Director Security Operations

Location: Sparks, NV

Are you looking to advance your career and flex your leadership and security skills in a fast-paced and rewarding organization? Join us! As the Director of Security, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the organization's comprehensive security program, which includes information security, industrial security, special programs management, crisis management, and investigations. You will ensure the effective implementation of security policies, standards, and procedures across domestic and international operations.

This role involves partnering with various business units to enhance and align security solutions with organizational goals while identifying and planning for emerging security threats.

***TA - Use this instead if Director Program Security business title***

As the Director of Program Security, you will lead the overall security strategy for your Business Area's activities under the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) and Intelligence Community (IC), including collateral, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), and Special Access Program (SAP) activities. You will be responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of Business Area security initiatives, ensuring compliance with all regulations, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

This role requires strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to support classified business development, manage security budgets, and facilitate compliant mission success. This role requires active participation in professional security organizations to represent the company and monitor emerging requirements.

***TA - Use this instead if Director Corporate Program Security business title***

As the Director of Corporate Program Security, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the implementation and continuous improvement of corporate-wide physical security tools and procedures. This includes managing physical security systems such as access control, alarm systems, and CCTV, as well as associated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)-related compliance activities. You will ensure data integrity, coordinate cross-application interfaces, and align security policies with enterprise-wide procedures.

***TA - Use this instead if Director Business Systems Cybersecurity business title***

As the Director of Business Systems Cybersecurity, you will lead and manage all cybersecurity activities for business areas (BA) supporting current and future contracts. You will be responsible for corporate-wide cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring compliance with industry standards such as Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), and implementing best practices. This role involves strategic planning, fostering continuous improvement, managing security budgets, and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

***TA - Use this instead if Director Security and Safety Data Integration Strategies business title***

As the Director of Security and Safety Data Integration Strategies, you will lead the business area data integration activities to support current and future contracts, and oversee the Security Operations Center (SOC) and its personnel. This role involves implementing Blue Team defense concepts, managing endpoint defense, improving operational processes, analyzing network traffic, and ensuring SOC management systems are effective. You will strategically plan and execute data analysis and integration initiatives, fostering continuous improvement, and maintaining compliance with all regulations.

As SNC's corporate team, we provide the company and its business areas with strategic direction and business support spanning executive management, finance and accounting, operations, human resources, legal, IT, information security, facilities, marketing, and communications.

Responsibilities

SOC Leadership & Operational Excellence

Oversee 24x7x365 multi-tier SOC operations, establishing operational cadence, shift handovers, escalation paths, and service level agreements (SLAs/SLOs).

Direct response strategies for critical incidents, serving as the senior escalation point and incident commander during active threats, breaches, and outages.

Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs), playbooks, and runbooks aligned with industry frameworks (MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge [ATT&CK], MITRE Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems [ATLAS], National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework [NIST CSF], ISO 27001).

Maintain high analyst performance and operational rigor while mitigating alert fatigue and burnout.

Advance proactive threat hunting and active defense initiatives.

Manage SOC Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and reporting.

Cloud Security Engineering & AI Modernization

• Lead the security engineering team charged with building, deploying, and maintaining cloud-native detection, response, and monitoring pipelines (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Champion the adoption of modern technologies, including machine learning models, predictive threat analytics, and autonomous AI agents to drive automated triage, alert enrichment, and remediation.
• Oversee SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native security platforms, continuously refining detection engineering, rule tuning, and pipeline efficiency.

Customer Engagement & Executive Communication

• Act as the senior operational liaison for key client stakeholders, enterprise leadership, and regulatory bodies.
• Lead high-stakes client briefings during major security incidents, presenting root-cause analyses, containment actions, and remediation paths with composure.
• Partner with Product, Customer Success, and Sales engineering teams to align SOC capabilities with client expectations and evolving service offerings.

Cyber Threat Intelligence & Reporting

• Oversee the production of actionable cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and operational reporting.
• Author and review detailed cyber activity reports, executive dashboards, and threat advisories for both technical teams and C-suite/external customer leadership.
• Translate complex telemetry, adversarial tactics, and forensic finding.