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Senior Director – Cyber Defense Engineering
Location
Pennsylvania
Posted
96 days ago
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0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Director – Cyber Defense Engineering
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• Define and execute the enterprise cyber defense architecture strategy aligned to threat landscape and risk appetite in collaboration with Cyber Defense senior leadership • Develop layered defense models across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and SaaS • Establish and document detection engineering standards and reference architectures • Present defense posture maturity, risk trends, and roadmap to executive leadership • Establish the enterprise detection engineering program and lead evaluation of new tools and technologies to support the Cyber Defense ecosystem • Define logging standards and telemetry requirements across platforms • Collaborate & partner with key stakeholders to oversee use case lifecycle management (creation, tuning, retirement) • Standardize MITRE ATT&CK mapping across detections • Reduce false positives while increasing true positive detection rates in collaboration with Cyber Defense teams • Oversee or drive a collaborative approach to architecture and engineering of: SIEM platforms, SOAR playbooks, EDR/XDR solutions, NDR solutions, Email security and anti-phishing platforms, Deception technologies, Threat intelligence platforms, Security data lakes and analytics platforms • Integrate defense controls across: Public cloud environments, Hybrid data centers, SaaS platforms, Enterprise networks, endpoints and mobile, OT/IoT (in partnership with OT sr. cybersecurity leadership) • Drive automation, AI/ML integration, and policy-as-code for response workflows in collaboration with Cloud Security and other senior security leaders • Enable automated containment and remediation capabilities • Partner with Incident Response and Cyber Counter Adversary leadership for operational efficiency and maturity uplifts • Support purple team exercises to validate detection and response effectiveness • Integrate strategic, tactical, and operational threat intelligence into engineering roadmap • Translate threat actor activity into detection content and control enhancements • Support M&A security integrations and divestiture disentanglement • Ensure compliance with global regulatory regimes • Establish KPIs, OKRs, and performance dashboards • Establish control validation framework • Lead breach simulation and continuous control monitoring as needed to support Cyber Defense senior leaders • Report measurable defense maturity to executive leadership and other senior leaders • Lead global team of detection engineers, platform engineers, and automation specialists • Establish engineering career paths and succession planning
Job Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
- GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
- GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
- Certification in Information Security Strategy Management (CISM)
- Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- 12+ years of directly-related or relevant experience with 8+ years in a managerial capacity, preferably in information security
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision care
- backup dependent care
- adoption assistance
- infertility coverage
- family building support
- behavioral health solutions
- paid parental leave
- paid caregiver leave
- training programs
- professional development resources
- mentorship programs
- employee resource groups
- volunteer activities
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