Security Operations Lead (SecOps)

Required Qualifications

• Required: Public Trust Clearance – Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US public trust clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years experience in Security Operations
• Proven experience scaling a SOC through automation and AI — SOAR, hyperautomation, LLM-assisted triage, agentic workflows, or ML-driven detection — with measurable impact on MTTR, coverage, or analyst leverage.
• Hands-on experience structuring a SOC, either building one from the ground up or maturing one through significant transformation — SIEM selection, implementation or migration, detection engineering practice, runbook libraries, on-call rotations, and operating metrics.
• Deep SIEM expertise (Splunk, Sentinel, Chronicle, Elastic, or similar) — ingestion architecture, detection-as-code, query optimization, and coverage-versus-cost tradeoffs.
• Prior experience as the technical lead of a SOC or CSIRT team — owning the full incident response lifecycle, mentoring analysts and engineers, and acting as on-call/incident commander during major incidents.
• Strong incident response track record — leading high-severity investigations, root cause analysis, digital forensics, and post-incident reviews that produced durable improvements.
• Solid experience in cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP), with strong understanding of cloud-native threats and controls.
• Strong scripting and development skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar) for building automation, integrations, and internal tooling.
• Working knowledge of EDR/XDR, identity, and network detection telemetry, and how to combine signals into high-fidelity detections.
• Fluency with security frameworks and standards (NIST 800-61, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001) and the judgment to apply them pragmatically.
• Background in threat modeling, adversary emulation, and risk-based alert tuning.
• Excellent communicator — able to brief executives during a Sev1, write a clear post-mortem, and translate technical risk into business language for non-technical audiences.
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional efforts in high-pressure situations and fostering collaboration across InfoSec, IT, and engineering.
• Forensics experience, investigating incidents and preserving digital evidence.