Principal SOC Architect & Incident Lead

Dayforce; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Dayforce seeks a Principal SOC Analyst to lead Security Operations in a global, distributed environment. You will guide BAU execution, improve incident handling quality, and mature security processes while enabling automation and AI-driven improvements.

You will partner with leadership and engineers to deliver clear status updates, risk summaries, and performance metrics, ensuring consistent, high-quality security outcomes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in Security Operations leading BAU and incident handling.
• Ability to translate operational needs into actionable improvements and runbooks.
• Proven track record of elevating service quality, reliability, and efficiency in a distributed SOC.

Responsibilities

• Lead SOC BAU operations, maintain rhythm, monitor service quality, coordinate priorities and escalations.
• Oversee incident handling quality, improve triage, documentation, containment and lessons learned.
• Drive process maturity with playbooks, runbooks, metrics, and governance practices to reduce friction.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident handling

Operational maturity

Automation

AI applications

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Security certifications (CEH,CISSP,GAS

Education

CISSP

CEH

GISA/Sans/GIAC security certs

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

ITSM

Threat intelligence

Job description

Dayforce seeks a Principal SOC Analyst to lead Security Operations in a global, distributed environment. You will guide BAU execution, improve incident handling quality, and mature security processes while enabling automation and AI-driven improvements.

You will partner with leadership and engineers to deliver clear status updates, risk summaries, and performance metrics, ensuring consistent, high-quality security outcomes across the organization.