Cyber Transition & Readiness Lead

Cybersecurity Transition and Operational Readiness -Business Analyst

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Transition and Operational Readiness Business Analyst to lead cybersecurity initiatives from concept validation (PoC) through production implementation, service transition, and steady-state operations.

In this role, you will ensure that business value is validated early, scope is scalable, risks are managed, and services transition into operations with measurable SLAs/SLOs, robust support models, and continuous improvement frameworks. You will partner closely with Product, Security, Engineering, PMO, and Operations teams to achieve predictable delivery, compliance, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

1. PoC, Pilot & Value Validation

• Define PoC success criteria, hypotheses, measurable outcomes, and exit gates.

• Coordinate with architecture and security teams to build compliant, right-sized PoC environments.

• Lead vendor evaluations, solution assessments, and TCO/ROI analyses.

• Deliver PoC test plans, data readiness activities, and evidence packs to support go/no-go decisions.

• Create industrialization plans and highlight capability gaps for scale-up (people, process, technology).

• Document lessons learned and feed insights into the implementation roadmap.

2. Implementation & Scale (Build It Right)

• Own and manage the implementation plan including scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resources.

• Drive solution hardening across security, reliability, performance, and DR/BCP compliance.

• Ensure SDLC/DevSecOps controls, IaC patterns, and automation practices are applied.

• Define clear RACI alignment across all stakeholder groups.

• Manage data migration, cutover strategies, and readiness for execution.

• Oversee UAT, performance testing, and production readiness reviews (PRR).

• Establish detailed support models including tiering, OLAs, runbooks, and escalation paths.

• Coordinate training, knowledge transfer, and operational documentation.

3. Transition to Operations (Make It Sustainable)

• Lead formal Service Transition including warranty/hypercare periods and handover criteria.

• Define and implement SLAs/SLOs, error budgets, monitoring/observability standards, and alerting thresholds.

• Lead organizational change management (OCM) to ensure stakeholders understand new processes, impacts, and adoption requirements.

• Validate CMDB/asset updates, configuration baselines, and license compliance.

• Confirm resilience readiness including backup/restore validation, failover, and (where applicable) chaos engineering tests.

• Formalize run ownership including operational lead designation, duty rosters, on-call schedules, and shift-left practices.

Required Qualifications

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Business, or related field.

• Certifications such as CISSP, PMP, CISM, or ITIL are highly advantageous.

Experience

• 8+ years in program delivery, service transition, or operations leadership roles.

• Background in cybersecurity or enterprise security programs.

• Experience in large-scale transformation or centralization programs.

• Demonstrated success taking products/services from PoC to steady-state operations in enterprise environments.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Operations, Finance/FinOps, Procurement, Vendors).

  Technical Proficiencies (Preferred but not all required)

  • Project Management tools (e.g., Jira, MS Project, Asana)

  • IT Service Management (e.g., ServiceNow, Cherwell)

  • Security platforms (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, EDR, IAM, CSPM)

  • Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

  • Monitoring & observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus)