Cybersecurity Strategy & SOC Leadership

Linuxconfig; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a Director of Cybersecurity to own enterprise security strategy, SOC operations, incident response, and governance in a fast-growing spacecraft manufacturing environment in Playa Vista, CA.

The role partners with IT, compliance, engineering, and executive leadership to safeguard critical information assets. Leading a security team, you will drive security policy, tooling, risk assessments, and accreditation efforts (CMMC, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171) while

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity operations.
• Leadership experience in security management or SOC leadership.
• Experience leading CMMC, ISO 27001, and/or NIST programs including audits and continuous monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute multi-year cybersecurity strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Establish and maintain security policies, standards, reference architectures, and playbooks across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, and applications.
• Direct the SOC and security team in 24/7 monitoring, detection, triage, and response; own incident response readiness and post-incident analysis.
• Oversee security tooling selection, tuning, and optimization (SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, CASB/SASE, SOAR, vulnerability management).
• Lead governance, risk, and compliance efforts including accreditations (CMMC, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171) and audits.

Skills

SOC leadership

Security tooling

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Networking & OS knowledge

Compliance programs

US person eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity/IT

Tools

Elastic SIEM

Job description

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a Director of Cybersecurity to own enterprise security strategy, SOC operations, incident response, and governance in a fast-growing spacecraft manufacturing environment in Playa Vista, CA.

The role partners with IT, compliance, engineering, and executive leadership to safeguard critical information assets. Leading a security team, you will drive security policy, tooling, risk assessments, and accreditation efforts (CMMC, ISO 27001, NIST 800-171) while