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This role provides strategic and operational leadership across security monitoring and incident response, exposure management, business continuity and disaster recovery, security awareness, and managed security service providers, ensuring cyber risks are effectively identified, managed, and remediated. The Director partners closely with executive leadership, IT, business stakeholders, and external partners to enhance cyber resilience, drive continuous improvement, and deliver a high-performing security operations program aligned with business objectives and risk tolerance. This role will be based out of Irving, Texas.Responsibilities\nOperational Governance & Managed Services Oversight\nGovern the performance, delivery, and continuous improvement of managed security service providers (e.g., MDR, SOC, vulnerability management).\nDefine and enforce service-level agreements (SLAs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and outcome-driven metrics aligned to business risk.\nEnsure appropriate escalation, incident handling, and reporting processes are in place and operating effectively.\nThreat Detection & Response (SOC / CIRT)\nOversee enterprise threat detection, monitoring, and incident response capabilities, including SIEM, EDR, and threat intelligence integration.\nEnsure readiness and effectiveness of incident response processes, including coordination with crisis management and external partners.\nDrive maturity in detection engineering, threat hunting, and response orchestration to reduce dwell time and improve response outcomes.\nProvide executive-level reporting on threat landscape, incident trends, and response effectiveness.\nBusiness Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)\nGovern cybersecurity alignment with enterprise business continuity and disaster recovery planning.\nEnsure cyber incident scenarios are integrated into BC/DR plans and regularly tested through exercises.\nCoordinate with IT and business stakeholders to validate recovery capabilities and resilience objectives.\nExposure Management (Vulnerability Management & Application Security)\nLead the enterprise exposure management program, including vulnerability identification, prioritization, and remediation governance.\nOversee application security practices, including secure SDLC integration and application risk assessments.\nPartner with infrastructure and application owners to ensure timely remediation of identified risks.\nDrive adoption of continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) principles\nSecurity Awareness & Human Risk Management\nOversee the design and execution of the enterprise security awareness program, including phishing simulations and targeted training.\nMeasure and report on human risk reduction metrics and program effectiveness.\nFoster a security-aware culture across the organization.\nStrategy & Continuous Improvement\nPartner with cybersecurity leadership to define and execute the strategic roadmap for cybersecurity operations capabilities.\nIdentify opportunities to enhance automation, AI-driven detection/response, and operational efficiency.\nDrive continuous improvement initiatives across people, process, and technology dimensions.\nStakeholder Engagement & Leadership\nAct as a key liaison between cybersecurity, IT, business units, and external partners.\nProvide regular briefings to executive leadership on operational risk, program maturity, and performance.\nBuild and lead a high-performing team, including internal staff and service providers.\nQualifications\nExperience\n10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, 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