Director, Security Operations & SOC Leader

MACOM (NASDAQ: MTSI) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of advanced semiconductor products across a diverse range of end markets including Data Centers Telecommunications Industrial and Aerospace and Defense. We develop innovative cutting-edge technologies and products across the spectrum of radio frequency (RF) microwave millimeter wave photonics and high-speed analog technologies. Our solutions support critical network infrastructure applications like artificial intelligence high performance computing satellite communications radar unmanned aerial vehicles medical equipment test and measurement and advanced wireless networks.

MACOM has more than 75 years of expertise in semiconductor process development wafer fabrication circuit design advanced packaging systems architecture and applications engineering. We are committed to our customers success. We partner with customers to help solve their most challenging problems by providing semiconductor solutions that are at the forefront of the highest power highest frequency and/or highest data rates.

Leading technologies innovative products and driven employees. Come be a part of MACOM and help advance the next generation of connectivity infrastructure!

We are hiring a Director of Security Operations to own and mature MACOMs detection response and security operations program. This is a player-coach role: you will lead and develop a team of security engineers and SOC analysts while remaining hands-on in detection engineering incident response and technical security work. You will own MACOMs security operations stack end-to-end run our hybrid SOC (a 24/7 managed detection partner plus an internal analyst team) and serve as the operational backbone of our incident response and insider-risk programs.

You will operate in a regulated defense-adjacent environment - CMMC ITAR/EAR SOX SEC cyber-disclosure and an OT/ICS manufacturing footprint - where the quality of detection and response has direct compliance and disclosure consequence.

Key Responsibilities

Security operations & tooling

• Own operate and report on the security operations stack - endpoint detection and response (EDR) email security removable-media/USB encryption DLP/insider-risk tooling and related controls - including configuration health coverage and lifecycle.
• Own budget and vendor management for the security operations tool portfolio.

Detection & SOC management

• Run the hybrid SOC: govern the 24/7 managed detection (MDR/co-managed) relationship - SLAs escalation quality and coverage accountability - while leading the internal analyst team.
• Own detection engineering and content management: use-case development tuning detection-as-code telemetry/log-source onboarding and MITRE ATT&CK coverage mapping.
• Lead threat hunting and operationalize threat intelligence into detections and hunts.
• Drive security automation and orchestration (SOAR) and develop response runbooks and playbooks.
• Own security monitoring of OT/ICS telemetry across the manufacturing environment partnering with OT/engineering teams on coverage and response.

Incident response & preparedness

• Own incident preparedness and response: IR plan and playbook maintenance DFIR retainer management and post-incident reviews.
• Run tabletop and purple-team exercises to validate detection and response readiness.
• Serve as the operational front end of the executive incident-disclosure process providing timely accurate technical input to support materiality determinations under SEC cyber-disclosure rules.

Insider risk investigations & legal partnership

• Partner with Legal on insider-threat investigations legal holds and evidence preservation.
• Operate insider-risk and DLP monitoring in coordination with Legal and HR.

Awareness & technical reviews

• Own the phishing simulation and security-awareness training program with metrics focused on reporting and resilience.
• Serve as the primary lead for technical security reviews of systems integrations and changes.

Product Security

• Build foundational product security capability within the security operations team as MACOM expands its software and firmware-enabled product portfolio - partnering with product and firmware engineering on secure development practices embedded/firmware vulnerability awareness and coordinated vulnerability handling.
• Develop the teams depth in software and firmware security over time serving as the security operations interface for product security matters.

M&A Due Diligence

• Support cybersecurity due diligence for mergers acquisitions and divestitures - evaluating target security posture control maturity and inherited risk and informing integration planning and Day-1 security requirements in coordination with Corporate Development Legal and GRC.

Compliance & reporting

• Operate and evidence security-operations controls supporting CMMC / NIST 800-171 and SOX ITGC in partnership with GRC.
• Produce and report security operations metrics (e.g. MTTD/MTTR detection coverage response quality) for leadership and the board.
• Partner with the vulnerability management owner on exploitation validation and risk-based prioritization.

Balancing risk with business requirements

• Exercise risk-based judgment to balance security requirements against business and operational priorities - enabling the business to move at speed while ensuring material risks are surfaced owned and consciously accepted at the appropriate level.

Leadership

• Lead mentor and develop a team of security engineers and SOC analysts; set clear expectations build career paths and raise the technical bar.

What You Bring

• 8 years in security operations detection/response or a closely related security engineering discipline including 2 years leading and developing technical security teams.
• Demonstrated hands-on depth in detection engineering and incident response - this role leads by doing not only by directing.
• Experience operating core security operations tooling (EDR SIEM email security DLP) and managing a SIEM/detection content lifecycle.
• Experience managing a managed-detection or co-managed SOC relationship and holding a partner accountable to outcomes.
• Proven incident response leadership across the full lifecycle including coordination with legal executive and external (DFIR/IR retainer) stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of detection frameworks and methodologies (e.g. MITRE ATT&CK).
• Excellent written and verbal communication including the ability to translate technical risk for executive and board audiences.

Preferred

• Experience in a regulated environment - defense contractor (CMMC / NIST 800-171) ITAR/EAR SOX or critical infrastructure.
• Exposure to OT/ICS security (IEC 62443) in a manufacturing setting.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP GCIA GCIH GCFA or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender XDR Azure / Azure Government and cloud workload monitoring.

Leadership attributes

• A genuine player-coach: invested in growing people and willing to dig into the technical work alongside the team.
• Sound judgment under pressure and a calm structured approach to incidents.
• Collaborative across IT Legal GRC and OT/engineering peers.

EEO:

MACOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse workforce. MACOM will not discriminate against any worker or job applicant on the basis of race color religion sex gender identity sexual orientation national origin age disability genetic information veteran status military service marital status or any other category protected under applicable law.

Reasonable Accommodation:

MACOM is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you have a disability and are in need of a reasonable accommodation with respect to any part of the application process please call 1- or email Provide your name phone number and the position title and location in which you are interested and nature of accommodation needed and we will get back to you. We also work with current employees who request or need reasonable accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of their jobs.

ITAR

Due to ITAR regulations only candidates who are U.S. Persons (U.S. citizens U.S. nationals lawful permanent residents or individuals granted asylum or refugee status) will be considered for this position.

Salary Range

TheSalary Rangefor this position is$168000 $ salary offered tocandidatewill depend on several factors including but not limited to work location relevant candidates experience education and specific knowledge skills and abilities.

Benefits: This position offers a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:

• Health dental and vision insurance.
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) plan.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.

Required Experience:

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