Director Security Operations

About the job

Are you looking to advance your career and flex your leadership and security skills in a fast-paced and rewarding organization? Join us! As the Director of Security, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the organization's comprehensive security program, which includes information security, industrial security, special programs management, crisis management, and investigations. You will ensure the effective implementation of security policies, standards, and procedures across domestic and international operations. This role involves partnering with various business units to enhance and align security solutions with organizational goals while identifying and planning for emerging security threats.

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As the Director of Program Security, you will lead the overall security strategy for your Business Area's activities under the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) and Intelligence Community (IC), including collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), and Special Access Program (SAP) activities. You will be responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of Business Area security initiatives, ensuring compliance with all regulations, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This role requires strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to support classified business development, manage security budgets, and facilitate compliant mission success. This role requires active participation in professional security organizations to represent the company and monitor emerging requirements.

TA - Use this instead if Director Corporate Program Security business title

As the Director of Corporate Program Security, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the implementation and continuous improvement of corporate-wide physical security tools and procedures. This includes managing physical security systems such as access control, alarm systems, and CCTV, as well as associated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)-related compliance activities. You will ensure data integrity, coordinate cross-application interfaces, and align security policies with enterprise-wide procedures.

TA - Use this instead if Director Business Systems Cybersecurity business title

As the Director of Business Systems Cybersecurity, you will lead and manage all cybersecurity activities for business areas (BA) supporting current and future contracts. You will be responsible for corporate-wide cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), and implementing best practices. This role involves strategic planning, fostering continuous improvement, managing security budgets, and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

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As the Director of Security and Safety Data Integration Strategies, you will lead the business area data integration activities to support current and future contracts, and oversee the Security Operations Center (SOC) and its personnel. This role involves implementing Blue Team defense concepts, managing endpoint defense, improving operational processes, analyzing network traffic, and ensuring SOC management systems are effective. You will strategically plan and execute data analysis and integration initiatives, fostering continuous improvement, and maintaining compliance with all regulations.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities:

SOC Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Oversee 24x7x365 multi-tier SOC operations, establishing operational cadence, shift handovers, escalation paths, and service level agreements (SLAs/SLOs).
• Direct response strategies for critical incidents, serving as the senior escalation point and incident commander during active threats, breaches, and outages.
• Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs), playbooks, and runbooks aligned with industry frameworks (MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge [ATT&CK], MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems [ATLAS], National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework [NIST CSF], ISO 27001).
• Maintain high analyst performance and operational rigor while mitigating alert fatigue and burnout.
• Advance proactive threat hunting and active defense initiatives.
• Manage SOC Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and reporting.

Cloud Security Engineering & AI Modernization

• Lead the security engineering team charged with building, deploying, and maintaining cloud-native detection, response, and monitoring pipelines (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Champion the adoption of modern technologies, including machine learning models, predictive threat analytics, and autonomous AI agents to drive automated triage, alert enrichment, and remediation.
• Oversee SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native security platforms, continuously refining detection engineering, rule tuning, and pipeline efficiency.

Customer Engagement & Executive Communication

• Act as the senior operational liaison for key client stakeholders, enterprise leadership, and regulatory bodies.
• Lead high-stakes client briefings during major security incidents, presenting root-cause analyses, containment actions, and remediation paths with composure.
• Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Sales engineering teams to align SOC capabilities with client expectations and evolving service offerings.

Cyber Threat Intelligence & Reporting

• Oversee the production of actionable cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and operational reporting.
• Author and review detailed cyber activity reports, executive dashboards, and threat advisories for both technical teams and C-suite/external customer leadership.
• Translate complex telemetry, adversarial tactics, and forensic finding.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.

• 13+ years of experience in related role with at least 6+ years in a leadership role (Director, Senior Manager, or equivalent).

• Higher level relevant degree may substitute for experience.

• 7+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience.

• Verifiable background leading operations in an MSSP, government/defense intelligence agency SOC, or Fortune 500 enterprise SOC.

• Proven track record leading incident response and crisis management in high-stress, mission-critical scenarios under strict time constraints.

• Hands-on familiarity managing engineering initiatives involving cloud security architectures, automation/SOAR pipelines, and ML/AI-driven detection tooling.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to present technical threat analyses to executive committees and enterprise clients.

• Strong knowledge of information security, industrial security, and regulatory compliance.

• Proven ability to develop and implement policy, influence partners to incorporate security requirements into functional area operations, and drive process improvement both internal and external to the security organization.

• Proven ability to interpret intent of available guidelines/regulations and use considerable judgement in applying them to individual situations.

• Shows strong decision-making skills by clearly stating the BLUF (bottom line up front), highlighting what matters most, simplifying complex information, & making timely, well-reasoned decisions that drive the biggest impact (80/20).

• The ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Security Clearance is required.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Technical Competencies

• Deep understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), malware analysis lifecycles, and forensic methodologies.

• Practical exposure to LLMs, generative AI tools, or agentic frameworks deployed in security workflows (e.g., automated alert triage, natural-language threat hunting).

• Mastery of modern detection and telemetry stacks (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR, Datadog).

• Preferred Certifications & Education

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, or CCISO; advanced technical certifications such as GIAC (GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCDA) are highly desirable.

Essential Functions:

• Leading the strategic planning and execution of the security program.
• Developing and implementing security policies and strategy.
• Advising executive leadership on security-related matters.
• Conducting risk and compliance assessments and developing mitigation strategies.
• Working in an office or hybrid environment, with travel as needed.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• May require extended periods of sitting and working on a computer.

This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.

SNC offers annual incentive pay based upon performance that is commensurate with the level of the position.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Security Clearance. U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance for employment. Non-U.S. citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance. The Department of Defense Consolidated Adjudications Facility (DoD CAF), a federal government agency, handles the adjudicative aspects of the security clearance eligibility process for industry applicants. Adjudicative factors which affect the outcome of the eligibility determination include, but are not limited to, allegiance to the U.S., foreign influence, foreign preference, criminal conduct, security violations and illegal drug use.Learn more about the background check process for Security Clearances.

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination.  Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.