Job Summary

Leading a world-class Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) as the Director of SOC for the West Coast presents an exciting and challenging opportunity to lead at the forefront of cybersecurity operations. This role is central to ensuring the security and resilience of the organization's critical assets and data, making it a pivotal position in RBC’s overall threat management framework.

The successful candidate will be contributing meaningfully to the ever-evolving field of cybersecurity, providing protection at a Global scale. They will partner with the other SOC Global Leaders in Toronto and London, UK while driving innovation and excellence protecting RBC’s employees, assets, and clients.

This role is at the heart of the organization's defense strategy, ensuring timely and effective responses to ever evolving threats. This role also partners with Global Security Leadership, Executives and Business stakeholders to achieve the goals of Triage and Incident Response capabilities for cyber security incidents.

Leading a world-class SOC as a is more than just a job–it’s an opportunity to make a significant impact in safeguarding RBC from the emerging threat landscape.

Job Description

Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the SOC, ensuring alignment with RBC’s objectives. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement and establish clear priorities for threat detection, incident response, and risk mitigation.Operations Management: Oversee the day-to-day operations of the SOC, ensuring effective monitoring and response to security incidents. Optimize the tools used by the SOC – SIEM, SOAR, EDR to enhance detection and response capabilities. Implement and maintain incident response plans, playbooks, processes, and procedures.Threat Management: Monitor emerging threats and adapt strategies and defenses proactively. Ensure rapid detection and resolution of cyber incidents, minimizing impact and leverage global and regional threat intelligence to anticipate and mitigate potential attacks.Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and develop a diverse team of analysts, engineers, and threat hunters. Recruit and retain top cybersecurity talent to ensure a high-performing SOC and promote professional growth through training and certifications for team members.Professional Growth: Collaborate with industry experts and gain exposure to innovative practices and technologies in a global setting.Communications: Serve as the primary point of contact for Security Operations, reporting to leadership and collaborate with IT, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Communications, Crisis, and Group Risk Management to align security efforts with organizational needs.Incident Preparedness and Response: Coordinate the organizations response to significant security incidents, including forensic investigations and root cause analysis. Lead tabletop exercises and simulations to ensure readiness for various attack scenarios and ensure proper documentation and reporting of incidents for regulatory compliance.Provide 7/24/365 support for urgent security issues.Supplier Management: Manage and maintain supplier engagements owned locally by the SOC. Perform regular risk assessments, monitor vender engagements to ensure oversight and performance of SLA’s. Review SOC2 reports, report third party incidents to Third Party Risk, and complete all Supplier Management required tasks to ensure compliance.

Job Skills

Critical Thinking, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Interpersonal Relationship Management, IT Security Architecture, Performance Management (PM)

Additional Job Details

Address:

410 GEORGIA ST W, FLOOR 3:VANCOUVER

City:

VANCOUVER

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2025-07-21

Application Deadline:

2025-08-08

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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