Senior Director of Cyber Defense Architecture & Engineering
Core
Leads strategy, design, and engineering of enterprise detection, response, and threat mitigation capabilities across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, data, and SaaS environments.
Role type
Senior Director, Cyber Defense Architecture & Engineering
Builds
Resilient, intelligence-driven, automated cyber defense platforms and detection engineering programs
Domain
Enterprise Information Security / Cyber Defense
Required skills
Enterprise cyber defense architecture strategy, layered defense modeling, Zero Trust architecture, detection engineering standards, threat intelligence integration, automation and AI/ML integration, policy-as-code, breach simulation, global team leadership, enterprise financial management
Preferred skills
Cloud security strategy, OT/IoT security integration, M&A security integrations, regulatory compliance strategy (HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, FDA/GxP)
Technologies
SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, Email security, Deception technologies, Threat intelligence platforms, CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Define and execute enterprise cyber defense architecture strategy; Develop layered defense models; Establish detection engineering standards and reference architectures; Collaborate on Zero Trust monitoring and enforcement; Present defense posture maturity and roadmap to executives; Lead evaluation of new tools and technologies; Define logging standards and telemetry requirements; Oversee use case lifecycle management; Standardize MITRE ATT&CK mapping; Reduce false positives and increase true positive detection rates; Drive automation and AI/ML integration for response workflows; Enable automated containment and remediation; Partner with Incident Response and Cyber Counter Adversary leadership; Support purple team exercises; Integrate threat intelligence into engineering roadmap; Translate threat actor activity into detection content; Integrate defense controls across public cloud, hybrid data centers, SaaS, and OT/IoT; Support M&A security integrations; Ensure compliance with global regulatory regimes; Establish KPIs, OKRs, and performance dashboards; Lead breach simulation and continuous control monitoring; Lead global team of detection engineers, platform engineers, and automation specialists; Establish engineering career paths and succession planning
Seniority
Senior Director, Strategy & Hands-on Leadership
