BlueVoyant is hiring a
SOC Manager

Summary

BlueVoyant is seeking a SOC Manager to manage IT security for European and UK customers. The role involves supervision, oversight, incident response, communication with customers, and maintaining awareness of the current threat landscape. Basic qualifications include excellent teamwork skills, knowledge of intrusion detection/prevention systems, advanced network protocols knowledge, and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements

• Excellent teamwork skills
• Knowledge of and experience with intrusion detection/prevention systems and SIEM software
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of network protocols and devices
• Advanced experience with Mac OS, Windows, and Unix systems
• Ability to analyze event logs and recognize signs of cyber intrusions/attacks
• Ability to handle high pressure situations in a productive and professional manner
• Ability to work directly with customers to understand requirements for and feedback on security services
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics in clear and easy-to-understand language
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work effectively with a globally distributed team
• Able and willing to work in a 24/7/365 environment, including nights and weekends
• Ability to provide create signatures for security tools
• Familiarity with tools such as Wireshark, TCP Dump, Security Onion, and Splunk

Responsibilities

• Provides supervision and oversight for the Security Operations Center Team
• Assumes full responsibility and accountability for ensuring that all SOC customers receive world-class service from all Security Analysts assigned to the Security Operations Center team
• Leads post-incident review meetings to capture lessons learned following the resolution of critical events
• Ensures key Security Operations actions incorporate relevant customer impact considerations by engaging key stakeholders and communicating relevant facts and known/suspected implications of technical decisions
• Validates that Security Operations activities adequately address customer requirements for all MSS services
• Implements the Security Operations training plan as directed by the Co-Head(s) of Global SOC Operations and develops the training plan for Security Operations Center staff
• Supervise operations in deterring, identifying, monitoring, investigating, and analyzing computer network intrusions
• Supervises complex event investigation and incident declaration
• Ensure events are properly identified, analyzed, and escalated to incidents
• Hunt for suspicious activity based on anomalous activity and indicators of compromise from various intelligence feeds and toolsets
• Participate in the response, investigation, and resolution of security incidents
• Create knowledge base articles for handling medium and high severity incidents
• Assist in the advancement of security policies, procedures, and automation
• Provide incident investigation, handling, and response to include incident documentation
• Develop incident response reporting and policy updates as needed
• Serve as the technical escalation point and mentor for lower-level analysts
• Regularly communicate with customer IT teams to inform them of issues, help them remediate, and ensure that they continue to operate business as usual
• Maintain a strong awareness of the current threat landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in network/host vulnerability analysis, intrusion analysis, digital forensics, penetration testing, or related areas
• 8+ years of hands-on SOC/TOC/NOC experience
• GCIA and/or GCIH required. GCFA, GCFE, CISSP, Security +, Network +, CEH, RHCA, RHCE, MCSA, MCP, or MCSE preferred
• Familiarity with tools such as IDA Pro, PEiD, PEview, Procmon, Snort, Bro, Kali Linux, Metasploit, NMAP, and Nessus
• Familiarity with GPO, Landesk, or other IT Infrastructure tools
• Understanding and/or experience with one or more of the following programming languages: .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, C, C++