About the Role
Lead the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of enterprise cyber defense capabilities. Ensure effective threat detection, incident response, and operational resilience across various entities, brands, and technology environments within the company.
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Key Responsibilities
- Cyber Defence Strategy: Lead the company’s cyber defense roadmap, operating model, technical standards, and capability development, ensuring alignment with business and security priorities.
- Team Leadership: Provide functional leadership to security teams and external partners, overseeing performance, technical development, mentoring, and resource planning.
- Incident Response & Digital Forensics: Lead major cyber incident investigations, forensic analysis, containment, and recovery coordination. Develop incident response playbooks and conduct simulation exercises.
- Detection Engineering & Security Platforms: Oversee enterprise detection capabilities and optimization of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and security monitoring solutions, aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.
- Threat Intelligence & Hunting: Drive proactive threat hunting, intelligence-led detection, and continuous improvements to the company’s defensive posture.
- AI & Automation: Lead the adoption of AI-enabled security solutions, automated triage, SOAR workflows, and innovative security technologies.
- Security Operations & Governance: Manage cyber defense performance, KPIs, service quality, and external security providers, collaborating with internal stakeholders to enhance cyber resilience.
Requirements
- 10+ years of cybersecurity experience, with strong technical leadership in cyber defense, security operations, incident response, and detection engineering.
- Proven experience leading and scaling cyber defense capabilities in large, complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection engineering.
- Advanced technical knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, MITRE ATT&CK, security automation, and cloud security (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Experience implementing AI-driven security solutions and automated response capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, manage security vendors/MSSPs, and influence senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, including NIST CSF and ISO/IEC 27001.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCFE, GCFA, GCFR, OSCP, or equivalent.
What We Can Offer You
- Opportunities to turn your aspirations into reality through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments.
- Diverse career paths for extraordinary individuals.
- Competitive benefits package, including health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, and exclusive employee discounts.
Using GenAI in Your Application Process
To ensure a fair and consistent experience for all candidates, assessments and interviews must be completed independently without assistance from generative AI tools. This process helps us understand your strengths, thinking, and problem-solving approaches.
Diversity and Inclusion
We invite all applicants to apply. Diversity of thought, culture, background, and differing abilities and perspectives inspires, exhilarates, and delights our customers. We are committed to inclusion and diversity, guaranteeing equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.
