Security Operations Team Lead
$130,000–$150,000 year
On-site · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Job Summary
Lead the SOC Analyst team as the technical and operational head, overseeing alert triage, investigations, and escalation with timely remediation. Responsibilities include conducting independent investigations, providing actionable recommendations to clients, mentoring junior analysts in forensics, malware analysis, and threat hunting, developing and refining SOC processes, SOPs, runbooks, and incident response playbooks, performing proactive threat hunting, and communicating escalations to executive stakeholders. The role requires developing automation to reduce alert volume, tuning detections, and maturing a client’s cybersecurity program, with strong collaboration across leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and five (5) or more years in Information Technology
- In lieu of a degree, two (2) years of experience in a related technology field and relevant industry certifications are required.
- Demonstrated experience with SOC operations, executing security event triaging and tuning.
- Demonstrated experience writing runbooks and support procedures.
- Demonstrated experience as a technical lead for security operations.
- Strong understanding of Incident Response phases and demonstrated experience responding to security incidents.
- Demonstrated experience with security event triaging and threat hunting executed through both a SIEM and EDR toolset.
- Demonstrated experience with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) or Security Orchestration Automation and Response solutions.
- Must be authorized to work within the United States.
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