Baylor Scott & White Health · 5 hours ago
Director Information Security Operations
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
5+ years expBaylor Scott & White Health is one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the United States, seeking a Director of Information Security Operations to lead and mature enterprise-wide cybersecurity operations. The role involves overseeing security operations, driving maturity and automation, and ensuring incident response readiness across various environments.
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Responsibilities
Lead and develop an internal Security Operations team of approximately 8 professionals, including multiple people managers
Provide strategic and operational oversight of a 24x7x365 outsourced MSSP SOC, including both onshore and offshore components
Establish clear accountability for MSSP performance through well-defined SLAs, KPIs, and continuous service improvement metrics
Serve as a senior escalation point for major security incidents and lead coordinated enterprise response efforts
Oversee hybrid SOC operations across internal and vendor-managed environments
Ensure comprehensive log ingestion, validation, and monitoring coverage across endpoints, cloud platforms, enterprise systems, and medical devices
Lead development and continuous improvement of detection use cases, alert triage processes, and response workflows
Drive the creation, testing, and maintenance of playbooks and runbooks aligned to real-world healthcare threats
Ensure incident response readiness through regular tabletop exercises and cross-functional coordination
Own the enterprise Vulnerability Management program from a Security Operations perspective, including vulnerability discovery, prioritization, tracking, and remediation oversight
Provide operational oversight for network security monitoring and response, including firewall telemetry, IDS/IPS, network detection and response, and segmentation controls
Drive automation initiatives using best-in-class SIEM, SOAR, and AI-enabled security operations technologies
Reduce mean time to detect and respond through orchestration, automated containment, and response workflows
Continuously mature the security operations program to address emerging threats, evolving attack techniques, and changes in the healthcare threat landscape
Provide operational leadership for: Endpoint Detection and Response and XDR, Email security, Cloud security operations, Desktop security, OT and medical device security, Vulnerability Management, and Network Security
Partner with MSSP, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure security telemetry and controls are correctly implemented and monitored
Act as a trusted security partner to Legal, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, Internal Audit, and executive leadership
Translate technical security risks into clear business and patient safety impacts for non-technical stakeholders
Support regulatory, audit, and compliance activities related to security operations and incident response
Engage with vendors and service providers to ensure alignment with organizational security objectives
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of work experience above the minimum qualification
5 years of experience
Proven leadership experience in enterprise security operations, including direct management of people managers
Demonstrated experience managing both internal SOC teams and outsourced MSSP SOC providers
Strong hands-on experience with modern SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, and email security platforms
Deep understanding of incident response, threat detection, and security operations processes
Ability to lead during high-pressure incidents with sound judgment and clear communication
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to explain technical issues in business terms
Experience supporting regulated clinical and patient care environments
Preferred
Healthcare security experience strongly preferred
Experience with: HIPAA, HITECH, NIST CSF 2.0, HITRUST, Medical device and OT security
Certifications: CISSP and or CISM strongly preferred
Company
Baylor Scott & White Health
Baylor Scott & White Health is a non-profit health care system that research about the outpatient, and emergency treatment services.
10001+ employees
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