Cyber Defense Operations Manager

Job Description

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Lead our cyber defense operations team in a high-stakes environment where semiconductor IP and manufacturing processes are under constant threat from some of the world’s most sophisticated adversaries.

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.
  
  

Qualifications

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
  
  

About Us

Why TI?

• Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
• We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
• Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.
  
  

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com .

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.

About The Team

TI does not make recruiting or hiring decisions based on citizenship, immigration status or national origin. However, if TI determines that information access or export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit you from working in this position without first obtaining an export license, TI expressly reserves the right not to seek such a license for you and either offer you a different position that does not require an export license or decline to move forward with your employment.