Envista Security Operations & Engineering Lead (Brea, CA)

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JOB SUMMARY

This position is based on‑site and requires four days per week in the Brea office to support collaboration and business needs.

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Security Operations and Engineering Lead to drive enterprise cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, incident response, and security platform capabilities.

This leader owns the SOC, incident response program, detection lifecycle, and security tooling ecosystem, and is responsible for building scalable, threat-informed, and measurable security operations.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Security Operations Leadership

• Lead enterprise security operations including monitoring, triage, investigation, escalation, and response

• Oversee SOC and MSSP/MDR partnerships including SLAs, alert quality, escalation paths, and performance metrics

• Establish 24x7 monitoring aligned to enterprise risk

• Define KPIs/KRIs including MTTD, MTTR, alert fidelity, detection coverage, and response effectiveness

Security Engineering & Platform Management

• Lead lifecycle management of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, CSPM, DLP, identity security, and cloud security platforms

• Drive automation across triage, enrichment, containment, and reporting workflows

• Define enterprise logging and telemetry strategy including onboarding, parsing, normalization, retention, and coverage standards

• Ensure tools are integrated, cost-effective, and aligned to risk priorities

Incident Response & Threat Management

• Own incident response program including playbooks, exercises, breach workflows, and communications

• Lead major incidents through containment, eradication, recovery, and root cause analysis

• Ensure post-incident reviews drive durable control improvements

• Coordinate with Legal, Privacy, HR, IT, and Communications

Detection Engineering & Monitoring

• Build detection engineering lifecycle: hypothesis development testing tuning deployment validation retirement

• Develop behavior-based and threat-informed detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK

• Expand monitoring across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, network, and critical applications

• Identify and close detection gaps via red team, pentest, and vulnerability insights

Exposure & Control Operations

• Support exposure management, asset inventory visibility, and attack surface monitoring

• Drive continuous control monitoring and validation of key security controls

• Improve vulnerability remediation workflows and risk reduction outcomes

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Build and lead high-performing security operations and engineering teams

• Establish clear roles, operating model, and accountability

• Provide executive reporting on threats, incidents, control gaps, and maturity

• Partner with GRC, Audit, IT, Architecture, and business leadership

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