Director, Security

Full time @OpenText in Information Technology (IT)
  • 275 Frank Tompa Drive, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 0A1 View on Map
  • Post Date : April 17, 2025
  • Apply Before : May 1, 2025
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Job Detail

  • Job ID 11198
  • Experience  2 Years
  • Qualifications  Degree Bachelor
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Job Description

Global Information Security (GIS) leverages our people, processes and technology to develop new digitalization efforts that ensure our enterprise systems’ reliability, minimize staff interaction, and most importantly, protect our customers’ data. Companies are recognizing the need to digitize information and manage alternative work scenarios in today’s changing reality. With this in mind, we work tirelessly to drive improvements across our security services and accelerate our customers’ digital journey in a safe and trusted environment.

Security Operations is the team that handles day to day protection of our environment and the tools that support them. This team takes care of identifying security weaknesses and facilitates remediation efforts. Additionally, this team monitors networks to assesses abnormal behaviors and manages security incidents to allow for execution of response processes.

Your Impact:
A Security Operations Management role at OpenText is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to impact lives. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Security Operations, you will lead OpenText’s global SOC operations, overseeing the strategic direction, operational excellence, and continuous evolution of our security monitoring and response capabilities. You will be responsible for managing advanced security operations, threat detection, incident response, and cyber resilience programs.

This role demands strong leadership, deep technical expertise, and strategic vision to scale SOC capabilities, integrate emerging security technologies, and proactively defend OpenText against evolving cyber threats. Collaborate with cross-functional teams is integral, including IT, compliance, engineering, and executive leadership, to align security initiatives with business objectives.

What the role offers:As a Director, Security Operations you will:
Define& Execute SOC Strategy: Drive AI-driven threat detection, automation, and cloud security integration.
Lead 24/7 Security Operations: Ensure rapid detection, containment, and resolution of cybersecurity incidents.
Enhance Threat Intelligence: Integrate global threat feeds, proactive threat hunting, and advanced detection techniques.
Optimize SOC Tooling: Manage SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and XDR, aligning with security engineering and DevSecOps workflows.
Ensure Compliance& Governance: Align with ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPAA, NIST CSF, and support audits.
Build& Lead a Global Team: Develop a high-performing SOC team with continuous training and incident response drills.
Lead the integration of AI and machine learning technologies into security operations to enhance threat detection capabilities and automate routine security monitoring tasks.
Support strategic roadmaps for implementing AI-powered security solutions across the organization’s threat hunting and incident response workflows.

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