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• Manage multiple concurrent projects from initial communication to project completion • Gather requirements from clients and communicate with technical team • Manage project scope, finances, schedule and expectations of all parties • Confirm resource availability and appointment • Coordinate internal and external resources for flawless execution of projects • Set client expectations and safeguard technical feasibility • Develop project plans, track progress and update appropriate parties • Hold weekly project updates covering financial and functional updates • Anything else that needs to be done that adds value to the business, our clients and your co-workers

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications using .NET and Java or Python • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features • Implement and maintain unit tests; follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices where applicable • Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives • Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment and integration • Use Git for version control and actively contribute to code reviews • Work on Azure or Google Cloud Platform (preferred), or other cloud services such as AWS.

• Manage small-to-medium scale projects or specific workstreams within larger enterprise programs from initiation to completion, leveraging core agile principles. • Facilitate day-to-day operations for cross-functional teams (cloud, data, AI, application development) to maintain momentum and keep projects on track. • Lead daily standups, scrum ceremonies, and project status meetings, championing agile practices within the team. • Act as a key liaison between customers and technical teams to document requirements, track project milestones, and log risks/issues to keep project scope clear. • Assist in resolving project issues and client concerns promptly, escalating to senior management when necessary to ensure uninterrupted progress. • Maintain project health by tracking scope, schedules, and deliverables. Ensure project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Asana, FinancialForce) are meticulously updated and RAAIDD maintained. • Own and manage project financials and margin performance 'as sold or modified with approval,' tracking project burn and profitability alongside core schedules. • Prepare regular status updates, project retrospectives, and health reports for internal stakeholders, leadership, and client points of contact. • Actively develop your domain and technical knowledge regarding cloud and data solutions to better facilitate project discussions and decisions as well as maintaining required certifications.

• Architectural Migration: Lead the technical strategy, design, and execution of extracting deep business logic from existing Oracle PL/SQL stored procedures and re-architecting them into highly modular .NET 8 microservices. • Cloud & DevOps Leadership: Design and oversee the deployment architecture within a cloud environment, primarily leveraging AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and AWS Service Mesh (or equivalent cloud native tools). • Team Technical Leadership: Provide direct mentorship, technical direction, and code/design review guardrails for a team of 5 backend engineers. • Design & Best Practices: Define microservices patterns, database communication strategies, data validation frameworks, and performance-tuning guidelines for the new ecosystem. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary technical point of contact during the migration, bridging the gap between legacy database structures and modern cloud-native architectures.

• Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects. • Contribute to the Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of the client's mission critical suite of applications. • Available 24/7 for any critical security incident response that may arise which requires immediate resolution. • Work to ensure security tooling within environments is operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability. • Ensure operational practices provide a sound foundation that utilizes tools and processes for rapid identification of security events to address and mitigate risks. • Assist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion. • Contribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards. • Develop and maintain incident response playbooks specific to AI/ML security threats including prompt injection, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks. • Monitor and secure generative AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications within environments. • Contribute to AI governance frameworks and policies ensuring responsible AI practices and compliance with AI-specific security standards. • Analyze and evaluate security implications of new AI/ML tools and platforms before deployment to production environments. • Participate in AI threat intelligence activities and stay current with emerging AI security vulnerabilities and attack methodologies. • Conduct post-incident analysis for AI-related security events and develop preventive measures specific to AI threat vectors. • Review and validate AI model security properties, including robustness against adversarial inputs and data privacy protections.

• Manage enterprise projects from initial communication to project completion leveraging agile principles. • Lead cross-functional engagements (cloud, data, analytics, AI, application development, digital experience, strategy) and teams to maintain customer momentum driving project success. • Serve as the key intermediary between our customers and technical leadership to gather requirements, estimate work, define project milestones, and evaluate risks ensuring clear project scope. Lead standups, scrum ceremonies, and project status meetings championing agile practices. • Facilitate the swift resolution of customer concerns and act as an escalation point for issues ensuring project progress. • Develop domain and technical knowledge to understand technical implementations to facilitate conversations that inform project decisions. • Responsible for project scope, finances, schedule and expectations of all parties, meticulously managing project deliverables. • Provide regular status updates to stakeholders and executive management, maintain effective communication with leadership to keep them aware of critical issues and action plans throughout the project lifecycle. Own project retrospectives and related reporting, driving continuous improvement in project delivery. • Maintain an organized project using project management tools (e.g., FinancialForce, JIRA, Asana). • Build and maintain client relationships through project delivery and proven value • Confidence in self-organization and a tenacity to deliver results for clients

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-native applications using .NET and Java or Python • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features • Implement and maintain unit tests; follow Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices where applicable • Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives • Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment and integration • Use Git for version control and actively contribute to code reviews • Work on Azure or Google Cloud Platform (preferred), or other cloud services such as AWS.

• Implement, and support Google Workspace small to mid deployments and migrations. • Assist in the design, implementation, and support Google Workspace Enterprise deployments and migrations. • Participate in technical discussions with customer executives that drive decisions and implementation • Manage cloud networking services and connect to client networks • Execute tasks related to SaaS configuration, development and integrations • Configure and manage Cloud Platform services and APIs • Develop custom scripts as necessary using Powershell, Python or Appscript • Train our clients’ end users and their technical personnel as required per project scope • Write technical documentation for deployed solutions that includes end-user guides and process manuals • Write, Contribute, Publish content to our LMS for Google Workspace content • Ability to travel to client sites as needed and requested

Role Description We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Incident Response Manager to lead our client's security operations. In this dual role, you will act as both a "builder" and a "maintainer," responsible for scaling a growing security team from the ground up while simultaneously maintaining and maturing existing incident response workflows. You will initially manage a dedicated team of 5 security professionals, with strategic plans to expand the headcount further by the end of the year. - Duration: 12 months - Location: United States - Work Mode: Remote - Employment Type: Contract - Notice Period: Immediate Joiners - Shift/Schedule: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central TZ - Leadership & Team Scaling (The Builder): Provide direct day-to-day management to an initial team of 5 security analysts. Participate heavily in strategic workforce planning to scale and extend the team by the End of Year (EOY). - Incident Response & Workflows (The Maintainer): Oversee and continuously optimize end-to-end incident response workflows. Act as the escalation point for critical security incidents, ensuring rapid containment and remediation. - Threat Detection & Response: Leverage specialized expertise to hunt for, detect, and neutralize sophisticated cyber threats across the enterprise environment. - Security Infrastructure Management: Monitor and maintain central network security defenses, including firewall management, configuration tracking, and rule optimization. Qualifications - Experience: Minimum of 3+ years of professional leadership/management experience within a Security Operations Center (SOC) or Incident Response team. - Threat Detection Expertise: Specialized, hands-on experience in modern threat detection strategies, malware analysis, and adversarial tactics. - EDR Tools: Proven proficiency with Enterprise Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne) to hunt and isolate endpoint threats. - SIEM Tools: Deep understanding of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) architectures for log analysis, correlation rule building, and alert optimization. - Network Security: Practical experience managing network architecture security defenses, with specific hands-on capabilities in firewall management and network protocols. Requirements - Experience working within the Insurance or Financial Services industry, navigating specific regulatory frameworks and data privacy compliances. - Relevant industry certifications (e.g., GCIH, CISSP, GCFA, or CISM). Company Description 66degrees is an end-to-end AI transformation partner that guides enterprises from complex business challenges to clear, quantifiable outcomes. Our company is the culmination of several successful firms, each a leader in its own right in cloud, artificial intelligence, and data. This convergence of talent and expertise is how we help businesses reach their own "inflection point," where chaotic data becomes a strategic asset, complexity becomes clarity, and AI becomes an engine for growth. Our ultimate vision is to be the catalyst for a future where every business operates as an intelligent enterprise, with autonomous systems unlocking human potential. At 66degrees, we believe in thriving through challenges and winning together. These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people. We are dedicated to creating a significant impact for our employees by fostering a culture that sparks innovation and supports professional and personal growth along the way.

• Design, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot SQL Server Always On Availability Groups for mission-critical environments. • Manage Failover Clustering (WSFC), quorum configuration, and multi-subnet deployments. • Monitor and optimize replication lag, failover readiness, and AG health states. • Develop, maintain, and test DR strategies, including geo-replication and failover runbooks. • Implement backup/restore strategies using Full, Differential, Log backups, copy-only backups, and automated validation. • Develop and optimize T-SQL code, stored procedures, functions, views, triggers, and scripts. • Review SQL code for performance, security, and standards compliance. • Tune workloads using execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, statistics maintenance, and parameter sniffing mitigation. • Collaborate with development teams to design efficient schema, indexing, and query strategies. • Design and implement database archiving frameworks for large and older datasets. • Build automated archiving and purge jobs—while ensuring referential integrity and application continuity. • Define data retention policies aligned with compliance and business requirements. • Migrate historical data to secondary storage systems. • Implement and manage table partitioning for large-scale transactional data. • Create and maintain partition functions, schemes, sliding windows, and partition switch strategies. • Optimize data loading, maintenance jobs (index rebuilds, compression), and storage utilization. • Monitor and troubleshoot CPU, memory, IO, tempdb, locking/blocking, and wait statistics. • Optimize high-volume transaction environments and resolve performance bottlenecks. • Configure and maintain SQL Server monitoring solutions (DMVs, Extended Events, PerfMon, third-party tools). • Perform routine maintenance—indexing, statistics updates, integrity checks, growth management, and filegroup management. • Administer SQL Server instances across DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD environments. • Ensure security best practices—roles, permissions, encryption, auditing, and compliance. • Support release deployments and schema changes using version control pipelines.