Senior Cyber Defense & Security Ops Leader

SanDisk; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 333,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandisk is seeking a Senior Director of Cyber Defense & Security Operations in Irvine, CA. This executive role leads the enterprise cyber defense program, reporting to the CISO, and guiding security operations, threat detection, incident response and cyber defense engineering across a global technology environment.

The position requires strategic and technical leadership, with the ability to communicate threat and risk to senior leadership and drive a multi-year security roadmap in a

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CISO to develop and execute the organization's enterprise cyber defense and security operations strategy.
• Establish a comprehensive cyber defense operating model encompassing prevention, detection, investigation, containment, response, remediation, and recovery.
• Develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap for security operations, threat detection, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and cyber defense engineering.
• Translate emerging threats and business risks into actionable cyber defense priorities, investments, capabilities, and technical controls.
• Establish measurable security operations objectives, service levels, performance metrics, and maturity targets.
• Continuously assess cyber defense capabilities against the changing threat landscape and identify opportunities to improve organizational resilience.
• Balance security requirements with business velocity, operational requirements, and the needs of a fast-moving global technology organization.
• Provide executive leadership and oversight for the organization's Security Operations Center (SOC) and enterprise security monitoring capabilities.
• Ensure effective 24x7 monitoring, detection, investigation, escalation, and response capabilities appropriate to organizational risk.
• Develop and continuously improve threat detection strategies across endpoints, networks, cloud environments,

Job description

Sandisk is seeking a Senior Director of Cyber Defense & Security Operations in Irvine, CA. This executive role leads the enterprise cyber defense program, reporting to the CISO, and guiding security operations, threat detection, incident response and cyber defense engineering across a global technology environment.

The position requires strategic and technical leadership, with the ability to communicate threat and risk to senior leadership and drive a multi-year security roadmap in a