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Lead global cyber defense & triage as MUFG's Global Director – shape autonomous defense, AI‑driven response, and multi‑domain security.
Hybrid role in Tempe, AZ – 4 onsite days, 1 remote; oversee 24/7 ops, budget, AI/ML initiatives, and fortified threat hunting.
Overview
Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long‑term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.
With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.
Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.
The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.
The Global Director of Autonomous Cyber Defense and Security Event Triage leads the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of a 24/7 global cyber defense and security event triage function. This role is accountable for globally protecting enterprise assets and services by driving outcomes across detection engineering, automated response, incident triage, and threat hunting. The director oversees global cyber operations performance, operating rhythms, and service delivery across multiple environments and partners, while owning budget planning and financial stewardship for the function. Additionally, the role advances autonomous defense capabilities by applying AI/ML and LLM‑enabled workflows to improve alert quality, reduce time to detect/respond, and standardize decisioning, documentation, and remediation at scale. The director also ensures continuous validation of controls and detections through purple team execution aligned to adversary behaviors.
Major Responsibilities
Direct and mature a 24/7 global cyber operations model for security event monitoring, triage, incident response partnership, and threat hunting across multiple environments
Own functional strategy, multi-year roadmap, and KPI/OKR outcomes for autonomous cyber defense and security event triage (e.g., MTTD/MTTR, false‑positive reduction, containment SLAs)
Work with the Global Head to define the vision for Autonomous Cyber Defense and Security Event Triage, and execute against that vision in alignment with the strategic design
Oversee budget planning, vendor management, and financial governance for global cyber operations tooling, services, and staffing; optimize spend to risk reduction and service performance
Lead, mentor, and scale high‑performing global teams (employees and partners); define operating rhythms, coverage models, escalation paths, and on‑call expectations
Serve as a lead escalation contact in a 24/7 environment; guide appropriate resources to resolution
Provide executive‑level oversight for audit, risk, and regulatory engagements related to cyber operations; ensure processes, evidence, and metrics meet policy and compliance requirements
Deliver leadership reporting on cyber operations health, emerging threats, and risk posture; translate technical findings into business impact and prioritized actions
Drive AI/ML/LLM‑enabled autonomous defense initiatives, including alert enrichment, case summarization, analyst co‑pilots, automated containment, and continuous learning to improve signal‑to‑noise
Establish governance for detection engineering, triage decisioning, playbooks, and automation (SOAR/EDR/SIEM) to standardize response, reduce gaps, and improve response times
Lead critical incident triage and escalation governance; partner with incident response, infrastructure, identity, and application teams to coordinate containment and recovery
Oversee monitoring of third‑party security service providers and managed tooling to ensure coverage, quality, and alignment to enterprise standards and SLAs
Build an operations analytics program to measure and continuously improve triage accuracy, response efficiency, backlog health, and automation effectiveness across regions and shifts
Sponsor and execute a purple team program (red/blue collaboration) to validate detections and response through adversary emulation aligned to MITRE ATT&CK; track gaps to closure
Oversee proactive threat hunting and continuous control validation to identify adversary behaviors, reduce dwell time, and harden critical services
Provide global operational leadership during cyber events by coordinating communications, handoffs, and technical execution across regions, functions, and time zones
Integrate threat intelligence, vulnerability insights, and attacker TTP research into detection logic, triage guidance, and autonomous response workflows
Produce and govern recurring and ad‑hoc reporting on threats, trends, and program performance; ensure consistent narratives and decision support for stakeholders
Champion innovation and modernization of cyber defense tooling and techniques, including evaluation and adoption of new capabilities that measurably reduce risk
Partner with technology, product, and business leaders to align cyber operations priorities, drive remediation ownership, and embed security‑by‑design practices
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or related discipline or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience working in the Cybersecurity Operations or Information Security
Relevant technical and industry certifications, such as CISSP, ISSMP, GCIA, CISM, CEH, GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, or GSEC are preferred
Experience in one or more security domains including Security Governance and Oversight, Security Risk Management, Network Security, Threat and Vulnerability Management, or Incident Response and Forensics preferred
Experience with information security risk management, including information security audits, reviews, and risk assessments
Desired Skills
Experience with security data collection, analysis and correlation
Well‑developed analytic, qualitative, and quantitative reasoning skills
Demonstrated creative problem‑solving abilities
Security event monitoring, investigation, and overall incident response process
Strong time management skills to balance multiple activities and lead junior analysts as needed
Understanding of offensive security to include common attack methods
Understanding of how to pivot across multiple datasets to correlate artifacts for a single security event
A diverse skill base in both product security and information security including organizational structure and administration practices, system development and maintenance procedures, system software and hardware security controls, access controls, computer operations, physical and environmental controls, and backup and recovery procedures.
Detailed knowledge and experience in security and regulatory frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST 800 series, FFIEC, SOC2, FedRAMP, STAR, etc.)
Ability to guide and mentor junior analysts in investigations
Understanding of enterprise detection and response technologies and processes (advanced threat detection tools, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network packet analysis, endpoint detection and response, firewalls, Anti malware/anti‑virus, Security Information and Event Management tools, etc.)
Experienced with Endpoint Detection & Response, email security, web application firewall, and cloud security tooling.
Ability to perform risk analysis utilizing logs and other information compiled from various sources
Understanding of network protocols, operating systems (Windows, Unix, Linux, MacOS, databases), and mobile device security
Knowledge of the various types of cyber‑attacks and their implementations
A fundamental understanding of enterprise cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain
Ability to document and explain technical details in a concise, understandable manner
Experience in operational processes such as security monitoring, data correlation, troubleshooting, security operations, etc.
Preferred experience with Torq, 7AI, CrowdStrike, Tanium, Snowflake, Splunk, and ELK
Scripting/programming experience preferred
Education
•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely‑related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
Visa sponsorship/support
“ Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”
Base Pay
New York / New Jersey: $182k-227k
Non–New York / New Jersey: $203k-249k
depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance‑based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.
Hybrid Work Schedule
Our hybrid work schedule is four days on‑site and work remotely one day per week.
MUFG Benefits Summary
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.