Manager of Cyber Defense SIEM SOAR

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Cyber Defense Manager with strong SIEM and SOAR experience. Candidate will optimize security operations through advanced alert tuning and reduction initiatives. This role implements automation and AI solutions to streamline threat detection processes, serves as Tier 3 support for incident response investigations, ensures regulatory compliance, and delivers actionable security metrics to leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cyber security incident responders in response activities including investigation, coordination, review, closure, and reporting.
• Oversee technical analysis of security events while coordinating incident response activities with internal and external teams.

• Tier-3 support of alerts and validating tuning requests.
• Alert tuning and reduction.
• Lead Automation/AI efforts to optimize security operations effort.
• Ensure accurate documentation.

• Lead 4-6 employees and contingent labor professional for the cyber monitoring and analysis function within Cyber Defense.
• Manage team effectively in delivery of incident resolution, project tasks, compliance milestones, and systems implementations.
• Perform talent management functions, including performance reviews, direct feedback, and other administrative functions as required.
• Confer with and advise subordinates on administrative policies and procedures, technical problems, priorities, and methods.
• Promote employee development by conducting career-planning sessions with staff and selecting and scheduling employee training classes, conferences, and seminars
• Review with management, scheduling and training opportunities that fulfill role requirements for team members.

Qualifications:

• Team Leadership experience, taking initiative; providing and following through on solutions across various skillsets.
• Proven team player will be working primarily with other staff members, on both long-term projects and rapid response under tight deadlines.
• Experience in SOAR, Splunk, Symantec/Netskope DLP, CrowdStrike. Ability to create/tune alerts/rules independently.
• Effective and excellent oral and written communication, analytical, judgment and consultation skills.
• Ability to work independently and possess strong project management skills.

Technical Skills:

• Advance usage of Splunk SIEM, Splunk SOAR, CrowdStrike, Symantec/Netskope DLP.
• Incident Response playbook development managing incident analysis and remediation.
• Security Orchestration and Automated Response tools and concepts.

• Scripting and development activities to appropriately leverage Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) to optimize integrations between disparate security monitoring and analysis devices.
• Knowledge of Generative and Prompt A.I.

Education and/or Experience:

• Minimum five years hands-on security operations experience including interdisciplinary experience with four or more of the following: Cyber Threat Analysis, Digital Computer Forensics, Incident Response, Application Security, Operating Systems Security, Cryptographic Controls, Networking, Programming languages, Incident Response.
• Technical experience and comprehensive knowledge of threat actor capabilities, intentions, methodologies, and motives.
• Familiarity with computer network exploitation and network attack methodologies while maintaining an understanding of the relationship these activities have with the financial services industry and critical infrastructure.
• Industry knowledge of leading-edge security technologies and methods.
• Shift work and working in an on-call response capacity is required including availability for 24 x 7 on-call support responsibilities.
• Previous people/project management experience is a plus.