The opportunity
Celonis is the trusted platform to industrialize Enterprise AI. At our core is the Celonis Context Model — which combines process data, business knowledge, and intelligence into a living digital twin of the enterprise that AI can actually understand, turning AI's operational blind spots into operational clarity.
What you'll do
Lead and Scale: Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing global team of cyber defense engineers and security analysts.
Define Standards: Author and maintain enterprise-wide cyber defense frameworks, incident response playbooks, and operational blueprints.
Drive SOC Evolution: Own the strategic architecture, tooling, and day-to-day operations of our modern Security Operations Center (SOC).
Threat Mitigation: Oversee the rapid identification, containment, and remediation of advanced cyber attacks and vulnerabilities.
Tooling Innovation: Evaluate, select, and integrate cutting-edge security technologies, focusing on automation (SOAR), telemetry, and SIEM optimization.
Proactive Defense: Champion threat modeling, breach simulations, and tabletop exercises across Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, and IT.
What they're looking for
- Cultivate Enablement: Partner with internal learning teams to institutionalize security playbooks and upskill teams across the organization.
- Metrics and Accountability: Establish, track, and report on high-impact cyber defense KPIs to provide visibility to executive leadership.
- Agile Execution: Manage the Cyber Defense roadmap within an agile engineering framework to ensure predictable, high-velocity security delivery.
- Threat Combat Experience: A proven track record of successfully mitigating advanced persistent threats (APTs) and sophisticated cyber adversaries.
