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About the Role

The VP, Cybersecurity Operations & Engineering is responsible for leading and maturing enterprise cybersecurity Operations and Engineering programs, with oversight on Cybersecurity program execution and risk management. This leader partners across Cybersecurity, technology, legal, compliance, privacy, and business units to align strategy, operationalize policy, strengthen controls, improve resilience, and provide measurable security outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead the enterprise cybersecurity operations & engineering programs, including documenting strategy, risk governance, organization roadmap development, budgeting, KPI reporting, and preparing executive communications.
Contribute to cybersecurity policies, standards, procedures, and control frameworks aligned to business objectives and risk appetite.
Develop and maintain governance forums, steering committee materials, risk updates, and decision-supporting business cases for senior leadership.
Partner with legal, compliance, privacy, internal audit, and technology stakeholders to strengthen the company’s overall security, regulatory, and governance posture.
Drive consistent security practices across corporate, cloud, application, and business environments, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and operating models.
Translate threat, control, and assessment findings into practical, risk-informed recommendations and prioritized remediation plans.
Provide executive oversight for security operations, including SOC and/or MSSP performance, alert monitoring, incident triage, escalation management, and operational readiness.
Own and mature incident response planning, operational runbooks, tabletop exercises, and cross-functional response coordination with technology, legal, HR, and compliance teams.
Oversee threat intelligence, threat detection, threat hunting, and vulnerability management capabilities to improve visibility, response speed, and control effectiveness.
Ensure the organization is prepared to protect, detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity events affecting critical systems, intellectual property, data, and brand reputation.
Develop and monitor operational metrics and service-level indicators for security operations, incident management, remediation progress, and program effectiveness.
Oversee the design, implementation, enhancement, and lifecycle management of cybersecurity technologies and control capabilities across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, identity, and network domains.
Partner closely with infrastructure, platform, and software engineering teams to embed security into enterprise architecture, system design, and operational workflows.
Support secure development lifecycle practices, software assurance, secure coding, and application security initiatives across internal and customer-facing environments.
Guide the selection and optimization of security tools and services, including SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and related protection technologies.
Promote automation, orchestration, and process simplification to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency across cybersecurity operations and engineering.
Lead cyber risk assessments across infrastructure, applications, vendors, business processes, and emerging technology initiatives.
Support compliance and control maturity efforts related to frameworks and obligations such as NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC, SOX, GDPR, privacy, and other applicable requirements.
Provide security leadership for vendor and third-party reviews, architectural reviews, major initiatives, and transformation programs.
Build trusted relationships with business and technology leaders to ensure security enables growth, resilience, and informed risk-taking.
Champion security awareness, education, and culture-building efforts that improve employee behavior and strengthen organizational readiness.
Lead, coach, and develop high-performing cybersecurity managers and individual contributors across program, operations, and engineering functions.
Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and service-oriented partnership.
Mentor technical teams on incident response, operational excellence, architectural decision-making, and effective communication with executive and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
12+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including leadership of enterprise security programs in complex, high-growth, or globally distributed organizations.
7+ years of leadership experience managing managers, cross-functional teams, and/or external service providers across multiple cybersecurity domains.
Demonstrated success building or maturing cybersecurity governance, program management, security operations, and security engineering capabilities.
Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, and assurance practices, including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, SOC, SOX, data privacy, and related standards.
Experience leading or overseeing incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, detection engineering, and security monitoring programs.
Strong technical understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint protection, network security, logging and monitoring, system hardening, and enterprise security architecture.
Experience working closely with software development and infrastructure teams to integrate security into lifecycle management, architecture, and operational processes.
Proven ability to define metrics, communicate risk clearly, and present meaningful security insights to operational, technical, and executive stakeholders.
Strong business judgment and the ability to balance risk reduction, operational efficiency, and strategic enablement.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization.
Master’s degree in a relevant discipline.
CISSP or comparable industry certification.
Experience in media, entertainment, sports, or other fast-paced global operating environments.
Experience overseeing a hybrid model that includes internal teams and managed security partners.
Experience building metric-driven security programs and using automation to streamline cyber workflows.

Skills

Cybersecurity program leadership
Risk governance
Roadmap development
Budgeting
KPI reporting
Executive communication
Cybersecurity policies and standards
Control frameworks
Incident response
Threat intelligence
Vulnerability management
Security engineering
Risk management
Threat-informed defense
Security operations
SOC performance
MSSP performance
Alert monitoring
Incident triage
Escalation management
Operational readiness
Threat detection
Threat hunting
Cybersecurity technologies
Cloud security
Identity and access management
Endpoint protection
Network security
Logging and monitoring
System hardening
Enterprise security architecture
Secure development lifecycle
Software assurance
Secure coding
Application security
SIEM
EDR
IDS/IPS
Firewalls
Automation
Orchestration
Cyber risk assessments
NIST CSF
ISO 27001
PCI-DSS
SOC
SOX
GDPR
Data privacy
Vendor risk management
Third-party reviews
Architectural reviews
Security awareness
Team leadership
Coaching
Mentoring
Cross-functional team management
External service provider management
Metrics definition
Risk communication
Business judgment
Influencing skills

Location

Global

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Executive
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field
Master's degree in a relevant discipline

Salary/Compensations

$225,000 - $300,000 annually

Benefits

Health care
Retirement
Vacation
Paid time off
Additional offerings

About the Company

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company.
TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization.
Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans.
TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

Equal Opportunity

TKO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding non-discrimination in employment.
TKO makes employment decisions based on merit and qualifications, without considering an employee’s or applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under federal, state or local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities.
TKO also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state or local laws.