**Must be a U.S. Citizen who has or is able to obtain a security clearance.**

 

Job Description:

In this player/coach role, you will manage and mentor SOC staff through the use of the client's methodology and product. The SOC Manager is responsible for interaction with clients and potential clients. As part of client's holistic cyber security strategy, members of the SOC will also have the opportunity to perform SOC assessments, and IR tabletop exercises.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the SOC floor in the implementation of the client's Methodology
• Determine staffing requirements: guiding recruitment, hiring, training, development, and retention of highly qualified team members
• Foster innovation, creativity, collaboration, and professional growth of the SOC team
• Maintain strong standards, and promote productivity, accountability and high morale
• Oversee training and exercises to ensure SOC team proficiency
• Influence and improve upon existing processes through innovation and operational change
• Develop and support strategic plans and projects to meet SOC goals and objectives
• Conduct “after action” reviews to identify lessons learned and best practices
• Regularly review standard operating procedures and protocols to ensure SOC continues to effectively meet operational requirements
• Manage a 24x7 365 SOC Scheduling
• Evaluate existing technical capabilities and systems and identify opportunities for improvement
• Ensure the SOC analyst team is providing excellent customer service and support
• Accountability

 

Job Requirements:

• 10+ years of SOC or MSSP experience with at least 3 years in a managerial role.
• Extensive experience in customer interaction and support
• Extensive experience in training and guiding SOC analysts
• Experience in a work flow driven environment
• 5+ years of SIEM experience.
• Leaning forward work ethic
• Experience working in fast paced environments, and ability manage workload even during times of stress or escalated activity
• Professional demeanor and ability to communicate with business leaders
• Project management skills and experience
• Willingness to be active in the training, coaching, and development their team
• Experience with developing and maintaining metrics
• Engage with customers via phone, email or in person to ensure we are providing a good service and maintaining excellent customer satisfaction
• Be able to communicate IT, networking and security concepts to customers at all levels of experience and responsibility.
• Track record of creative problem solving, and the desire to create and build new processes
• Strong time management and multitasking skills as well as attention to detail
• Strong understanding of security architectures and devices.
• Strong understanding of root causes of malware infections and proactive mitigation.
• Strong understanding of lateral movement, footholds, and data exfiltration techniques.
• Comfortable with impromptu tasking and loosely defined requirements.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Additional Qualifications: 

• Experience using Security Onion suite of tools including open source applications such as Snort, Sguil, Wireshark, Bro and Argus.
• Experience with Splunk and ArcSight
• Experience with one or more scripting languages, e.g., Python, JavaScript, Perl.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field such as Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, etc.

Posted On: Thursday, March 1, 2018