Detection & Response Director

Kroger•Blue Ash, OH

12d

About The Position

Offer strategic guidance, vision, leadership, and oversight to advance the operational security functions of the organization, such as incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, insider threat management, fraud prevention, and forensics. Ensure comprehensive enterprise-wide log monitoring to enable proactive detection and response actions. Maintain safeguards across the organization by reducing risk, limiting business disruption, and enhancing resilience to continually evolving cyber and insider threats. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years successful experience as an administrative manager of large technology interdisciplinary teams and complex multi-stakeholder projects within an Infrastructure environment
5 years’ experience in delivering innovative results in previous roles and have strong knowledge of industry trends and industry competition related to security organizations
Proven experience with threat intelligence, SIEM architecture, forensics and security and network engineering.
Demonstrated capability to build, mentor, and maintain an inclusive team-based environment
Effective influencing and negotiating skills when working with all levels of the organization and external vendors
Proven experience leading positive changes, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovative solutions while fostering effective architecture/technology and operational practices culture
Excellent communication skills include the ability to produce strategic documents, present ideas and solutions to non-technical audience and listen effectively to understand user needs
Must have expertise and experience in business case development, product scoping, and project planning with development teams

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering, IT, or related discipline

Responsibilities

Direct the development and execution of proactive and reactive security operations.
Advance detection, automation, and response capabilities across SIEM, SOAR, and related tooling.
Ensure visibility across security tools, logs, and data sources to enable accurate threat detection.
Establish and maintain operational metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement practices.
Partner with CISO, IT and business stakeholders to define metrics and reporting strategies that effectively communicate progress of the security program
Collaborate with senior leadership and business stakeholders to ensure clear alignment and strategic actions are met.
Drive automation and operational efficiency while ensuring processes remain resilient and adaptable.
Oversee high-impact investigations and incident response efforts.
Build, retain, and grow high-performing teams in a competitive cybersecurity talent market.
Cultivate a high-performing, inclusive, and innovative culture with strong focus on accountability and continuous improvement.
Supervise and coach direct reports on the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback on direct reports.
Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.