Vice President, Cyber Threat Center

Dun & Bradstreet

Vice President of Cyber Threat Center overseeing global cyber threat operations at Dun & Bradstreet. Leading proactive defense strategies and incident response initiatives for enterprise security.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AssemblyAWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Shape the Future with Dun & Bradstreet.
At Dun & Bradstreet, we believe data has the power to create a better tomorrow.
The Vice President of Cyber Threat Center (CTC) is a senior leader within D&B’s Global Security & Risk team responsible for leading a global, 24x7 capability that protects the enterprise from cyber threats.
This Vice President of Cyber Threat oversees four integrated pillars, Security Operations & Incident Response (SOC/IR), Detection Engineering & Automation, Threat Intelligence, and Vulnerability & Exposure Management, to drive proactive defense, rapid incident containment, and continuous risk reduction.
The VP will set strategy and vision, establish outcome-based metrics (e.g., MTTD/MTTR, exposure reduction, detection coverage), advance automation and engineering rigor, and partner across Technology, Risk, Legal, and the Business to safeguard the organization at scale.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12–15+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with 7+ years leading large, global teams across two or more of: SOC/IR, Detection Engineering/Automation, CTI, and Vulnerability/Exposure Management.
Proven executive leadership in 24x7 operations, major incident command, and cross-functional crisis management.
Demonstrated success building engineering-centric programs (detection-as-code, CI/CD for detections, telemetry pipelines, SOAR automation) and driving measurable outcomes.
Experience operating at enterprise scale (multi-cloud, hybrid, distributed workforce) and in regulated industries.
Hands-on familiarity with modern stacks and patterns (examples):
SIEM/XDR: Splunk, Chronicle, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne
SOAR/Automation: XSOAR, Tines, Swimlane, custom orchestrations
Threat Intel/TIP: Recorded Future, Anomali, MISP
Vulnerability/Exposure: Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, ASM/CSPM
Cloud & Containers: GCP/AWS/Azure; Kubernetes, GKE/EKS/AKS
Experience with red/purple teaming and detection engineering mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Background managing budgets ($MM), vendor ecosystems, and outcomes-based contracts.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
Education assistance and extensive training resources.
Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
Competitive 401k with company matching.
Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.

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Hard Skills & Tools

cybersecuritysecurity operationsincident responsedetection engineeringautomationthreat intelligencevulnerability managementexposure managementdetection-as-codeCI/CD

Soft Skills

executive leadershipcross-functional crisis managementstrategic visionoutcome-based metricsteam leadershipprogram buildingcommunicationcollaborationincident commandrisk management