Senior Director of Counter Adversary Operations

Summary:

Cencora is seeking a technically exceptional and operationally experienced Senior Director of Counter Adversary Operations to lead a multidisciplinary program focused on proactively identifying, tracking, and disrupting adversary activity targeting our global enterprise.

This role will oversee threat intelligence, red team operations, threat hunting, and cyber countermeasures, ensuring intelligence is not only collected but acted upon. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise, creativity, and leadership to unite teams against advanced threat actors.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee global threat intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination, ensuring actionable intelligence is integrated in Cencora's detection and defense strategy.

• Direct relationships with intelligence vendors, government partners, and ISACs.

• Lead red team operations to emulate advanced threat actor tradecraft, test defenses, and identify control gaps.

• Oversee purple team engagements to improve SOC and IR capabilities through collaborative testing.

• Direct proactive hunts across our global environment using threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and hypothesis-driven methodologies.

• Develop and deploy targeted cyber countermeasures to proactively block or disrupt adversary operations.

• Build and maintain detailed profiles of priority threat actors, tracking campaigns over time and aligning defenses to evolving TTPs

• Sets goals/KPIs, creates budget and manages the overall performance of the CAO team

Education:

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

Preferred Certifications:

• GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) certification

• OSCP - Offensive Security Certified Professional

• GCIH (GIAC - Certified Incident Handler)

• GREM (GIAC - Reverse Engineering Malware)

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Certification in Information Security Strategy Management (CISM)

Experience:

• 12 or more years of directly-related or relevant experience with 8 or more years in a managerial capacity, preferably in information security.

Behavioral Skills:

• Coaching and Mentoring

• Creativity & Innovation

• Decision Making

• Leadership Skills

• People Management

• Planning

• Risk-taking

Technical Skills:

• IT Risk Management

• IT Controls

• Cyber Attack Mitigation

• Enterprise IT Management

• Network Security

• Service Level Maintenance

• Information Security Strategy Continuity

• Threat Modelling

• Information Security Strategy Standards (SOX, ISO 27001/27002, COBIT, ITIL, NIST, PCI)

Tools Knowledge:

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Security Tools - SIEM, EDR, Email Security Gateway, SOAR, Firewall, Anti-virus, Firewalls, VPN IDS/IPS, AV, proxies, etc.

• Security Testing Tools - Open Source and COTS security tools

• Threat Intelligence Tools

• Vulnerability Testing Tools

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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