Responsibilities
- Ensure continuous 24/7/365 operational coverage and meet minimum staffing requirements.
- Design and improve workflow processes for teams operating across multiple shifts on a 24/7 basis.
- Create, gather, and assess security metrics to enhance SOC effectiveness and reduce organizational risk.
- Act as the main technical cybersecurity expert, onsite task leader, and primary customer liaison.
- Oversee project planning, organization, scheduling, and status reporting.
- Formulate technical cybersecurity solutions in response to customer needs or for proposal development.
- Assist in launching new engagements as a transition program or operations lead.
- Document all business and workflow procedures within this domain.
- Offer technical guidance for developing cybersecurity capabilities.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert across multiple tasks or programs.
- Provide technical writing assistance for corporate responses to RFPs and RFQs from various clients.
Requirements
- CISSP certification.
- At least 5 years of hands-on operational and program management experience in delivering cybersecurity programs or related initiatives.
- Minimum of 7 years professional experience with strong knowledge of incident response, insider threat investigations, digital forensics, and cyber threats.
- 5-7 years in cybersecurity, including at least 5 years in a SOC leadership role.
- Deep technical expertise in SIEM, EDR, and incident response techniques.
- Comprehensive understanding of network architectures and security measures.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, STEM, or cybersecurity.
- Ability to develop dashboards, reports, and diagrams focused on insider threats.
- Experience in data collection, chain of custody, result reporting; managing and escalating security incidents; performing incident response to isolate and mitigate threats to protect data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Experience mentoring junior team members in a collaborative setting.
- Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI.
Nice to Have
- GCFA, GREM, GCIH, OSCP, GPEN, GFCE, or equivalent certifications.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Reston, VA
Other
- Hybrid role based in Reston, VA.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a program-specific background investigation.
