Cybersecurity Team Lead - Tiger Team (Cybersecurity)

Location: Irving, TX, United States; hybrid work with four days per week in the office.

Company

hirify.global operates a large cybersecurity organization spanning engineering, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, incident response, firewall, governance, risk, architecture, and offensive security.

What you will do

• Lead a team of cybersecurity professionals supporting high-priority efforts, remediation activities, and strategic initiatives.
• Set priorities, assign work, monitor progress, and ensure timely delivery aligned with organizational objectives.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, performance management, and employee development.
• Coordinate cybersecurity, technology, and business stakeholders, remove obstacles, and facilitate issue resolution.
• Track and communicate initiative status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to leadership and stakeholders.
• Review deliverables, analyses, recommendations, documentation, and governance artifacts while contributing to continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, including supervision, delegation, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and employee development.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity governance, risk, compliance, operational security practices, and frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001.
• High-level understanding of technology infrastructure, cybersecurity concepts, security platforms, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead structured initiatives from planning through execution while managing priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, strategic thinking, communication, presentation, stakeholder management, organizational, planning, delegation, and time management skills.
• 5–7 years of experience in large and complex business environments, including direct work with senior-level management, with at least 3 years in one or more relevant cybersecurity, information security, infrastructure, technology, development, governance, risk, compliance, audit, or related security domains.
• High School Diploma or equivalent required.

Nice to have

• 2–3 years of experience securing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience deploying environments with infrastructure as code, including declarative IaC and immutable infrastructure.
• Experience securing container deployments, Kubernetes, managed Kubernetes PaaS services, Agile environments, and DevOps environments.
• Experience managing infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Visio and Microsoft Office products.
• Experience with SSH, serial connections, and the TMSH command-line interface.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development or automation, prompting techniques, and emerging GenAI capabilities and limitations.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-focused cybersecurity environment with leadership visibility and direct reporting lines to the CEO.
• Flexible hybrid work environment with four days per week in the office.
• 401(k) matching, 12 weeks of fully paid bonding leave for new parents, tuition assistance, and training.
• GM employee auto discount, community service pay, and nine company holidays.
• Competitive pay and bonus eligibility; benefits available from day one.
• Culture focused on innovation, integrity, community, belonging, collaboration, and continuous improvement.