Summary:
Location: Mexico City, Mexico; #LI-HYBRID 12 days/month in office
- Internal job title: Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Threat Detection & Response
- The Associate Director of Threat Detection and Response is a senior individual contributor within the Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), responsible for leading high-impact incident response activities and driving continuous optimization of CSOC capabilities, processes, and detection effectiveness. This role serves as a senior technical expert and strategic operator, helping the organization rapidly identify, investigate, contain, and remediate cyber threats while improving the overall maturity and performance of security operations.
- This position is adecuado for a hands-on security leader who combines strong incident response expertise with the ability to identify operational gaps, improve workflows, strengthen detection and response capabilities, and influence teams across the broader security organization.

About the Role:
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate incident response activities, including triage, scoping, containment,



eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for high-severity security incidents and provide expert guidance during active response efforts.
- Drive CSOC optimization initiatives focused on improving incident handling, analyst effectiveness, operational consistency, and overall response speed and quality.
- Identify opportunities to enhance detection coverage, reduce alert fatigue, improve investigation fidelity, and streamline response processes.
- Partner with threat hunting, detection engineering, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and other cyber teams to improve CSOC outcomes.
- Develop and refine incident response playbooks, standard operating procedures, and investigation guidance.
- Perform deep technical analysis of attacker behavior, tactics, techniques, and procedures to support effective response and lessons learned.
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📌 Associate Director Threat Detection (Baja California Sur)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Baja California Sur