Director - Cyber Security

Director - Cyber Security

Job Description Summary

The Director – Cyber Security is accountable for providing strategic leadership for the GE Aerospace Cybersecurity Response Team (GCRT). This role is responsible for leading a global team of cybersecurity SOC analysts and incident responders to triage alerts and notables, detect and analyze potential cybersecurity threats, and contain and remediate cybersecurity incidents.

Job Description Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, the Director – Cyber Security leading the Global Cybersecurity Response Team (GCRT) will:

• Define and execute the global SOC and incident response strategy, aligned to enterprise risk, regulatory requirements, and business priorities to identify and mitigate cybersecurity threats
• Lead 24x7 SOC operations across regions, ensuring consistent detection, triage, containment, and recovery processes with clear escalation paths
• Design and develop incident response capabilities to increase effectiveness, integrating across architecture, detection engineering, SIEM, SOAR, endpoint, network, cloud, identity, email, OTN, and other platforms
• Lead major incident response efforts with some nontraditional working hours including technical actions to contain and remediate cybersecurity incidents and complete forensic investigations
• Operate a hybrid SOC model with clear roles and responsibilities while managing performance oversight and accountability of strategic MDR partners and incident response service providers
• Benchmark program capabilities against industry standards and peer organizations and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards for data protection and cybersecurity
• Stay informed with the latest trends and technologies in cybersecurity to continuously enhance the organization's defenses
• Recruit, develop, and retain global talent, offering feedback and growth opportunities; establish on-call rotations, training, certifications, and career paths to strengthen team capability
• Manage team deliverables, setting goals and priorities throughout the year, and manage budgets related to scope of team
• Communicate effectively both within immediate team and GE leadership. Ensure team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results

Education Qualification:

Ba