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GE Renewable Energy Power and Aviation, Cincinnati, OH.

The Director - Cyber Security is accountable for providing strategic leadership for the GE Aerospace Cybersecurity Response Team (GCRT). This role is responsible for leading a global team of cybersecurity SOC analysts and incident responders to triage alerts and notables, detect and analyze potential cybersecurity threats, and contain and remediate cybersecurity incidents. This role manages the strategy for working with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) partners and is focused on continuous improvement to increase performance against KRIs and KPIs.

• Define and execute the global SOC and incident response strategy, aligned to enterprise risk, regulatory requirements, and business priorities to identify and mitigate cybersecurity threats
• Lead 24x7 SOC operations across regions, ensuring consistent detection, triage, containment, and recovery processes with clear escalation paths
• Design and develop incident response capabilities to increase effectiveness, integrating across architecture, detection engineering, SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, network, cloud, identity, email, OTN, and other platforms
• Lead major incident response efforts with some nontraditional working hours including technical actions to contain and remediate cybersecurity incidents and complete forensic investigations
• Operate a hybrid SOC model with clear roles and responsibilities while managing performance oversight and accountability of strategic MDR partners and incident response service providers
• Benchmark program capabilities against industry standards and peer organizations and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards for data protection and cybersecurity.
• Stay informed with the latest trends and technologies in cybersecurity to continuously enhance the organization’s defenses.
• Recruit, develop, and retain global talent, offering feedback and growth opportunities; establish on-call rotations, training, certifications, and career paths to strengthen team capability
• Manage team deliverables, setting goals and priorities throughout the year, and manage budgets related to scope of team
• Communicate effectively both within immediate team and GE leadership. Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results

Minimum of 8 years professional experience with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college; minimum of 11 years with an associate’s degree; minimum of 13 years with a high school diploma. Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Cybersecurity Incident Response or Digital Technology (DT). Note: Military experience is equivalent to professional experience.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job.
• This role requires the successful candidate to maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance; prerequisite for a security clearance is U.S. citizenship. Preference will be given to candidates who currently hold U.S. Government Security Clearance.

• Knowledge of aerospace and defense industries or GE Aerospace enterprise and cyber threats.
• Deep knowledge of cybersecurity threat detection, APT and cyber-crime threat actors, and cybersecurity frameworks, tools, and technologies.
• Prior experience in leading SOC or CIRT teams, cybersecurity incident response or investigations, and data forensics.
• Experience with a SIEM, SOAR, and threat detection across multiple attack surfaces including endpoint, network, cloud, identity, email, and OT.
• Familiarity with DoD and CMMC security and regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of Intelligence Driven Defense concepts including the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) related to detecting potential cybersecurity threats.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team of cybersecurity professionals.
• Ability to solve very complex security issues that span legal, compliance and regulatory obligations.
• Demonstrated thought leader, delivering new, supporting innovation solutions to exceed customer expectations.
• Excellent interpersonal, written / verbal communication and leadership skills with the ability to quickly build credibility, influence and make recommendations across all levels and business functions.
• Demonstrated experience embracing a team of teams way of working and ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment with limited direction.
• Focuses on continuous improvement and problem solving to enhance program capabilities, process improvements, champion and drive change initiatives, confront difficult circumstances in creative ways, balance multiple and competing priorities and execute accordingly.

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This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation.

GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected under the law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

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