How You'll Make An Impact:

- Lead and manage Security Operations Center.

- Primarily responsible for security event monitoring, management and response.

- Ensure incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation and monitoring.

- Ensure compliance to SLA, process adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives.

- Revise and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework.

- Review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs.

- Regularly review standard operating procedures and protocols to ensure SOC continues to effectively meet operational requirements.

- Responsible for team & vendor management, overall use of resources and initiation of corrective action where required for Security Operations Center.

- Perform threat management, threat modeling, identify threat vectors and develop use cases for security monitoring.

- Creation of reports, dashboards, metrics for SOC operations and presentation to Sr.Mgmt.

- Routinely engage with cross functional teams to evaluate SOCs ability to meet stakeholder needs.

- Evaluate existing technical capabilities and systems and identify opportunities for improvement.

- Oversee training and exercises to ensure SOC team proficiency, conduct after action reviews to identify lessons learned and best practices.

- Work closely Security Leadership to identify implement process changes, improvements and efficiencies and ensure solid security practices.

- Develop communication channels with technology owners and the business to evangelize the evolving threat landscape.

What We're Looking For:

- Minimum 10+ years of security incident response experience.

- Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

- Must have excellent written, communication and verbal skills to assist with communications with other teams and writing executive summaries based on work output.

- Self-managed and team-oriented.

- Deadline and detail-oriented.

- Highly motivated.

- He or She must have strong leadership experience in a high-paced complex IT environment.

- Ability to lead, influence and collaborate with remote team members, proven delivery, remediation, and incident response background.

- Should have advanced knowledge of enterprise environments consisting of Windows and Macintosh operating systems, embedded systems, networking devices, and Linux/UNIX.

- Requires operational knowledge of firewalls, routers, switches, messaging systems, various commonly used operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc. ), common attack tools, and vulnerability detection/management tools.

- Strong background in security incident response, vulnerability management, system operations, and application operations a plus.

What You Can Expect From Optiv:

- A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.

- Work/life balance.

- Professional training resources.

- Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects.