Director of SOC (Security Operations Center)

SOC Director

A client in Silver Spring is seeking a Security Operations Center (SOC) Director responsible for SOC Operations. Competitive salary and hybrid schedule.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Manage Tier1 Outsourced MSSP and dark web Monitoring MSSP relationships

· Overall security monitoring of all assets, tuning alerts, analyzing security events, and maintaining security controls

· Lead and conduct advanced triage and analysis of security events

· Maintain assurance for technical security controls to ensure integrity

· Vulnerability management oversight, end user proxy access, daily SOC reports/metrics

· Manage SOC analysts

.Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information Systems, Information Technology or related field required

· 10+ years of relevant experience; 6+ years of SOC management experience

· Familiarity with SEIM and EDR tools

· Experience dealing leading investigations and managing cybersecurity events

· Familiarity with antivirus, vulnerability management, web proxies, forensics, etc.

· SANS GIAC certifications and/or ComptTIA Security+ and/or Certified Ethical Hacker

· Experience with SEIMs such as Sentinel, Plunk, LogRhythm, etc

· NDR such as Darktrace, Vectra, ExtraHop, etc.

· SOC tools such as VirusTotal, Abuse IPDb, PaloAto Watchfire, Threat Miner, Urlscan, Cisco Talos, etc.