Senior Director, Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn Medicine, a leading academic medical center, seeks a Senior Director, Cybersecurity Engineering and Operations. You will lead architecture, engineering, and operations for enterprise protection technologies, guiding modernization, automation, and service maturity initiatives across the cybersecurity program.

You will partner with business and clinical leaders to reduce risk while enabling innovation, overseeing platform lifecycle, and driving measurable security outcomes across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 12+ years of IT experience required.
• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience required.
• Master's degree or 7+ years of management/leadership experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity engineering and operations teams responsible for implementation, configuration, lifecycle support, and operational reliability of enterprise protection technologies.
• Establish operating models, service expectations, support processes, and platform ownership standards for cybersecurity systems across the enterprise.
• Oversee enterprise firewalls, network segmentation controls, secure web gateways, remote access technologies, VPN services, cloud-delivered network security capabilities, and related network protection platforms.
• Direct endpoint protection capabilities including next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and prevention controls, application control, ransomware protection, attack surface reduction, device control, and endpoint compliance technologies.
• Own platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, policy and configuration maintenance, capacity planning, vendor management, technology refreshes, monitoring, documentation, and service continuity planning.
• Drive improvements in platform reliability, performance, scalability, supportability, and measurable security outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Cybersecurity

Engineering

Operations

Security architecture

Cloud security

Endpoint protection

Strategic planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

7+ years management/leadership experience

Job description

Penn Medicine, a leading academic medical center, seeks a Senior Director, Cybersecurity Engineering and Operations. You will lead architecture, engineering, and operations for enterprise protection technologies, guiding modernization, automation, and service maturity initiatives across the cybersecurity program.

You will partner with business and clinical leaders to reduce risk while enabling innovation, overseeing platform lifecycle, and driving measurable security outcomes across the