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Join NVIDIA’s Security Team as Director of our Security Operations Center (SOC), safeguarding the discoveries that power AI, accelerated computing, autonomous machines, and gaming worldwide. As the Director, you will lead the Defense Operations Center team in safeguarding our company’s most critical assets by anticipating, detecting, and neutralizing top threats before they impact the business. Harnessing short Scrum cycles, you’ll drive rapid improvements—from tuning detections to automating playbooks—so every sprint delivers measurable risk reduction. If decisive action, analytical grit, and cross‑functional collaboration excite you, we invite you to craft the future of security at NVIDIA. Resilience emerges where clarity, speed, and trust converge! Ready to convert expertise into agile defenses that keep NVIDIA’s innovations safe?

You lead with confident vitality, turning sophisticated threats into clear, time‑boxed objectives and empowering your team to act. Anchored in Agile values, you favor individuals and interactions, working solutions, and fast feedback—ensuring each sprint delivers customer value without sacrificing real‑time response. Data grounds your decisions, passion energizes partners, and steady support nurtures growth even as you set the standard.

What you’ll be doing:

+ Guide, mentor, and develop SOC analysts, encouraging a high‑performance, inclusive culture.

+ Architect and continuously improve monitoring, detection, and response across on‑prem, hybrid, and multi‑cloud environments and protect GPU‑accelerated AI/ML pipelines.

+ Facilitate planning, stand‑ups, reviews, and retrospectives; maintain a transparent backlog ordered by risk reduction and customer value.

+ Define, track, and act on metrics (MTTD, MTTR, sprint velocity) and operate staffing/on‑call schedules that balance 24 × 7 coverage with follow‑the‑sun hand‑offs.

+ Evaluate and integrate security tooling and automation, sharing threat intelligence and capabilities with the wider NVIDIA security team.

What we need to see:

+ Bachelor’s or higher degree (or equivalent experience), or a related field.

+ 15+ overall years in cybersecurity, including 6+ years managing people and budgets within a SOC or incident‑response function.

+ Deep technical expertise in at least one SOC‑relevant area—cloud security engineering, log analytics, detection engineering, malware analysis, or security automation.

+ Hands‑on experience defending hybrid environments, with workloads, cloud platforms and securing Kubernetes, containers, or GPU‑based AI workloads.

+ Proven success leading teams with Agile/Scrum practices, owning backlog prioritization and sprint metrics in an operational setting.

+ Proficiency in conveying sophisticated security concepts to engineers, executives, and Legal & Compliance partners.

+ Expert knowledge of global cybersecurity regulations, with practical experience embedding these mandates into SOC operations and breach‑notification workflows.

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

+ Calm, decisive leadership during high‑severity incidents—directing teams and containing threats under pressure.

+ Track record of deploying security automation, orchestration, or analytics that measurably reduce false positives or response times.

+ Experience crafting detections and response playbooks for AI/ML pipelines—protecting training data, models, and inference endpoints.

+ Success integrating or migrating SIEM/EDR stacks in hybrid multi‑cloud environments within China, including native CSP log APIs.

+ Recognized builder of team culture—cultivating psychological safety, championing continuous learning, and celebrating wins while holding standards high.

Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 216,000 USD - 345,000 USD.

You will also be eligible for equity and benefits (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/benefits/) .

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until October 11, 2025.

NVIDIA is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.