Work with critical third-party vendors to ensure that business requirements are addressed.


Standards, Policy & Governance
  • Define standards for cyber readiness, recovery point/time objectives (RPO/RTO) under attack conditions, and cyber crisis escalation in partnership with enterprise risk management.
  • Participate in governance bodies related to resilience, risk, and incident response.


What You'll Bring:
  • 15+ years in cybersecurity, technology risk, or IT disaster recovery roles
  • Deep understanding and experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, infrastructure resilience, and threat scenarios (e.g., ransomware, destructive malware).
  • Experience developing recovery architecture and procedures for hybrid environments (cloud/on-prem).
  • Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27031, and FFIEC Business Continuity Handbook.
  • Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills across executive, technical, and operational levels. Prior experience with disaster recovery tools (e.g., Cohesity, Dell Cyber Recovery, AWS/Azure/GCP disaster recovery solutions).
  • Excellent communication skills and experience in reporting progress, status and outcomes to management.


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Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $185,000-$264,500

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Job Requisition ID: 93298

About New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life Insurance Company is a mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the life insurers in the world, ranking #88 on the 2014 Fortune 500 list with over $540 billion in total assets under management, and more than $19 billion in surplus and AVR. New York Life and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment, and retirement solutions. For 175 years, the company has been helping people put their love into action. It was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in New York.

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