Senior Manager, Cybersecurity

NVIDIA; United States; Remote; USD 240,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking a senior security leader to head Cyber Defense & Response, guiding the incident lifecycle and containment decisions. You will partner with incident responders, security engineers, threat intelligence, and product teams to safeguard NVIDIA's corporate, cloud, and product environments, with a focus on automation and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead a global, 24x7 team, drive metric-driven improvements, and translate threat-informed defense strategies into practical plans that

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in cybersecurity, including 4+ years managing people within a SOC or incident response.
• Strong ability to read SIEM queries, evaluate automation workflows, and investigate alerts.
• Deep knowledge of cloud security, IAM, endpoint protection, and AI/ML workloads.
• Proven track record owning operational metrics and driving improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day Cyber Defense & Response (CDR) functions with alignment to strategy.
• Own the incident response lifecycle from start to finish and lead containment.
• Broaden detection/response across on-prem and multi-cloud, GPUs/AI workloads.
• Set monitoring requirements, coverage goals, and compliance needs.
• Own performance metrics like MTTD, MTTR, MTTC, and false positives reduction.
• Run CDR improvements with agile planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Automate manual SOC tasks with AI-driven pipelines.
• Collaborate with Security Engineering to operationalize tooling and playbooks.

Skills

Incident response

SOC leadership

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

SIEM/EDR

Automation & AI

Agile methods

Cross-functional collaboration

Forensics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Job description

You will lead security operations and incident response initiatives across the organization. This role is ideal for a security leader who confidently addressescritical securityincidents and swiftly makes containment decisions. It includes supporting the team’s health, operational processes, and cross-function collaborations that foster a strong, high-performing security function.

Serving as amanager on the Cyber Defense & Response team, you will guide the complete incident response lifecycle. You will ensure operational preparedness ismaintainedto support it. You will convert NVIDIA’s engineering-first, technology-focused, threat-informed defense strategy into practical plans. You will partner closely with skilled incident responders, security engineers, threat intelligence specialists, and product, platform, and engineering teams to safeguard NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product environments.

Whatyou’llbe doing:

• Lead day-to-day Cyber Defense & Response (CDR) functions, ensuring operational readiness, execution rigor, and alignment with NVIDIA’s cybersecurity strategy.

• Responsible for the incident response lifecycle from start to finish. Act as the point person for critical incidents and lead efforts to investigate, contain, recover, and review the incident afterward.

• Increase detection and response efficiency by continuously broadening coverage across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, targeting GPU-accelerated and AI/ML workloads.

• Set detection expectations and standards aligned to NVIDIA’s threat landscape, defining monitoring requirements, coverage goals, and compliance requirements.

• Own operational performance and outcomes, including MTTD, MTTC, MTTR, detection coverage, alert quality, and false-positive reduction—focused on root-cause improvement.

• RunCDRimprovementsfollowing agile methods, keeping a risk-prioritized backlog and guiding delivery via planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Drive agentic transformation of manual SOC work — identify repetitive analyst tasks and convert them into automated, event-based AI pipelines.

• Partner with Security Engineering to operationalize tooling, automation, playbooks, and post-incident improvementsthat measurablyimproveresponse efficiency.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Scienceor related field, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ overall years of experience in cybersecurity, including 4+ yearsmanaging people within a SOC or incident response function.

• Strong technical depth to step into an active incident independently — reading SIEM queries, evaluating automation workflows,investigatingalerts, and assessing case qualitywithdeepexpertisein SOC-relevant domains (digital forensics & incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, detection engineering, log analysis, malware analysis, or security automation).

• Strong knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP, and other CSPs), identity and accessmanagement, endpoint protection, and securing containerized or GPU-based AI/ML workloads.

• Demonstrated experience owning operational metrics and driving measurableimprovements.

• Experience building or improving incident response processes, playbooks, and critical issue workflows.

• Proven ability to lead global, 24x7 teams across distributed shift structures using agile practices, with ownership of backlog prioritization and sprint metrics.

• Ability to convey complex security concepts clearly to engineers, executives, and legal and compliance partners.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Calm, decisive leadership during high-severity incidents — leading teams, making containment calls under pressure, and presenting clearly across technical and executive stakeholders.

• Track recorddeploying security automation, orchestration, analytics, andAIagentic SOC workflowsthat measurablyreducemanual workload,false positives, analyst toil,andresponse times.

• Experience developing detections and response playbooks for AI/ML systems, coordinating with product orsupply‑chainsecurity teams, and integrating or migrating SIEM/EDR across hybridmulti‑cloudenvironments, including CSP log sources, MDR partners, andco‑manageddetection and response models.

• Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCFR, CISSP, or AWS/Azure Security, plusa track recordbuilding high-trust teams that learn continuously and hold standards high.

• Recognized builder of team culture — cultivating psychological safety, fostering continuous learning, and celebrating wins while holding standards high.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one ofthe technologyworld’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Ifyou’recreative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 240,000 USD - 379,500 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 10, 2026.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.