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You will be accountable for the organization’s ability to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from cyber threats-while building a scalable team, mature processes, and strong partnerships across Security, IT, Engineering, Risk, and the business.\nThis role combines executive leadership with operational ownership. You will lead incident response readiness, detection strategy, threat intelligence, automation, and continuous improvement, ensuring security operations are both effective today and prepared for the organization’s future needs.\nWhat you’ll doLead security operations\nDefine and execute the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for the ISOC.\nLead a 24x7 security operations team, including managers, analysts, incident responders, and specialized technical resources.\nEstablish clear service levels, escalation paths, quality standards, staffing models, and shift-coverage practices.\nEnsure timely, consistent, and risk-based triage, investigation, containment, and recovery for security events and incidents.\nBuild a culture of accountability, operational discipline, learning, and continuous improvement.\nOwn incident readiness and response\nProvide leadership during significant security incidents, coordinating technical, business, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders as needed.\nEnsure incident response plans, playbooks, exercises, and communications processes are current, tested, and effective.\nDrive post-incident reviews that result in meaningful improvements to technology, processes, controls, and organizational readiness.\nCommunicate material risks, incident status, and operational performance clearly to senior leadership.\nAdvance detection, intelligence, and automation\nSet the strategy for detection engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and security automation.\nEnsure detection coverage is aligned to the threat landscape, critical assets, business priorities, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.\nOversee the development and tuning of use cases, rules, playbooks, and automation to improve detection quality and reduce response time.\nEstablish metrics for detection efficacy, false-positive rates, incident lifecycle performance, coverage, and operational maturity.\nPartner with engineering and platform teams to improve telemetry, visibility, and security tooling.\nBuild partnerships and scale capability\nPartner with IT, Engineering, Cloud, Identity, Legal, Risk, Privacy, and business leaders to integrate security operations into enterprise processes.\nManage relationships with security vendors, managed service providers, and other external partners.\nLead workforce planning, hiring, development, succession planning, and budget management for the function.\nDrive major programs such as new tool adoption, SIEM modernization, automation initiatives, cloud-security integration, and security operations maturity assessments.\nPresent strategy, performance, risks, and investment needs to executive leadership.\nWhat you’ll bringSignificant experience leading security operations, incident response, or cyber defense teams in a complex enterprise environment.\nDemonstrated success building, scaling, or transforming a security operations center or similar 24x7 function.\nDeep understanding of incident response, threat detection, SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud security, network security, and security automation.\nExperience leading high-severity incident response and communicating effectively with executives and cross-functional stakeholders.\nStrong operational leadership skills, including defining metrics, service levels, processes, staffing models, and improvement roadmaps.\nExperience developing leaders and building inclusive, high-performing technical teams.\nAbility to translate technical risk into clear business implications, priorities, and investment decisions.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nNice to haveExperience leading global or multi-site security operations teams.\nExperience with cloud-native environments, large-scale identity ecosystems, or complex hybrid infrastructure.\nFamiliarity with regulatory, privacy, audit, and third-party-risk requirements.\nExperience with SOAR, SIEM modernization, security data platforms, or AI-assisted security operations.\nRelevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or cloud-security certifications.\nA degree in cybersecurity, computer science, business, or a related field-or equivalent leadership experience.\nHow you’ll make an impactYou will shape the future of security operations at a foundational moment for the ISOC. Your leadership will strengthen the organization’s ability to respond to threats, reduce operational risk, develop security talent, and build a mature, resilient, intelligence-driven security operations capability.\n\nKey\nResponsibilities\nSecurity\nOperations - Vulnerability Assessment:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Guides\nthe execution of critical security testing and vulnerability assessments to\nidentify, prioritize, and mitigate information security threats and\nvulnerabilities in software, networks, and systems.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Governs\nremediation processes of multiple functions to ensure appropriate\nidentification, assignment, and timely remediation, providing strategic\nguidance as needed.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Develops\nthe standards for documentation process and vulnerability advisory documents,\ngoverning the process to ensure alignment.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Develops\npolicies and standards regarding teams subscribing to vulnerability feeds to\nensure the vulnerability assessments identify issues and assure their\nremediation.\nSecurity\nOperations - Security Solutions and Programs:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Provides\noversight on the creation and implementation of critical security solutions and\ndrives the development of organizational security programs to mitigate security\nrisks.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Governs\nthe creation of remediation plans to address security risks, proactively\nengaging with process owners to monitor and ensure progress.\nSecurity\nOperations - Security Event Monitoring:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Defines\nand drives the organization's strategic security monitoring strategy, aligning\nit with industry best practices and emerging threats.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Presents\ncomprehensive metrics and reports on detection gaps, coverage, and overall\nsecurity posture to executive leadership.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Directs\nthe overall management of security tools to ensure that they have access to\nreal-time data.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Guides\nthe performance and documentation of initial triage of security events for\nescalation to incident management.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Governs\ngap identification and resolution processes in the current security monitoring\nsystems, driving innovations of solutions.\nSecurity\nOperations - Incident Management:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Guides\nthe response to and investigation and triage of critical events and incidents,\nestablishing and refining escalation processes and ensuring top-level\nresolution.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Governs\ndocumentation and analysis of security events and alerts and develops\norganizational strategies to address and mitigate future threats, while\nmaintaining direct communication with executive leadership.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Directs\ndata collection, preservation, log analysis, and highly complex forensic\nanalysis of digital media.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Evaluates\nreporting of incident management and root cause analysis results, guiding\nCorrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) processes.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Provides\nstrategic oversight on incident response processes.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Guides\nthe root cause analysis and CAPA processes.\nSecurity\nOperations - Collaboration:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Drives\ncollaboration and alignment with members of other lines of business to address\nsecurity concerns and initiatives, fostering a culture of security awareness\nand accountability.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Fosters\nstrategic partnerships with other information security team leaders to\nproactively enhance the organizational security posture.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Develops\nstrategic relationships with Legal, Platform, Product, and security teams\nacross Lines of Business (LOBs) to identify root causes of issues, work to\naddress them, and champion innovating new functionality.\nCompliance\n- Security Compliance Support:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Ensures\nrigorous monitoring of the security controls in the IT, operations, or service\nenvironment, guiding the implementation of sophisticated controls required to\nmeet key security frameworks and regulatory requirements.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leads\nand oversees high-level responses and actions to regulatory or\ncompliance-related audits, assessments, and inquiries.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Governs\nthe collection of evidence for various frameworks and management of security\nissues for security-related controls that the teams are responsible for,\nensuring that all processes are in place to collect necessary information for\naudits and that information is sent to the compliance team.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Oversees\nthe technical support provided to the compliance team to answer questions in\nareas where technical and organizational background is required, providing\nstrategic guidance as needed.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Leads\nstrategic coordination between security operations and compliance teams to\nfacilitate compliance audit and provides support (e.g., participates in\nauditing kickoff calls, runs through documentation, answers any technical\nquestions the auditor may have).\nCore\nresponsibilities include:\nPlanning\n& Execution:\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Provides\nstrategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or\ninitiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to\nensure success.\nmargin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'>-Sets\nstrategies for appropriately delegating work, 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