SVP, Security Engineering and Operations

Description

Banc of California, Inc. (NYSE: BANC) is a bank holding company headquartered in Los Angeles with one wholly‑owned banking subsidiary, Banc of California (the “bank”). Banc of California is one of the nation’s premier relationship‑based business banks focused on providing banking and treasury management services to small, middle‑market, and venture‑backed businesses. Banc of California offers a broad range of loan and deposit products and services, with full‑service branches throughout California and Denver, Colorado, as well as full‑stack payment processing solutions through Banc Edge.

The bank is committed to its local communities by supporting organizations that provide financial literacy and job training, small business support, affordable housing, and more.

At Banc of California, our success is driven by our people, and we take pride in fostering an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We embrace a culture of empowerment, progressive thinking, and entrepreneurial spirit, ensuring our team members have an opportunity to make an impact and play an important role in the future of Banc of California. Our core values – Entrepreneurialism, Operational Excellence, and Superior Analytics – empower us in creating a dynamic and inclusive workplace.

We are committed to supporting your growth and well‑being with comprehensive benefits, career development programs, a variety of employee resource groups, and more. TOGETHER WE WIN®

At Banc of California, our success is driven by our people, and we take pride in fostering an environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We embrace a culture of empowerment, progressive thinking, and entrepreneurial spirit, ensuring our team members have an opportunity to make an impact and play an important role in the future of Banc of California.

The SVP, Security Engineering & Operations is the leader responsible for building and operating the Bank’s security engineering capability and 24x7 security operations program. This role oversees network security, SIEM and security tooling strategy, the Bank’s SOC, incident response escalation and triage as needed, threat intelligence and proactive hunting, security architecture and engineering standards, and cloud security posture management. This role will drive measurable risk reduction and create a continuous improvement environment, partnering closely with IT, business units, and Security Risk and Assurance.

Performs all duties in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, all U.S. state and federal laws and regulations, wherein the Company operates.

• Own the Security Operations process and function, including SIEM roadmap, tuning, content development, and operational metrics.
• Lead major incident escalations as needed and post‑incident root cause analysis and corrective action plans.
• Mature existing Threat Detection & Response capabilities (EDR/XDR, SOAR automation, use case catalog, purple teaming) and measurable detection coverage across the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Manage outsourced SOC vendor(s): performance SLAs, playbook alignment, knowledge transfer, surge capacity, and continuous quality improvement.
• Build an integrated Threat Intelligence function: sources, enrichment, ingestion pipelines, and intelligence‑led detection prioritization.
• Stand up Threat Hunting practices focused on high‑risk behaviors, identity compromise patterns, lateral movement, and cloud‑native attack paths.
• Define secure architecture standards (network segmentation, zero trust, identity‑first controls, encryption, secrets management, key management).
• Own Security Tooling & Platforms: roadmap, lifecycle management, integrations (SIEM/XDR/SOAR/DLP etc.).
• Partner to embed security‑by‑design into infrastructure, application delivery, and development pipelines.
• Build and lead high‑performing teams:
  Security Operations, Threat Intelligence & Hunting, Security Engineering, Security Architecture, and Cloud Security.
• Involved with interviewing and hiring decisions.
• Prepare and deliver employee performance evaluations, goal…