Texas Instruments Cyber Defense Operations Manager 

United States, Texas, Dallas 

232215662

As the Cyber Defense Operations Director, you'll drive operational excellence across our security teams while building a resilient security culture that supports our operations. This is a hands-on leadership role embedded in a fast-paced environment where operational excellence, cross-functional collaboration, and technical decisive action are essential. You'll be the linchpin connecting our frontline defense capabilities to executive leadership, translating complex security challenges into business impact and strategic direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end execution and continuous improvement of key cyber defense operation capabilities.
• Drive operational excellence through KPIs, metrics, post-mortems, and maturity roadmaps of incident response, data loss prevention, and vulnerability management.
• Lead incident response for high-severity cyber and data loss events, ensuring containment, eradication, and recovery with clear executive communication.
• Cross-functional leadership – partner with Security Engineering, GRC, Legal, IT teams, and business teams to ensure seamless coordination during security events, remediation, and proactive hardening.
• Own and evolve operational runbooks, escalation protocols, and team training.
• Drive innovative detection engineering to stay current with emerging adversary techniques, tactics and procedures as well as insider threats.
• Lead the teams and grow the skillsets through strategic penetration testing exercises, threat hunting and purple teaming.
• Operational efficiency and ticket reduction through automation, orchestration and prevention controls.
• Proactive identification of opportunities to expand security monitoring and threat intelligence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related degree program
• 5+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity and has held a cybersecurity leadership role, managing security operations or incident response teams.
• Demonstrated experience building or maturing a SOC or security operations function, preferably in manufacturing, high-tech, or similar critical infrastructure sectors.
• Deep technical understanding of detection and response technologies, SIEM platforms, EDR, and security orchestration tools.
• Cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, OSCP, GCTI, or comparable)
• Proven track record managing security teams through high-pressure incidents with significant business impact.
• Excellent communication skills — able to distill technical complexity into executive-level updates.

Preferred Qualifications & Technical Expertise

• Exposure to global operations and working across time zones or cultural boundaries.
• Experience managing security incidents involving sophisticated threat actors, including nation-state campaigns
• Background in managing security operations for organizations with significant intellectual property or trade secrets
• Experience managing vendor relationships.
• Technical proficiency in domains relate to cyber operations such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, SEG, WAF, vuln mgmt. technologies, threat intelligence, etc.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and practices
• Familiarity with Risk Based Alerting