Cyber Defense Unit Manager

Acronis is a global leader in cyber protection, delivering AI-powered protection for productive MSPs in a single, natively integrated platform that unifies operations management, cybersecurity, and data protection. Driven by our mission to protect, manage and automate every workload that businesses and lives depend on, we’ve built the industry’s only all-in-one solution. We are looking for an experienced Cyber Defense Unit Manager to lead and strengthen our global cyber defense capabilities. This role owns security operations, threat detection, incident response, threat intelligence, and proactive defense. You will build a high-performing team and continuously improve our ability to anticipate, detect, and respond to evolving cyber threats. The ideal candidate combines deep cybersecurity expertise, operational leadership, and people management to build a modern, intelligence-driven cyber defense function. You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced global technology environment and can move seamlessly between strategy, hands-on operations, major incidents, and executive-level communication. WHAT YOU’LL DO Strategy and Leadership Lead the Cyber Defense function, including strategy, roadmap, operating model, and continuous maturity improvement (e.g., against NIST CSF or SOC-CMM) Manage, mentor, and develop a global team of analysts, responders, threat hunters, and detection engineers, ensuring coverage across time zones, including follow-the-sun or on-call models Define the b