Currently have spent 19 years in IT, 10 as a people leader. Mostly Infra and Ops roles at companies from $2-3B to $9B where I am today.
Currently a Senior Manager for Service management and Operations - own ITSM, the Desk and Also FTE and MSP ops support for the globe — 22k employees and 110 locations. Own most of the Ops endpoint and monitoring tools as well as ITOM tools as well - service now itom included.
Got an offer from our CISO to take a lateral into IAM, cyber engineering for various cyber tools that I overlap with mostly today. Told if I could pick up CISM this year I’d move to Director when we open up budget this year for ‘27 (obviously I know not guaranteed in this market).
My current role has little room for growth because of an org flattening post a RIF, they just eliminated my retiring Directors role and had me report to a VP now. I’m comfortable and have a solid salary base and bonus structure and would carry it over in the lateral and maybe a small tiny bump for now (176K and 25% bonus).
I’d like to move into the F500 Director level but wanted everyone’s thoughts on shifting from almost 2 decades of Infrastructure Ops to Cyber. I feel like long term this would be a good resume builder if I’ve done something middle management in another function, but just wanted some backup on that or second opinions.
Thanks in advance.