Our client, a great data center company in Dallas, is looking for a Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operations Center to join their team.
Summary: The Senior Manager, Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) is a handson technical and people leader responsible for overseeing 24/7 global security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response across the company's IT, OT, cloud, and product platform environments. This role owns realtime situational awareness, rapid containment of cyber threats, and continuous improvement of cyber defense capabilities.
This leader drives operational excellence within a hightempo global SOC, balancing decisive incident response with longterm detection engineering, automation, and program maturity while building and mentoring a worldclass security operations team.
Responsibilities: - Lead daytoday operations of a 24x7 global SOC using followthesun and fusion center operational models.
- Oversee realtime monitoring, triage, escalation, and resolution of security events across enterprise IT, OT, cloud, and edge platforms.
- Direct major cyber incident response efforts endtoend, coordinating containment, eradication, recovery, and postincident analysis.
- Own and continuously optimize SOC tooling including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/MDE, NDR, vulnerability management, and case management platforms.
- Drive detection engineering, threat hunting, and intelligence integration to improve alert quality and adversary visibility.
- Partner crossfunctionally with IT, OT, Product, Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Operations during highimpact incidents.
- Own SOC KPIs including MTTD, MTTR, detection coverage, and alert fidelity, reporting outcomes to executive leadership.
- Lead the SOC technology modernization roadmap including automation, enrichment, and machineassisted detection capabilities.
Qualification: - 8-12+ years of cybersecurity experience with at least 5 years in security operations or incident response leadership roles.
- Deep technical expertise across SIEM/SOAR, EDR, NDR, cloud security monitoring, and log analytics platforms.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft security tools and ecosystem.
- Proven experience managing significant cyber incidents in complex, global environments.
- Solid understanding of IT, OT, and cloud architectures and operational risk.
- Experience aligning SOC operations with regulatory and compliance frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, DORA, PCI, SOX, and GDPR.
- Demonstrated success building, scaling, and mentoring highperforming global security teams.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC strongly preferred.
