Senior Director, Cyber Security Center

Company Description

About CyberArk:
CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on X, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Job Description

As the Senior Director of Cyber Security Center at CyberArk, you will lead the frontline of our cyber defense strategy. You will build, manage, and continuously enhance a world-class capability that includes our Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Hunting, and Threat Intelligence teams.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring real-time threat monitoring, proactive hunting, and deep analysis of adversarial activity — all while leveraging AI and automation to accelerate detection, decision-making, and response. You will drive the integration of AI/ML models and threat intelligence into SOC workflows, helping your teams stay ahead of evolving threats and reduce noise through intelligent alerting and prioritization.

You’ll define the vision and operational model for modern, threat-informed defense, lead response to high-impact incidents, and collaborate across cyber protection, risk, and technology teams. You’ll support the CISO providing insight into threat trends, AI-driven insights, and the overall health of CyberArk’s cyber defense posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mature CyberArk’s global Cyber Security Center, including 24/7 Security Operations, Threat Hunting, and Threat Intelligence functions.
• Establish strategic direction and operational excellence across detection, response, and threat analysis programs.
• Oversee incident response efforts, ensuring coordinated investigation, containment, and remediation of security events.
• Build and scale proactive threat hunting programs, using hypothesis-driven methods, advanced analytics, and threat behavior models.
• Operationalize threat intelligence to improve detection coverage, prioritize threats, and anticipate adversary behavior.
• Own the integration and optimization of detection technologies, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Define and track operational metrics, such as mean time to detect (MTTD), mean time to respond (MTTR), false positive rates, and threat coverage.
• Foster strong partnerships across Cyber Protection, IT, Engineering, and Risk teams, enabling coordinated defenses and incident handling.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of security analysts, hunters, and intelligence professionals.
• Stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, continuously evaluating new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies.

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Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity operations, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven experience managing SOC, threat hunting, and/or threat intelligence functions at scale.
• Deep understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and how to defend against them.
• Strong technical expertise in modern detection and response tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, threat intel platforms).
• Experience building and maintaining global, 24/7 security operations capabilities.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and executive reporting skills.
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as MITRE ATT\&CK, NIST, etc.