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The role owns the engineering function behind Managed Detection and Response (MDR), co-managed SIEM, data engineering, and Tier 1 (engineering triage) offerings from a technical perspective. This is a high-visibility leadership role that provides practice management, leadership, strategy, offer management, and sales enablement, and directs high-priority initiatives while ensuring adherence to quality standards and SLOs. The Director is accountable for metrics demonstrating continuous improvement and efficiency in the client operational experience, for maturing platform and detection engineering processes, and for driving scale through automation and orchestration. The position mentors and develops people leaders and engineers and works cross-functionally to resolve key client challenges.\nHow you'll make an impact\nLead the security engineering practice across the SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and other security platforms, providing operational and strategic planning, fostering innovation, and organizing and negotiating the allocation of resources across the MSS and AFC portfolio.\n\nOwn the technical direction and quality of MDR, co-managed SIEM, data engineering, and Tier 1 (engineering triage) offerings, including platform architecture, detection engineering standards, data-pipeline design, and SOAR orchestration.\n\nEstablish and drive process, documentation, and detection-content improvement; deliver metrics showing continuous improvement and efficiency in the client operational experience and adherence to SLOs.\n\nProvide practice management, offer management, and sales enablement, partnering on scoping, proposals, and offer development, and direct high-priority initiatives while ensuring quality standards are met.\n\nEnforce all policies and procedures, including those for security, change management, standards, and service provision; serve as an executive escalation point for platform and service delivery concerns.\n\nOwn accountability for the efficiency, value, and quality of the services the practice delivers, ensuring engineering leaders drive continuous improvement in cost, outcomes, and client experience.\n\nManage the financial aspects of the function, including input to purchasing, budgeting, and vendor/tooling decisions.\n\nManage staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions; perform annual staff appraisals and develop staff through training and performance management.\n\nStay abreast of evolving risks, platform capabilities, and vendor roadmaps; represent Optiv with clients, partners, and industry peers to inform engineering and operations processes.\n\nEstablish and maintain regular communications with executives, other group leaders, and clients on stewardship calls and escalations.\n\nThis list is not designed to be all-inclusive. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed.\n\nLeads the security engineering practice through Senior Managers and Managers. Accountable for organizational staffing, recruitment, development, performance management, budget, and disciplinary actions across the function.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nBachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university in a related field, or equivalent work experience; Master's Degree in a related field preferred.\n\nAdvanced security and/or leadership certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM) and relevant security platform vendor certifications preferred.\n\n10 or more years of information security and professional/managed services experience required.\n\nDemonstrated leadership of security engineering, SOC platform, or MSS delivery teams, including leadership of people managers, required.\n\nStrong information security and platform engineering experience across SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and additional security platforms such as Wiz and Cribl required.\n\nExperience with practice management, offer/sales enablement, and delivering managed security services engagements required.\n\nExperience driving scale through security automation and orchestration technologies preferred.\n\nMust be able to participate in scheduled and on-call/after-hours support, maintenance windows, and escalations across a 24x7x365 service.\n\nOccasional travel (typically less than 15%) may be required for client, team, or vendor engagements.\n\nAbility to read, analyze, and interpret technical documentation, statements of work, and service-level reporting.\n\nAbility to write clear runbooks, standard operating procedures, and executive-level communications.\n\nAbility to effectively present technical and service information to both technical staff and non-technical client stakeholders.\n\nWhat you can expect from Optiv\nA company committed to our inclusive value through our Employee Resource Groups\nWork/life balance\nProfessional training resources\nCreative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects\nVolunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.\nThe ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)\nEEO Statement\nOptiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.\nOptiv respects your privacy. By providing your information through this page or applying for a job at Optiv, you acknowledge that Optiv will collect, use, and process your information, which may include personal information and sensitive personal information, in connection with Optiv’s selection and recruitment activities. For additional details on how Optiv uses and protects your personal information in the application process, click here to view our Applicant Privacy Notice. 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