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Manager, Cyber Defense Operations

United States, Irving · Job Posted February 19, 2026
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You will be responsible for all aspects of Cyber Defense within 7-Eleven, reporting to the Senior Manager of Information Security Operations. You will have demonstrated ability to lead a team of technical specialists, have extensive multi-vendor experience and exceptional grasp of technical concepts. You are a proactive leader who takes ownership of issues and drives them to resolution. You will oversee a team of subject matter experts (SME) on behalf of 7-Eleven, to ensure the security of all corporate information from all threat vectors, internal and external. You will oversee projects and deployments of security tools to ensure an appropriate security posture, in a timely manner. You will participate in and oversee investigations into security incidents and violations, and will thus be responsible for sensitive information relevant to employees, contractors, vendors, etc. of 7-Eleven. As such, you will be expected to have the ability to pass a detailed background investigation, and maintain impeccable standards of confidentiality, morality, and ethics. You will ensure your team has the tools to produce their own career success and guide them to create that success. You will be challenged in a fast-paced environment and will ensure that your team’s success in handling these challenges will not go unnoticed or unrewarded.

Job Responsibility

  • Incident response (to include triage, playbooks, investigation, write-ups, escalations)
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Forensic analysis
  • Threat Hunting
  • Ingestion of Indicators of Compromise, and distribution to enforcement mechanisms
  • Data loss prevention
  • Email security
  • Security Orchestration and Automation
  • Threat research and creation of compensating controls
  • Act as point of contact for 7-Eleven leadership to advance partnership opportunities between Cyber Defense Operations team and other business areas
  • Create or approve professional development and training plans for your team
  • Prioritize taskings and projects for the team based on importance to accomplishment of business objectives
  • Develop job descriptions, conduct hiring interviews, and develop pipeline of candidates for future inclusion in 7-Eleven’s cyber defense program
  • Oversee or perform the solving of significant and unique issues where analysis of situations and data requires evaluation of intangible factors
  • Lead design and architecture efforts for issues impacting future concepts in cyber defense and advise senior leadership about cyber defense products and technologies
  • Provide guidance to team members in defining cyber defense requirements for current and future state end-to-end architectures and platforms
  • Collaborate with other managers in cross-functional teams to prioritize security risks, provide mitigation or remediation recommendations, and implement compensating controls
  • Oversee or lead cyber defense architecture and third-party intelligence reviews
  • Oversee team in performing cyber defense platform testing, vulnerability remediation, and operating system hardening to reduce attack surface
  • Oversee team in performing proof-of-concept testing for cyber defense solutions under consideration for purchase and implementation
  • Provide Information Security leadership with updates and metrics on effectiveness of cyber defense controls
  • Manage development and maintenance of cyber defense policies, standards, processes and workflows
  • Actively engage the vendor community to identify cyber defense products and technologies
  • Drive and exemplify 7-Eleven Leadership Principles in all you do
  • Partner with the Security Operations Center (SOC) leadership in establishing metrics for performance and ensuring full support for escalation of events from SOC to Cyber Defense Operations team

Requirements

  • Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience
  • 5+ years of management experience
  • Preferred: At least one professional-level vendor-neutral certification in the Information Security arena (CISSP, CISM, GISP, etc.) as well as one vendor certification in the Information Security arena (Palo Alto PCSAE, Splunk Certified Developer, etc.)
  • Bachelors in related field, with Masters preferred, or equivalent experience
  • 12 years of related experience with Bachelor’s, 10 years with Master’s

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