Security Ops Manager

Employment Type: Full Time

Directorate: Cyber Security Engineering

Location: Northern Virginia, Tysons Corner / Reston

Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Required

Experience Level: Senior-Level, 5+ Years

Altus Consulting is seeking experienced Sec Ops Managers to lead shift operations within a 24/7/365 cleared cloud Security Operations Center supporting a mission-critical federal customer environment. The selected candidates will provide hands-on operational leadership, oversee security alert queues, guide incident triage and escalation, coach analysts, and help ensure consistent execution of security operations procedures.

This is a hands-on security operations role. Sec Ops Managers will work directly alongside analysts, maintain awareness of active incidents, oversee shift transitions, and collaborate with engineering teams to continually improve detections, playbooks, and operational performance.

• Lead day-to-day Sec Ops activities during assigned shifts and serve as the primary technical and operational resource for analysts.
• Manage active security alert queues and ensure alerts and incidents are acknowledged, investigated, documented, and escalated within established service levels.
• Review and pre-screen technical escalations before engagement with higher-tier security engineering resources.
• Coach Sec Ops Analysts on alert triage, SIEM and EDR analysis, incident investigation, documentation, and escalation procedures.
• Coordinate structured shift handoffs for active High and Critical incidents.
• Identify noisy alerts, recurring false positives, ineffective playbooks, and opportunities to improve security detections and operational processes.
• Collaborate with security engineers to improve SIEM detections, response procedures, and playbooks.
• Support incident reporting, operational metrics, situational awareness, and recurring customer reporting.
• Ensure security operations procedures, runbooks, documentation standards, and customer requirements are consistently followed.
• Provide hands-on support for security playbook and runbook testing and validation.

• Extensive experience working in a Security Operations Center or Cyber Incident Response environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk, Elastic/ELK, Google Sec Ops/Chronicle, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with EDR, IDS, case management, and incident response technologies.
• Experience with Service Now or comparable security case-management platforms.
• Experience with Google Sec Ops/Chronicle, YARA-L, SOAR, Google Cloud IAM, Cloud Audit Logs, or Security Command Center.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems, networking, vulnerability management, and security hardening.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud security, or air-gapped computing environments.
• Experience developing or tuning security detections and response playbooks.
• Previous experience supporting classified, SCIF, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or Federal cybersecurity environments.
• Strong leadership, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph is required.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Five or more years of Security Operations Center or incident response experience.
• Previous experience leading security operations shifts and coaching security analysts.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, IDS, and security case-management technologies.
• Experience supporting Windows and Linux environments, network infrastructure, and security applications.
• Working knowledge of network analysis, vulnerability management, and security hardening practices.
• Ability to support a 24/7 operational environment, including assigned day, swing,…