Senior Director of Counter Adversary Operations

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full-time

Posted on: 8/15/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $152,500 - $235,180 per year

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About the role

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

12 or more years of directly-related or relevant experience with 8 or more years in a managerial capacity, preferably in information security
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 with IT Risk Management, IT Controls, and Cyber Attack Mitigation; Knowledge of SIEM, EDR, SOAR, Firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability assessments, threat intelligence tools