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About American Electric Power (AEP)
American Electric Power (AEP) is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to customers across 11 states through an extensive transmission and distribution network. Industry: Electric Utilities
American Electric Power (AEP) currently has
8 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$126,397–$164,317
across 8 roles with salary data.
Director, Technology (Threat Exposure & Assurance Management) serves as a senior technology leader within centralized IT, acting as the primary liaison between Enterprise Cybersecurity and the CITO organization. This role operates a hub-and-spoke model to coordinate enterprise technology remediation across infrastructure, networks, applications, platforms, and cloud services. The Director translates security findings into practical engineering work, managing the end-to-end remediation lifecycle, including technical triage, risk-based prioritization, and validation. Key responsibilities include leading responses to zero-day exposures, managing service dependencies, and driving configuration hardening and secrets management. The role requires deep expertise in vulnerability management, risk analysis, and production change execution. Success involves using Lean practices and analytics to reduce cycle times while ensuring all technical remediations align with regulatory obligations and operational stability.
Define and execute an enterprise technology remediation strategy across infrastructure, networks, applications, platforms, and cloud.
Own the end-to-end remediation lifecycle including intake, technical triage, accountable-owner assignment, tracking, validation, and closure.
Translate security findings into executable engineering and operational work with clear ownership and acceptance criteria.
Lead the CITO response to emergency vulnerabilities and zero-day exposures by coordinating impact assessments and containment.
Coordinate cross-team delivery with technology owners to ensure plans address testing, change approvals, and service availability.
Resolve competing remediation priorities and negotiate resource allocation and sequencing with technology leaders.
Drive patching, configuration hardening, and attack-surface reduction with accountable technology owners.
Use analytics and dashboards to track metrics like mean time to remediate and backlog age to improve execution.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information security, business, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience, including 6 years in a leadership role.
Substantive experience in enterprise IT engineering, operations, or technology delivery with demonstrated leadership of cross-team technology execution.
Proven experience delivering and operating enterprise technology services, implementing production changes, and managing service dependencies and operational trade-offs.
Broad working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, applications, platforms, and cloud.
Substantive hands-on engineering, operations, or delivery experience with technical depth in at least one domain.
Strong knowledge of security principles, vulnerability management, threat exposure, risk analysis, and remediation practices.
Experience translating regulatory and compliance obligations into technology operations across complex enterprise environments (preferred).