Cyber Defense Unit Manager

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🐊 Florida, Massachusetts, +1 more states – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $170k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Manager

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Acronis

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2003

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B

Acronis is a cyber protection company that provides integrated backup, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity solutions delivered as cloud-native and on-premises software. It offers endpoint protection (EDR/XDR), anti-malware, email and Microsoft 365 protection, RMM and PSA tools, and MSP-focused multi-tenant management to enable service providers and businesses to detect, respond, and recover from cyberthreats. Acronis operates globally with compliant data centers, certifications, and a platform designed to consolidate backup, security, and IT management into a single solution.

📋 Description

• Lead the Cyber Defense function, including strategy, roadmap, operating model, and continuous maturity improvement • Manage, mentor, and develop a global team of analysts, responders, threat hunters, and detection engineers • Ensure security coverage across time zones, including follow-the-sun or on-call models • Define the build-versus-buy approach and manage MDR/MSSP and other external partners • Manage the Cyber Defense budget • Oversee 24x7 security monitoring, alert triage, investigation, and escalation across endpoints, networks, identities, applications, and cloud environments • Establish and maintain SOC processes, runbooks, severity definitions, and handoffs • Lead proactive threat hunting and attack surface monitoring • Own the detection engineering lifecycle, including use case development, testing, tuning, deployment, and retirement • Map detection coverage to MITRE ATT&CK and prioritize improvements • Define log source requirements and onboarding priorities with IT, Cloud, and Engineering • Run purple team and adversary emulation exercises • Lead response to significant cybersecurity incidents across Security, IT, Engineering, Legal, Communications, and executive leadership • Maintain and test incident response plans, playbooks, and crisis communication procedures • Oversee digital forensics, evidence handling, containment, eradication, and recovery • Support breach assessment and regulatory notification decisions • Run post-incident reviews and drive corrective actions to closure • Build and manage threat intelligence capabilities • Translate intelligence into detections, hunts, blocking actions, and risk-informed recommendations • Participate in industry intelligence-sharing communities and partnerships • Own and optimize SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms • Drive automation and AI-assisted capabilities for detection, enrichment, triage, investigation, and response • Leverage Acronis products and platform capabilities to strengthen internal defense • Establish KPIs and reporting for cyber defense effectiveness • Report cyber defense posture, major incidents, and risk trends to senior leadership, the Board, and Audit Committee when needed • Partner with Security, IT, Cloud, Engineering, Product Security, and Legal • Coordinate with Vulnerability Management and Product Security on exploitable risks, emergency patching, and threat-informed prioritization • Support audits, customer assurance requests, and regulatory requirements

🎯 Requirements

• Significant cybersecurity experience (typically 10+ years) in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or cyber defense, including 5+ years leading teams • Proven experience leading cybersecurity teams within a global technology or software environment, including distributed, multi-time-zone teams • Demonstrated experience leading major incident response efforts from detection through recovery and post-incident review • Strong understanding of modern attacker techniques, threat actor tradecraft, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK • Hands-on knowledge of SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, threat intelligence, and security monitoring technologies, including evaluation and optimization • Experience with threat hunting and detection engineering, including detection-as-code practices • Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, or other modern cloud environments, including cloud-native logging, detection, and response • Experience with digital forensics and investigations, and working knowledge of breach notification and regulatory requirements • Experience leveraging automation, scripting (e.g., Python), and ideally AI within security operations • Experience managing budgets, vendors, and managed security service providers • Strong leadership, analytical, and decision-making skills, particularly during high-pressure incidents • Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity risks clearly to technical and executive stakeholders, including legal and board audiences • High integrity and sound judgment when handling sensitive, confidential, and privileged information • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC (GCIH, GCFA, GCTI, GCDA), or OSCP are a plus • Full criminal, education and identification background check required for all new hires

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) • Disability insurance • Life insurance • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Generous vacation policy

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