Director, Threat Detection & Response

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raritan, NJ +1

Director of Threat Detection & Incident Response at Johnson & Johnson, focusing on cybersecurity posture enhancement, incident investigation, containment, and recovery. The role involves leadership, digital forensics, stakeholder management, and evaluating AI/ML tools for threat detection and automation within a Security Operations Center (SOC) context.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide subject matter expertise and participate in performing continuous monitoring of suspicious activity and alerts, triage and diagnosis of threats, and root cause analysis and remediation of incidents.
  2. Collect and analyze electronic devices, logs, malware, and other digital artifacts in support of security investigations and response.
  3. Prepare and present regular reports and updates to senior management on the status and impact of incident response efforts.

Skills

Required

  • digital forensics and incident response
  • Digital forensics tools and techniques
  • Incident response including major incident response leadership
  • Technical writing and communication
  • Cyber defense frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS)
  • SIEM tools (Splunk, Sentinel)
  • Programming or scripting (PHP, Python, Javascript)
  • Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence and ML‑based threat detection and automation tools and how to govern their use in a SOC/TDR context.
  • Understanding of ML model behavior, false‑positive reduction, and ethical governance.
  • Data interpretation and feature‑analysis capabilities for threat‑analytics models.

Nice to have

  • Business Process Design
  • Creating Purpose
  • Crisis Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Developing Others
  • Inclusive Leadership
  • Information Security Auditing
  • Information Security Management System (ISMS)
  • Information Technology (IT) Security Assessments
  • Information Technology Strategies
  • Leadership
  • Organizing
  • People Performance Management
  • Presentation Design
  • Process Optimization
  • Security Architecture Design
  • Security Policies

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years of experience in digital forensics and incident response
  • major incident response leadership
  • Familiarity with Artificial Intelligence and ML‑based threat detection and automation tools and how to govern their use in a SOC/TDR context.
  • Understanding of ML model behavior, false‑positive reduction, and ethical governance.
  • Data interpretation and feature‑analysis capabilities for threat‑analytics models.