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NVIDIA is seeking a CybersecurityManager to join our Cyber Defense & Response (CDR) team. You will lead security operations and incident response initiatives across the organization. This role is ideal for a security leader who confidently addressescriticalsecurityincidents and swiftly makes containment decisions. It includes supporting the team's health, operational processes, and cross-function collaborations that foster a strong, high-performing security function.
Serving as amanager on the Cyber Defense & Response team, you will guide the complete incident response lifecycle. You will ensure operational preparedness ismaintainedto support it. You will convert NVIDIA's engineering-first, technology-focused, data-informed defense strategy into practical plans. You will partner closely with skilled incident responders, security engineers, threat intelligence specialists, and product, platform, and engineering teams to safeguard NVIDIA's corporate, cloud, and product environments.
Whatyou'llbe doing:
Lead day-to-day Cyber Defense & Response (CDR) functions, ensuring operational readiness, execution rigor, and alignment with NVIDIA's cybersecurity strategy.
Responsible for the incident response lifecycle from start to finish. Act as the point person for critical incidents and lead efforts to investigate, contain, recover, and review the incident afterward.
Increase detection and response efficiency by continuously broadening coverage across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, targeting GPU-accelerated and AI/ML workloads.
Set detection expectations and standards aligned to NVIDIA's threat landscape, defining monitoring requirements, coverage goals, and compliance requirements.
Own operational performance and outcomes, including MTTD, MTTC, MTTR, detection coverage, alert quality, and false-positive reduction-focused on root-cause improvement.
RunCDRimprovementsfollowing agile methods, keeping a risk-prioritized backlog and guiding delivery via planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Drive agentic transformation of manual SOC work - identify repetitive analyst tasks and convert them into automated, event-based AI pipelines.
Partner with Security Engineering to operationalize tooling, automation, playbooks, and post-incident improvementsthatmeasurablyimproveresponse efficiency.
What we need to see:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Scienceor related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ overall years of experience in cybersecurity, including 3+ yearsmanaging people within a SOC or incident response function.
Strong technical depth to step into an active incident independently - reading SIEM queries, evaluating automation workflows,investigatingalerts, and assessing case qualitywithdeepexpertisein SOC-relevant domains (digital forensics & incident response, cloud security, detection engineering, log analysis, malware analysis, or security automation).
Strong knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP, and other CSPs), identity and accessmanagement, endpoint protection, and securing containerized or GPU-based AI/ML workloads.
Demonstrated experience owning operational metrics and driving measurableimprovements.
Experience building or improving incident response processes, playbooks, and critical issue workflows.
Proven ability to lead global, 24x7 teams across distributed shift structures using agile practices, with ownership of backlog prioritization and sprint metrics.
Ability to convey complex security concepts clearly to engineers, executives, and legal and compliance partners.
Ways to stand out from the crowd:
Calm, decisive leadership during high-severity incidents - leading teams, making containment calls under pressure, and presenting clearly across technical and executive stakeholders.
Track recorddeploying security automation, orchestration, analytics, andAIagentic SOC workflowsthat measurablyreducemanual workload,false positives, analyst toil,andresponse times.
Experience developing detections and response playbooks for AI/ML systems, coordinating with product orsupply‑chainsecurity teams, and integrating or migrating SIEM/EDR across hybridmulti‑cloudenvironments, including CSP log sources, MDR partners, andco‑manageddetection and response models.
Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCFR, CISSP, or AWS/Azure/Google Security.
Recognized builder of team culture - cultivating psychological safety, fostering continuous learning, and celebrating wins while holding standards high.
NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!
NVIDIA’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, NVIDIA is increasingly known as "the AI computing company.
Job ID: 147066941