SOC Manager

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We are seeking an experienced Security Operations Center (SOC) Project Technical Manager to lead the operations and technical direction of a large-scale government SOC. This role is responsible for managing SOC personnel, driving operational excellence, overseeing SOC analyst functions, and ensuring effective incident response across both on-premises and cloud environments. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in cybersecurity operations, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders.

As a SOC Project Technical Manager on our team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for SOC operations and security monitoring functions, and manage technical staff in daily activities. You’ll lead the integration, enhancement, and optimization of on‑premises and cloud monitoring solutions and collaborate with leadership to communicate risk, program status, major incidents, and roadmap priorities. Additionally, you’ll drive process improvement initiatives, automation opportunities, and mission enhancements, ensuring compliance with federal cybersecurity standards, such as NIST, FISMA, and agency policies, and provide guidance on detection engineering, SIEM and SOAR tuning, log management, threat analysis, and security architecture.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 10+ years of experience in a cybersecurity technical leadership role
• 7+ years of experience managing a combined on‑premises and cloud SOC environment
• Experience with incident response or analysis
• Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, including monitoring, detection, and analysis, incident response, solutions architecture and engineering, and tools deployment, integration, and support
• Knowledge of the integration of threat intelligence, threat hunt, forensics, and malware analysis into security operations
• Ability to analyze emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies
• Secret clearance
• HS diploma or GED

• Experience supporting federal civilian, DoD, or IC cybersecurity programs
• Experience with project management, risk, and compliance
• Experience with security analytics and visualization, SIEM tools, and Python
• Knowledge of security policies, procedures, processes, and regulations
• Knowledge of storage and data management, system virtualization,, and vulnerability assessment
• Ability to communicate with management and other technical subject matter experts and operators
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or IT

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Secret clearance is required>

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