Director Of Cyber Security Operations Center Jobs

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Responsibilities to include:

Security Operations Center Leadership:

• Provide strategic and operational leadership of the global security operations center, establishing the vision, operating model, and maturity roadmap for a world class detection and response capability

• Establish and monitor performance objectives for the operations function, including detection coverage, alert quality, and response time targets, with continuous improvement against measurable outcomes.

Incident Response Strategy and Execution

• Own strategic direction of the enterprise Incident Response function, including playbooks, escalation paths, tabletop and technical exercises, and executive communications.

• Partner with XDR service providers and managed security services to deliver around the clock detection and response coverage, ensuring clear roles, service levels, and accountability across internal and external teams.

• Lead major incident response engagements, coordinating internal, managed service, and external partner resources through containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned. SOAR and AI Enabled Operations

• Mature the operations function by establishing SOAR capabilities that automate triage, enrichment, and response actions to reduce mean time to detect and mean time to respond.

• Leverage AI capabilities to augment analyst workflows, improve signal quality, and scale the operations team to meet the demands of the modern threat landscape.

Cybersecurity Engineering Leadership

• Lead the Cybersecurity Engineering teams responsible for managing enterprise security technology capabilities, including endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and email security platforms.

• Drive engineering standards for deployment, configuration, lifecycle management, and health monitoring of security technologies across a global environment.

SIEM and Telemetry Management

• Own the strategy for integrating and rightsizing telemetry into the SIEM, ensuring the right sources, parsing, enrichment, and retention to support timely reporting and automation.

• Continuously evaluate telemetry value against cost, tuning ingestion and detection content to keep pace with, or ahead of, threats as they emerge. Threat Detection and Intelligence

• Establish detection engineering practices that translate threat intelligence into high quality detections mapped to industry frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

• Operationalize threat intelligence to prioritize detection coverage, threat hunting, and response readiness for the threats most relevant to the business. Managed Services and Vendor Governance

• Govern the performance of XDR, managed detection and response, and incident response retainer partners through defined service levels, quality reviews, and continuous improvement plans.

• Right size the balance of internal and external capabilities to optimize cost, coverage, and institutional knowledge.

Team Leadership and Development

• Build, lead, and develop high performing global engineering and operations teams, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.

• Establish a sustainable surge and after hours response model that is well practiced and supported by clear procedures, training, and tooling. Metrics, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Define and report key operational metrics for executive and board level audiences, tying operational performance to measurable risk reduction.

• Drive post incident reviews and continuous improvement across people, process, and technology.

Collaboration and Enterprise Alignment

• Partner with enterprise cybersecurity functions, including governance risk and compliance, product security, and regional security leaders, to align operations with enterprise strategy and compliance obligations.

• Support audit, regulatory, and customer assurance activities with timely evidence and operational expertise.

Minimum Job Requirements

Education

Work Experience

• 10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years leading security operations, incident response, or security engineering functions.

• Demonstrated leadership of global teams spanning engineering and operations disciplines.

• Experience directing enterprise incident response, including major incident command and coordination with external incident response partners, legal counsel, and executive leadership

• Experience managing XDR, MSSP, or managed detection and response service providers, including contract, service level, and performance management.

• Experience implementing or operating SOAR platforms and SIEM technologies at enterprise scale, including telemetry onboarding, detection engineering, and automation.

• Experience with industry security best practices and frameworks, including but not limited to NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and ISO 27001.

• Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to brief executives during high pressure incidents and translate technical detail into business terms.

• Strong understanding of modern security operations, including detection engineering, automation, and the application of AI to security operations workflows.

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to make sound decisions quickly under pressure.

Preferred Job Requirements

Education

Certification / License

• CISSP, CISM, or GIAC certifications such as GCIH or GCED, or equivalent

• Work Experience

• Leadership of a large scale security operations center or managed detection and response function.

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