Senior SOC Lead & Incident Response Architect

Noventiq Seven Seas Technology; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Noventiq Seven Seas Technology is seeking an experienced SOC Leader to run a 24x7 security operations center in Dubai. You will own monitoring, incident response, and runbooks, while coordinating with IT, legal, and executive stakeholders during incidents.

Lead recruitment and development of L1–L3 analysts, drive detection maturity, and integrate threat intel into content and alerts. Strong collaboration with clients and internal teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in cybersecurity with leadership in SOC/IR.
• Proven experience running SOC for 24x7 environments and multiple clients or units.
• Hands-on SIEM/EDR/XDR and SOAR expertise with metrics to improve outcomes.
• Demonstrated incident command during major incidents and recovery.
• Strong understanding of attacker tradecraft and MITRE ATT&CK.

Responsibilities

• Lead 24x7 SOC operations across all shifts with escalation paths.
• Define runbooks, SLAs, and quality standards; audit analyst work.
• Serve as incident commander and coordinate with IT, legal, and execs.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain L1–L3 analysts; manage rosters and careers.
• Drive detection maturity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping and SOAR adoption.
• Engage stakeholders with incident summaries and service performance.

Skills

SOC management

Incident response

24x7 operations

SIEM

EDR/XDR

SOAR

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Sentinet

Securonix

CrowdStrike

Microsoft Defender

SentinelOne

Job description

Noventiq Seven Seas Technology is seeking an experienced SOC Leader to run a 24x7 security operations center in Dubai. You will own monitoring, incident response, and runbooks, while coordinating with IT, legal, and executive stakeholders during incidents.

Lead recruitment and development of L1–L3 analysts, drive detection maturity, and integrate threat intel into content and alerts. Strong collaboration with clients and internal teams is essential.