Senior SOC Manager We are seeking a Senior SOC Manager to continue the modernization of a SOC. The ideal candidate will provide technical and process guidance, establishing common/standard practices and processes, managing and assessing the day to day operation of the SOC, and driving continuous improvement. Responsibilities Include: • Lead and manage a 24x7x365 Security Operations Center providing technical oversight. • Lead staff to proactively identify, prevent and respond to security incidents. • Implementing and maintaining a comprehensive SOC program leveraging best practices and compliant with client standards and requirements. • Continue modernization planning and road mapping • Monitoring, managing, and responding to security events using client's security information and event management (SEIM) system. • Performing incident identification and assisting with security policy violations, conducting investigations, reporting/communicating infractions, eradicating/mitigating/remediating IoCs, and performing continuous monitoring. • Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring. • Evaluating Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) for applicability as a potential internal/external attach vector, developing recommendation to eliminate vulnerability/weakness. • Provide guidance on active Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&M). • Monitoring system recovery processes to ensure security features and functions are properly restored and functioning correctly following an outage. • Ensure compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLA), process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives and mitigate threats. • Author and update/revise processes (SOP's and runbooks) to strengthen the current operational activities; review policies and recommend changes to improve governance. • Responsible for team management, personnel scheduling, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for SOC. • Perform threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring. • Develop reports, dashboards, and metrics for SOC operations and presentation to leadership and clients • Coordinate with stakeholders to build and maintain positive working relationship. Salary Range: $185,000 - $200,000 General Description of Benefits • 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, threat detection, cyber defense, or related technical roles. • 3+ years of experience leading SOC operations, incident response teams, cyber operations teams, or similar security functions. • Strong understanding of SOC workflows, alert triage, escalation management, incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and security monitoring. • Experience overseeing or supporting security tools such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, ticketing platforms, and case management systems. • Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, coordinate cross-functional response activities, manage priorities, and ensure timely delivery of operational outcomes. • Conducts training and tabletop exercises as necessary for SOC analysts to improve on SOC protocols, operator proficiency and readiness. • Experience developing or enforcing SOPs, playbooks, runbooks, escalation guides, metrics, reports, and quality-control processes. • Ability to analyze operational risk, validate incident information, communicate impacts, and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing operational reports, executive briefings, and incident updates.