Senior Director of Cyber Defense
Entrata· Research and Development – Security
Hybrid (Lehi, Utah)$221.1k - $367kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
The Senior Director, Cyber Defense is responsible for Entrata’s information security defenses, cyber defense strategy, and incident response program. This role leads the capabilities required to detect, investigate, contain, and recover from security events across Entrata’s technology environment.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute Entrata’s cyber defense strategy and multi-year operational roadmap aligned with enterprise risk. Serve as Incident Commander for significant security incidents—coordinating technical response, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and business decisions.
- Lead detection, alerting, and investigation across the technology stack. Create and maintain incident response playbooks, runbooks, severity levels, decision rights, regional time-zone handoffs, and escalation paths.
- Serve as the frontline executive interface for enterprise clients during active incidents, delivering transparent technical briefings, root-cause analyses (RCAs), and post-incident remediation updates. Partner with Legal, Privacy, Communications, and Customer Success on crisis messaging.
- Establish and present strategic cyber metrics, threat assessments, and operational maturity benchmarks to executive leadership, audit committees, and board stakeholders.
- Drive continuous maturity across threat detection and response to align with enterprise compliance frameworks, regulatory standards, and third-party audit requirements while making timely, risk-based decisions in high-stress environments.
- Proactively leverage approved GenAI tools to automate routine tasks while serving as the "Human-in-the-Loop" to audit outputs, maintain prompt competency, and enforce strict data governance and PII protection protocols.
Qualifications
- 10–15 years of progressive, relevant experience in cybersecurity, security operations (SOC), incident response, or cyber defense.
- Proven track record leading enterprise security operations, incident response, or cyber defense programs.
- Expert-level incident command and incident response skills in high-stakes environments.
- Demonstrated experience in direct, customer-facing executive engagement and client briefings during high-severity incidents.
- Demonstrated background building or maturing SOC/IR organizations within enterprise environments subject to rigorous audit, compliance, and governance controls.
- Deep, comprehensive understanding of information security principles, threat vectors, controls, technologies, and operating models.
- Exceptional executive-level communication, crisis management, workload prioritization, and decision-making capabilities under pressure.
Skills
Required:Cyber defense strategyIncident command
Benefits
- Flexible and transparent culture with remote and hybrid work options
- generous vacation time
- frequent company recharge days for work-life balance
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including fertility benefits
- HSA/FSA options and employer-paid disability benefits
- Access to 401(k) or similar retirement plans with employer matching
- Wellness initiatives, onsite gym access, gym memberships, mental health resources, wellness challenges, employee assistance programs
- Entrata Cares programs for volunteerism and charity events
- Exclusive Previ cell phone plan and discounts on services or local business partnerships
- Bi-annual swag drops
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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