Director, Secure Operations & Enablement

Position Overview

Siemens Software (DI SW) is looking for a highly skilled and experienced leader reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The Director of Secure Operations & Enablement will play a critical leadership role in driving efficiencies and automation in the threat detection process. The role will focus on Cybersecurity in the “Real Time”, defined as decreasing the time between the start of a security incident and the time of containing an incident.

The Director of Secure Operations & Enablement will be responsible for driving and executing on industry best practices for enabling threat detection and decreasing the time between the start of a security incident and the time of containing a security incident. This leadership role will provide strategic leadership in collaboration with multiple cybersecurity operations teams directly supporting security incident response. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate security risks related to threat detection, evaluation of innovative cybersecurity tooling, and automating security investigation functions supporting cyber defense, development operations, site reliability engineering and product teams.

• Provide strong cybersecurity leadership while driving the threat detection secure enablement strategy across Siemens Software.
• Establishing aggressive goals and measuring success including time to detect, respond, contain and recover. Currently limited by Siemens Global mandated tooling.
• Multi-tenant cybersecurity improvements specifically to:
• Improve network security including configuration and monitoring. Isolate the platform network.
• Access management
• Data protection to prevent data spillage
• Securing the Control Plane – The control plane is the brain of our Software as a Service platform.
• Auth 2.0 and Admin Console hardening
• Automated incident response and forensics
• We need best-in-class ways to analyze the data so we can correlate events and find the source of the issue faster.
• We need to be able to track every network connection to or from a specific process, even if the connection is not successful.
• We need to bake File Integrity Monitoring checks into our image scanning policy.

• Driving the enablement and automation strategy across a large global matrixed organization for product security and solutions across a diverse range of products and services.
• Aligning with Siemens global objectives including processes and procedures related to cyber defense and cyber infrastructure.
• Navigating global regulatory and compliance requirements while maintaining business strategic goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Proven experience in cyber defense, security operations, threat detection and automation.
• Experienced in secure cloud delivery, automation and innovation
• Experience with Cybersecurity Regulatory standards including Executive Order 14028, EU CRA, NIS 2.0, etc.
• Strong understanding of security principles, practices, and technologies.
• Experience with security assessment tools and methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH) are a plus.