Summary
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A senior cybersecurity leadership position overseeing security operations, threat monitoring, incident response, and the development of proactive defense strategies.
Highlights
Executive security leadership role responsible for global security operations strategy, threat response, and building advanced defense capabilities.
Description
Job DescriptionWe are on the lookout for a Director of Security Operations.
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you will hold full accountability for defining and driving the global strategy for threat detection, security monitoring, threat intelligence, and security incident response across the entire Delivery Hero Group.
In this role based out of our global headquarters in Berlin, you will lead our existing operations organization, composed of dedicated CSIRT and SOC teams, while strategically scaling capabilities where needed to safeguard our worldwide entities, platforms, and millions of daily customers.
As a Director, you will elevate our Security Operations capability to the next level, moving beyond baseline monitoring toward an intelligence-driven, proactive defense posture.
Leveraging cutting-edge technologies like Google SecOps, you will drive modern threat detection engineering, streamline global incident handling workflows, and build resilient response frameworks tailored to the scale and operational complexity of the world’s leading local delivery platform.
You will lead, mentor, and optimize a team of security operations professionals, fostering an environment where technical rigor, continuous learning, and rapid response are paramount.
By establishing strong partnerships with local CISOs and security leadership across our global entities, you will ensure unified monitoring baselines while maintaining fast, effective crisis response.
Your mission:
Lead and Mentor Global Operations: Direct and mentor CSIRT and SOC teams, building a cohesive global operations organization that delivers monitoring and response across all Delivery Hero entities.
Drive Security Operations Maturity: Define the multi-year strategic roadmap for threat detection, incident response, and threat intelligence to systematically reduce organizational risk at a global scale.
Modernize Detection and Response: Optimize our detection pipeline using Google SecOps (SIEM) and advanced telemetry to build high-fidelity detections, minimize noise, and accelerate Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Respond (MTTR).
High-Level Incident Governance: Act as the ultimate escalation point and incident commander for critical, major security incidents, providing clear leadership, stakeholder communication, and post-incident governance.
Threat Intelligence Integration: Establish robust threat intelligence capabilities that translate global threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) into proactive detection engineering and strategic defenses.
Global Entity Alignment: Partner closely with local CISOs and local security leads across all Delivery Hero entities to ensure consistent, scalable security monitoring and incident response standards across all global subsidiaries and platforms.
Operational Metrics and Continuous Improvement: Drive data-informed operational reporting within existing resources, evaluating capabilities using frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to demonstrate measurable risk reduction over time.
