Director, Security Operations (Security Engineering)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid model with attendance at the Berlin campus two days per week

Company

hirify.global operates a global local delivery platform across approximately 65 countries, with headquarters in Berlin and a large technology organization.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor global CSIRT and SOC teams responsible for monitoring and incident response across hirify.global entities.
• Define and execute the multi-year strategy for threat detection, incident response, and threat intelligence.
• Modernize the detection pipeline with Google SecOps, advanced telemetry, high-fidelity detections, and automated response playbooks.
• Act as incident commander and ultimate escalation point for critical security incidents.
• Translate threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures into proactive detection engineering and strategic defenses.
• Establish operational metrics, including MTTD, MTTR, and MITRE ATT&CK detection coverage, to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Proven leadership of SOC and CSIRT or incident response functions in large-scale enterprise or technology environments.
• Extensive experience managing complex security incidents and building proactive threat hunting programs.
• Hands-on familiarity with cloud-native SIEM and SecOps platforms, telemetry ingestion, detection-as-code, and SOAR playbooks.
• Strong executive communication, crisis management, stakeholder management, and team mentorship skills.
• Experience managing global follow-the-sun or escalation models and measuring security operations performance.
• Ability to balance urgent incident response with long-term strategic capability development.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google SecOps or Chronicle.
• Experience in large-scale platforms, food or logistics delivery networks, or multi-tenant cloud ecosystems.
• CISSP, CISM, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, or comparable security operations certification.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments, including AWS and GCP.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with face-to-face collaboration at the Berlin campus two days per week.
• 27 days of annual leave, with an additional day in the second and third years of service.
• Health checkups, meditation, yoga, gym access, life and accident insurance, and a corporate pension plan.
• Employee share purchase plan, sabbatical bank, public transport discounts, and meal or food vouchers.
• €1,000 annual education budget, language courses, and parental support.