Senior Director - Cyber Defense Engineering

Cencora

Senior Director - Cyber Defense Engineering

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Carrollton TX USA

In-Office

Senior level

Healthtech • Logistics • Pharmaceutical

We are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures

The Role

The Senior Director leads the cyber defense architecture strategy oversees detection engineering standards and integrates cyber defense platforms across various environments. Responsibilities include partnership with technology teams establishing compliance with regulatory frameworks and reporting defense maturity to executive leadership.

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Job Details
Summary:
The Senior Director of Cyber Defense Architecture & Engineering leads the strategy design engineering and continuous improvement of enterprise detection response and threat mitigation capabilities across the enterprise. This role is accountable for building or integrating resilient intelligence-driven automated cyber defense platforms spanning endpoint network cloud identity data and SaaS environments. This role is responsible for building strong partnerships with technology teams other corporate support functions and other Information Security organizations to protect the corporate brand data and assets and is responsible for the design implementation operation and maintenance of an information security framework processes and systems that protect the business services information and systems against unauthorized use disclosure modification damage and loss.
The position partners closely with the CISO Cyber Defense Sr. Leadership other Information Security Sr. Leaders and other Technology Leadership teams to establish a vision and strategy required to ensure scalable measurable and continuously improving defense capabilities across the applicable security domain in collaboration with other information security domain leaders and partner organizations.
Our employee experience is a strategic priority for our company. Our leaders are accountable for leading with purpose fairness and equity. They are responsible for building and developing diverse teams maintaining a safe and inclusive environment setting clear priorities and holding self and team accountable for executing with excellence.
Primary Responsibilities:

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 stakeholder 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 (AWS Azure GCP)
Hybrid data centers
SaaS platforms
Enterprise networks endpoints and mobile
OT/IoT (in partnership with OT sr. cybersecurity leadership)

Additional Responsibilities:

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 (e.g. HIPAA GDPR SOX FDA/GxP where applicable).
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.
Enterprise financial management and planning experience.
Follows information security trends within and outside of work with executive leadership to strategize and recommend changes and updates to company.

Qualifications:
Education:

Master's Degree in Business Administration Computer Science Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

Preferred Certifications:

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

Work Experience:

12+ years of directly-related or relevant experience with 8+ years in a managerial capacity preferably in information security.

Behavioral Skills:

Coaching and Mentoring
Creativity & Innovation
Decision Making
Leadership Skills
People Management
Planning
Risk-taking

Technical Skills:

IT Risk Management
IT Controls
Cyber Attack Mitigation
Enterprise IT Management
Network Security
Service Level Maintenance
Information Security Strategy Continuity
Threat Modelling
Information Security Strategy Standards (SOX ISO 27001/27002 COBIT ITIL NIST PCI)

Tools Knowledge:

Microsoft Office Suite
Security Tools - CSPM CWPP CDR CNAPP SIEM EDR Email Security Gateway SOAR Firewall Anti-virus Firewalls VPN IDS/IPS AV proxies etc.
Security Testing Tools - Open Source and COTS security tools
Threat Intelligence Tools
Vulnerability Testing Tools

What Cencora offers
We provide compensation benefits and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical dental and vision care we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical emotional financial and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families which may include backup dependent care adoption assistance infertility coverage family building support behavioral health solutions paid parental leave and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth we also offer a variety of training programs professional development resources and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs employee resource groups volunteer activities and much more. For details visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora
Full time
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity genetic information national origin age disability veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal state or local law.
The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting training compensation benefits promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation

Skills Required

Master's Degree in Business Administration Computer Science Information Technology or related discipline
12+ years of directly-related experience
8+ years in a managerial capacity preferably in information security

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The Company

HQ: Conshohocken PA

51000 Employees

Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

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