Senior Director of Cyber Defense Architecture – Engineering

🕒 August 21

🌵 Arizona, New Jersey, +1 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $150k - $235.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Cencora

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Cencora is a company dedicated to improving the health and well-being of both people and animals globally. Built on the legacy of AmerisourceBergen, Cencora offers a wide range of industry-leading solutions that encompass specialty logistics, warehousing, drug research, clinical development support, and more. They provide commercialization and patient access support and offer wholesale and specialty distribution services. Cencora serves a diverse clientele, including pharmaceutical companies, physician practices, pharmacies, and health systems. The company also extends its services to animal health, managing operations and delivering products for animal pharmaceutical care. With a strong global footprint, Cencora aims to reshape healthcare delivery through innovative products and solutions, striving to create healthier futures for all.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy, design, engineering, and continuous improvement of enterprise detection, response, and threat mitigation capabilities • Build or integrate resilient, intelligence-driven, automated cyber defense platforms across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, data, and SaaS environments • Define and execute enterprise cyber defense architecture strategy aligned with the threat landscape and risk appetite • Develop layered defense models and establish detection engineering standards and reference architectures • Collaborate on Zero Trust monitoring and enforcement architecture • Present defense posture maturity, risk trends, and roadmaps to executive leadership • Establish the enterprise detection engineering program and evaluate new tools and technologies • Define logging standards and telemetry requirements • Oversee use case lifecycle management and standardize MITRE ATT&CK mapping • Reduce false positives and increase true positive detection rates • Drive architecture and engineering for SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, email security, deception, threat intelligence, and security analytics platforms • Drive automation, AI/ML integration, and policy-as-code for response workflows • Enable automated containment and remediation capabilities • Partner with Incident Response and Cyber Counter Adversary leadership • Support purple team exercises and breach simulations • Integrate threat intelligence into engineering roadmaps and translate threat actor activity into detection content and control enhancements • Integrate defense controls across public cloud, hybrid data centers, SaaS, enterprise networks, endpoints, mobile, and OT/IoT environments • Support M&A security integrations and divestiture disentanglement • Ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, FDA/GxP, and other applicable regulatory regimes • Establish KPIs, OKRs, performance dashboards, and control validation frameworks • Lead global teams of detection engineers, platform engineers, and automation specialists • Establish engineering career paths and succession planning • Manage enterprise financial planning and follow information security trends to recommend strategic changes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information security, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required • Master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline or equivalent related experience • 12+ years of directly-related or relevant experience • 8+ years in a managerial capacity, preferably in information security • Preferred certifications: CCSP, CISSP, OSCP, GCIA, GCED, GCIH, CISM, CISA, ITIL, and PMP • Knowledge of IT risk management, IT controls, cyber attack mitigation, enterprise IT management, network security, service level maintenance, information security strategy continuity, and threat modelling • Knowledge of security standards including SOX, ISO 27001/27002, COBIT, ITIL, NIST, and PCI • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite • Knowledge of security tools including CSPM, CWPP, CDR, CNAPP, SIEM, EDR, email security gateways, SOAR, firewalls, antivirus, VPN, IDS/IPS, and proxies • Knowledge of security testing tools, threat intelligence tools, and vulnerability testing tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision care • Backup dependent care • Adoption assistance • Infertility coverage • Family building support • Behavioral health solutions • Paid parental leave • Paid caregiver leave • Training programs • Professional development resources • Mentorship programs • Employee resource groups • Volunteer activities • Inclusive culture and wellness resources