TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We’re a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.
About the Opportunity:
TENEX is changing how MDR is delivered, and incident response is where that shows up most. As a Senior Incident Responder, you’ll be at the sharp end of our service — leading investigations, containing active threats, and guiding customers through their hardest security moments. You’ll own escalations end to end, shape how we respond as we grow, and build the track record to step into IR leadership as the team scales.
What You’ll Do:
Lead incident investigations. Own complex investigations from detection through containment, eradication, and recovery.
Drive customer response. Act as a strategic advisor to clients through active incidents as a calm, credible technical lead.
Improve response playbooks. Turn lessons from real incidents into better detections and repeatable response procedures.
Design and build data collection and preservation toolkit. Work with engineering to automate key processes in the TENEX platform, ensuring reliability and non-repudiation.
Build and deliver the custom incident response readiness assessment program, ensuring clients are prepared for an incident by strategically closing existing gaps.
Partner across business units. Work with Detection Engineering, Forward Deployment, and Software Engineering to close gaps and drive product improvements.
Mentor the analyst team. Provide coaching to SOC analysts to raise the bar on investigation quality.
What You Bring:
5+ years in incident response with at least 2 years as a tier 3 analyst,
At least 2 years experience working actual incidents end-to-end,
Deep knowledge of attacker techniques, forensics, and modern detection tooling (SIEM/SOAR, EDR).
Cloud incident response experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and customers.
Bonus Points:
Experience in an MDR/MSSP environment.
Threat-hunting or detection-engineering background.
Experience presenting findings to executive or client stakeholders.
Education & Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Relevant certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, or CISSP are a plus.
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to lead high-stakes investigations at an MDR company changing the industry, with a clear path to grow into incident response leadership.
Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations.
Competitive salary and benefits package.
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
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SOC Director
Location
Kansas City, MO SOC; Sarasota, FL HQ; Scottsdale, AZ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
Security Operations
Overview
Application
Company Overview:
TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We’re a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.
About the Opportunity:
As SOC Director, you’ll lead the team that keeps TENEX’s detection and response engine running around the clock. You’ll manage a group of SOC Managers, own the overall health and performance of the SOC, and stay hands-on enough to jump into hard technical problems alongside your analysts and engineers. This is a player-coach leadership role: you set direction and standards while remaining close to the work that protects our customers.
What You’ll Do:
Lead the SOC Managers. Manage, coach, and develop a team of SOC Managers responsible for analyst and engineering shifts.
Own SOC health and performance. Define and track the metrics that measure detection quality, response speed, and customer outcomes, and drive continuous improvement against them.
Stay technical. Remain hands-on in escalations, complex investigations, and detection engineering decisions rather than managing purely from a distance.
Support customer outcomes. Serve as a senior escalation point for customer security operations and ensure the SOC delivers consistent, high-quality protection.
Scale the operation. Build the processes, staffing plans, and playbooks needed to expand SOC coverage and capacity as customer volume increases.
Partner cross-functionally. Work with Detection Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to close gaps and improve the overall service.
What You Bring:
8+ years in security operations, with 3+ years leading SOC teams (including managing managers or team leads).
Strong hands-on technical foundation in detection, incident response, and modern SOC tooling (SIEM/SOAR, EDR, cloud).
Proven track record owning SOC performance metrics and driving measurable improvement.
Track record of building and retaining high-performing security operations teams.
Bonus Points:
Experience in a customer-facing MDR/MSSP environment.
Experience scaling a SOC in a high-growth startup.
Hands-on cloud security experience (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Background building automation-first detection and response operations.
Education & Certifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCDA, or AWS/GCP certifications are a plus.
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to lead and scale the SOC at the center of an AI-native MDR company, shaping how an entire team protects customers.
Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations.
Competitive salary and benefits package.
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
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Enterprise Sales Director-Cloud Security
Location
Remote, USA
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
Sales
Overview
Application
TENEX.AI
Enterprise Sales Director, Cloud Security
Wiz | CNAPP | Cloud-Native Security
COMPANY OVERVIEW
TENEX.AI is an AI-native, automation-first Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider built on Google Cloud Security infrastructure. We combine Google SecOps (Chronicle), Mandiant threat intelligence, and Google Threat Intelligence to deliver enterprise-grade defense at scale
We're a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We're a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work to defend security-conscious organizations against the most sophisticated threats.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This is a founding role in TENEX's cloud security go-to-market motion. As Enterprise Sales Director, Cloud Security, you will own new business development for Wiz-focused CNAPP and cloud-native security solutions. You will work alongside TENEX's Google Cloud Security co-sell motion, engage directly with CISOs and cloud security leaders, and position TENEX as the MDR layer that makes Wiz deployments operationally complete.
Wiz was acquired by Google (Alphabet) for $32B in 2026, cementing CNAPP as the centerpiece of enterprise cloud security. This role puts you at the intersection of that momentum, TENEX's AI-native MDR platform, and a co-sell motion built for scale.
THE PROFILE
A seller who understands the Wiz platform deeply, including the Security Graph, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and code-to-cloud visibility, and can articulate how TENEX MDR extends and operationalizes that investment.
A professional with experience selling into multicloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) where fragmented tooling and alert fatigue are everyday CISO pain points.
A relationship-driven closer who can navigate the DevSecOps buyer alongside the traditional security buyer, speaking fluently to both engineering and executive audiences.
A co-sell operator who knows how to work within a hyperscaler partner ecosystem, activating Google Cloud, Wiz channel partners, and the Wiz Integration Network (WIN) to drive pipeline.
A professional committed to replacing legacy SIEM and fragmented point tools with a unified, context-rich approach to cloud security.
Someone who leads with humility but carries the gravitas to challenge the status quo in a customer's cloud security program.
Someone who genuinely wants to give good the advantage.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Own and execute a cloud security sales strategy targeting enterprise accounts across your assigned territory, with a primary focus on Wiz-led CNAPP opportunities.
Develop and manage co-sell pipeline with Wiz field teams, Google Cloud Security reps, and channel partners in the Wiz Integration Network (WIN).
Engage CISOs, cloud security architects, DevSecOps leads, and procurement stakeholders to position TENEX as the MDR partner that operationalizes cloud-native security investments.
Lead discovery conversations that tie Wiz CNAPP visibility gaps to TENEX's AI-driven detection, investigation, and response capabilities.
Manage full enterprise sales cycles from prospecting through contract negotiation and close, with deal sizes typically $300K to $1M+ ARR.
Collaborate with TENEX Customer Engineering and SOC leadership to deliver compelling technical demonstrations and custom proof-of-value engagements.
Maintain pipeline hygiene and accurate forecasting in Salesforce; participate in weekly CRO deal reviews.
Represent TENEX at cloud security events, Wiz partner forums, Google NEXT, and relevant industry conferences.
Travel up to 50% to build executive relationships and accelerate key deals.
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
Cloud Security Expertise
5+ years of enterprise security sales experience, with at least 2 years focused on cloud security, CNAPP, CSPM, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated knowledge of the Wiz platform: Security Graph, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, IaC scanning, container and Kubernetes security, and data security posture management (DSPM).
Familiarity with cloud-native architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and the unique security challenges of multicloud and hybrid environments.
Understanding of the DevSecOps buyer journey and how to position security solutions that span development, cloud operations, and security operations teams.
Experience selling alongside or into the Wiz partner ecosystem (WIN, cloud marketplaces, MSSPs) is strongly preferred.
Sales & GTM Skills
Proven track record of exceeding quota in enterprise technology or cybersecurity sales ($500K to $2M+ ARR deal cycles).
Experience executing co-sell motions with hyperscalers (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure) or strategic ISV partners.
Strong command of structured sales methodologies: MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, Challenger, or Sandler.
Ability to build and manage complex multi-threaded opportunities across technical, security, and executive buying centers.
Proficiency with Salesforce and modern sales engagement tools (Outreach, Apollo, HubSpot).
Communication & Presence
Ability to present to and earn trust with CISOs, CIOs, and cloud platform owners.
Strong business case development skills: can translate cloud security risk into financial impact and executive narrative.
Comfortable navigating both the security operations and engineering buyer simultaneously.
NICE TO HAVE
Active Wiz certifications (Wiz Certified Associate, Wiz Certified Professional, or Wiz CNAPP Sales Specialist).
Google Cloud Security sales experience or Google Cloud Professional Security Engineer certification.
Background at a CNAPP, CSPM, or cloud-native security vendor (Wiz, Orca Security, Lacework, Prisma Cloud, Sysdig).
Experience displacing legacy SIEM and MDR vendors in competitive cloud security evaluations.
Familiarity with MDR services, SIEM platforms (Chronicle/Google SecOps, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel), EDR, and SOAR.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in Business, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Sales certifications such as MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, Challenger Sales, or Sandler Training are a plus.
Cloud or security certifications (Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Wiz certifications, CISSP, CompTIA Security+) are a plus.
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Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
Location
Kansas City Metro; Sarasota, FL HQ; Scottsdale, AZ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
Department
FDE
Overview
Application
Company Overview
TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We combine cutting-edge AI with human expertise to deliver security operations that are better, faster, and more cost-effective than traditional approaches.
We're a fast-growing startup backed by industry experts and top-tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital. Our team is mission-driven, customer-obsessed, and building something that matters — a new standard for how security operations should work.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI — explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody our values every day.
This role is perfect for those already in the Scottsdale, AZ, Sarasota, FL or Kansas City, MO metro area, or eager to join us. Immerse yourself in a high-performance environment built on integrity, innovation, and a relentless drive to protect our customers.
About the Role
TENEX.AI is the AI-native, human-led MDR provider. This Director owns the foundational delivery of our MDR service: how we build, deploy, manage, and integrate the platforms our service runs on: Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform. The mandate is time-to-protection and repeatable, high-quality multi-SIEM delivery at scale, standing platforms up cleanly, wiring in the customer's data and tooling, operationalizing detection content and context, and keeping it all running well across the portfolio.
This is an engineering leadership role, not an advisory or product-building one. The team implements and manages the platforms and works closely with the teams that deliver advisory engagements and develop agentic use cases; deploying and integrating what they produce and relaying field context back to them.
What You'll Do
Own time-to-protection across our supported platforms — the speed and repeatability of standing up Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform in customer environments for example.
Lead multi-SIEM engineering — build, deploy, and manage pipelines, parsers, detections, playbooks and other configuration across Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, and the Tenex Platform.
Own integrations — data-source onboarding, connector/API work, and normalization that wire the customer's environment and security tooling into the SIEMs and the Tenex Platform; build integration patterns that get reused, not rebuilt.
Own context engineering — the data mappings, entity resolution, tuning, and environment knowledge that make the platforms actually perform per customer.
Own ongoing platform management — health, optimization, and lifecycle of deployed platforms across the book of business.
Build the repeatable delivery machine — playbooks, intake, quality gates, and a capacity model that let the team scale against pipeline instead of heroics.
Lead and scale the team — hire, coach, and develop the engineers responsible for platform implementation, content, and integration; manage capacity against the customer pipeline; own delivery quality, SLOs, and OKRs.
Run the cross-team interfaces — partner with customer success, product management, threat intelligence, and cyber defense across the delivery lifecycle, and maintain clean support/relay channels with the advisory and agentic engineering functions.
What You Bring
Must-have
8+ years in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering, with 3+ years managing engineers (ideally managing leads/managers).
Hands-on depth across both major SIEMs: Google SecOps (Chronicle — ingestion, parsers/CBN, YARA-L, entity graph) and Microsoft Sentinel (KQL, analytics rules, data connectors, Log Analytics) — or deep in one and strongly credible in the other, with clear ability to lead both.
Integration engineering — data-source onboarding, connector/API development, and normalization across platforms.
Demonstrated track record building repeatable delivery at scale — playbooks, quality gates, capacity planning — not just running individual projects.
Strong customer-facing communication; can own a delivery relationship with a customer security team.
Comfort with multi-tenant delivery and content-as-code / CI/CD workflows.
Nice-to-have
SOAR / automation (Chronicle SOAR, Sentinel automation rules & playbooks).
Pipeline and telemetry tooling (Bindplane, Logstash, or equivalent).
Terraform / IaC for repeatable environment standup.
Prior MSSP / MDR / managed security services experience.
Experience operating alongside agentic and advisory functions without absorbing their scope.
What Success Looks Like
90-day: Multi-SIEM delivery playbooks and quality gates in place. Time-to-protection baseline measured across SecOps and Sentinel deployments. Team capacity model built against pipeline. Support/relay interfaces with the advisory and agentic engineering functions defined and agreed.
6-month: Measurable reduction in time-to-protection across both SIEMs. Integration patterns reused rather than rebuilt. Ongoing platform management running to a defined health/optimization cadence. Team staffed to plan.
12-month: A repeatable, metric-driven multi-platform delivery machine that scales sub-linearly to customer growth. Managed platforms healthy across the book. The "we support, they own" interfaces to the advisory and agentic engineering functions running smoothly, with no scope drift in either direction.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, Google Cloud Professional, Microsoft SC-200/AZ-500, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect are a plus
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms
Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations
Competitive salary and benefits package
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering
Be part of building something new — TENEX's Forward Deployed Engineering organization is a greenfield opportunity to define how enterprise security is delivered at scale
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I'm interested in a career in cybersecurity
Location
Kansas City Metro; Remote, USA; San Jose, CA; Sarasota, FL HQ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Tenex
Overview
Application
If you're interested in a career in cybersecurity but don’t see a current opening that matches your skills, we still want to hear from you! We're always seeking talented individuals and often connect with exceptional candidates well before a specific role becomes available.
We have offices located in San Jose, CA; Kansas City, MO; and Sarasota, FL. All of our career opportunities will require at least 3-5 days onsite (depending on the role and team needs).
If you are interested in a career opportunity and open to Relocation to any 3 of the locations, we can provide Relocation Assistance as well.
Even if you're not actively job searching, we’d love to get to know you. The perfect opportunity might arise next month or even next year. To be considered for future opportunities, submit your application here and continue checking back for roles that align with your qualifications!
Company Summary: TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We’re a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Why Join Us?
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and Google SecOps solutions.
Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations.
Competitive salary and benefits package.
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
If you're passionate about combining cybersecurity expertise with artificial intelligence and have experience with Google SecOps and Chronicle, we encourage you to apply!
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