Director of Cybersecurity Operations

Athena; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Athena is seeking a Head of InfoSec Operations to lead cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management. You will partner with IT, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to balance security with business needs, while serving as the primary liaison for client security inquiries and due diligence.

The role requires hands-on security leadership, strong communication, and the ability to drive security maturity across cloud and on‑premise environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, or related fields.
• 3-5+ years in a dedicated security operations leadership or security management role.
• Hands-on experience with incident response, security monitoring, threat detection, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and security investigations.
• Experience managing or operating security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, SOAR, XDR, and cloud security monitoring.
• Experience securing cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong written and verbal communication for executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the company’s security operations function, including monitoring, detection, investigation, response, and remediation.
• Serve as incident commander for major cybersecurity incidents with triage, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Own the operational incident response process, including playbooks, escalation paths, and readiness exercises.
• Ensure logging, monitoring, alerting, and security visibility across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, network, and application environments.
• Oversee threat detection, threat hunting, security investigations, malware analysis, and forensic response activities.
• Establish and track security operations metrics and remediation timelines.
• Conduct tabletop exercises and regular readiness reviews to improve incident response maturity.

Skills

Incident response

Security monitoring

Threat detection

Threat intelligence

Vulnerability management

Security investigations

Security operations

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering or related

Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCIH, GCIA, CRISC, ISSAP, OSCP

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

XDR

Cloud security monitoring

Identity security tools

Job description

Athena is seeking a Head of InfoSec Operations to lead cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management. You will partner with IT, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Sales to balance security with business needs, while serving as the primary liaison for client security inquiries and due diligence.

The role requires hands-on security leadership, strong communication, and the ability to drive security maturity across cloud and on‑premise environments.