Lead, Cyber Security Engineer

About this role

Lead, Cyber Security Engineer Opportunity Summary:

The Lead, Cyber Security Engineer is a senior individual-contributor and team-lead role responsible for owning the end-to-end cyber security program at WW Williams. Reporting to CIO and based in the Dallas, Texas metro area, this hybrid role requires both strategic vision and deep technical execution. The successful candidate will establish measurable security baselines, drive the organization toward NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) maturity, and act as the primary defender of WW Williams' digital assets across all business units.

Job Duties:

Security Program Leadership & Governance

• Own, evolve, and communicate the WW Williams Cyber Security roadmap aligned to NIST CSF (Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover) functions.
• Establish, document, and track security KPIs and KRIs to measure baseline performance, quantify risk reduction, and demonstrate continuous improvement to executive stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and procedures in alignment with regulatory requirements and industry frameworks (NIST 800-53, CIS Controls).
• Lead periodic cyber security maturity assessments; produce gap analyses with prioritized remediation roadmaps.
• Manage relationships with MSSPs, vendors, and third-party assessors; conduct vendor security reviews.

Threat Detection, Incident Response and Threat Intelligence

• develop correlation rules and playbooks to minimize mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-respond (MTTR).
• Lead incident response activities including containment, eradication, forensic investigation, and post-incident review (PIR).
• Maintain threat intelligence feeds; translate threat actor TTPs (MITRE ATT&CK) into actionable defensive controls.
• Conduct adversarial simulation exercises (purple team / tabletop) to validate detection and response capabilities.

Endpoint, Network & Cloud Security

• Administer and optimize advanced endpoint detection and respo...