Deputy Security Operations Center Manager

Job description

Job Family: Cyber Consulting Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do: - Lead day-to-day operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC), ensuring consistent, reliable monitoring, detection, and response to security incidents across the environment. - Supervise, mentor, and develop SOC analysts and shift leads; manage staffing, scheduling, and escalation procedures for a 24/7 operational model. - Coordinate incident response activities with internal teams and external partners; drive root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement of playbooks and runbooks. - Operate and tune core SOC tooling (SIEM, EDR, SOAR) to improve detection coverage, reduce false positives, and accelerate investigation times. - Define, collect, and report on SOC performance metrics and KPIs; present operational status and trends to leadership and key stakeholders. - Partner with threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and engineering teams to operationalize threat indicators and harden systems based on observed threats and vulnerabilities. - Manage vendor relationships and third-party security monitoring services, ensuring...