Director of Technology - Security Operations Center

CSC • Wilmington, NC

3d • Remote

About The Position

The Security Director will lead the Security Operations Center, enabling not only strategy, but leading leaders to manage 24/7 operations, overseeing incident response, detection and cyber engineering. The Director will ensure teams leverage automation and artificial intelligence to their full potential while developing the team to exceed their own expectations. The position requires not only passion, but the unwavering ability to protect an organization's digital assets from cyber threats, requiring strong technical, leadership, and financial skills to manage staff, tools, budgets, and processes for effective defense. Reporting to executive leadership. As CSC’s global technology footprint continues to grow, this leader will work with business and technology leadership to ensure the right support processes, standards, and policies are in place to keep our critical applications online. This leader will work with a matrixed set of employees, vendors, and partners to provide leading support services in a transparent and performance driven manner. This individual will have a diversified background of technical infrastructure experience, demonstrated project management acumen, excellent vendor management skills, plus a superior, service-oriented approach to infrastructure engineering and a strong customer focus, all within a multi cloud, hybrid environment. As a senior leader you will also serve as a member of the senior IT leadership team shaping IT strategy, making investment and priority trade-off decisions, reducing unit costs, negotiating and managing vendor contracts, and improving employee talent, commitment and morale.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles, threats, and defense strategies.
• Proven leadership and team management experience.
• Expertise with security technologies (SIEM, SOAR, XDR, SSE, Threat Analysis Platforms, etc.).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration and reporting.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field desired, Graduate/post graduate preferred.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of infrastructure or technical leadership experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Network Operations, Network Engineering, or Security Operations. Combination of the 3 preferred.
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and execute in a high-pressure environment.
• Demonstrated ability to assess customer/client needs, creatively approach solutions, decide and influence appropriate courses of action.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical ideas in easy-to-understand business terms.

Nice To Haves

• GIAC, ISC2 or ISACA certification(s) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Threat Detection & Response : Oversee SOC operations, threat intelligence, and incident response to ensure rapid, decisive action.
• Security Architecture & Engineering : Champion secure-by-design principles, cloud and perimeter defense, cryptography, and endpoint protection configurations.
• Operations Management : Oversee daily monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability management, and security tool efficacy (SIEM, EDR, etc.). ensure shift schedules for 24/7 coverage.
• Incident Response Leadership : Lead major incident command, ensuring containment, eradication, and recovery. Act as a subject matter expert for security issues.
• Budget & Finance : Manage the SOC budget, finances, and resource allocation.
• Strategy & Planning : Define the SOC's vision, roadmap, KPIs, and align security efforts with business goals.
• Team Leadership : Recruit, train, mentor, and evaluate cyber security analysts, engineers and managers.
• Continuous Improvement : Stay current on threats, conduct purple team exercises, and drive efficiency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees