Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager

Advanced Energy; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. is seeking an experienced SOC Manager in the Philippines to lead the Security Operations Center, drive incident response, and oversee detection technologies across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.

You will coordinate SOC personnel, deliver executive reports, and push continuous improvements in detection, response, and runbooks while partnering with security and IT stakeholders to reduce risk.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, including leadership in a SOC/IR/Security Operations role.
• Proven track record leading cybersecurity operations teams and managing personnel, performance, and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead SOC functions: monitoring, triage, incident investigation, response and readiness.
• Supervise, coach, and develop SOC personnel.
• Oversee detection and response using MDR, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and related security tech.
• Serve as primary escalation point for high-severity incidents with containment and communication.
• Develop SOC procedures, runbooks, and monitoring requirements.
• Provide regular security incident and threat trend reporting to executives.
• Lead post-incident reviews and lessons learned for continuous improvement.
• Oversee detection engineering to reduce false positives and expand coverage.
• Maintain understanding of modern attack techniques including cloud and SaaS threats.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

SOC operations

Incident response

Threat detection

Mentoring

Communication

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

MDR

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

Cloud security

Job description

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Position Summary

The SOC Manager is responsible for the leadership, performance, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Center (SOC). This role provides direct management and oversight of SOC personnel, processes, technologies, and service delivery to ensure effective detection, investigation, response, and recovery from cybersecurity threats across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.

The SOC Manager coordinates analyst activities, drives operational excellence, and acts as a key liaison between the SOC, Information Security, Information Technology, and other business stakeholders to reduce organizational risk and ensure a rapid and effective response to the evolving threat landscape.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Security Operations Center functions, including security monitoring, alert triage, incident investigation, response activities, and operational readiness.
• Provide direct supervision, performance management, coaching, and career development for SOC personnel.
• Oversee detection and response capabilities utilizing modern security platforms, including MDR, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, email security, and SSE technologies.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for high-severity incidents, ensuring timely containment, eradication, recovery, and communication.
• Develop and maintain SOC operational procedures, standards, runbooks, and security monitoring requirements.
• Provide regular operational and executive-level reporting on security incidents, threat trends, SOC performance, and program maturity.
• Lead post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and lessons learned to continuously improve detection and response capabilities.
• Lead and participate in detection engineering efforts to improve alert fidelity, reduce false positives, and expand coverage across the threat landscape.
• Maintain a strong understanding of modern attack techniques, including identity-based attacks, phishing, social engineering, cloud and SaaS threats, endpoint compromise, and network-based attacks.
• Expand and oversee SOC automation initiatives, including SOAR workflows and security playbooks, to improve MTTD and MTTR while reducing manual effort.
• Define, track, and report on SOC performance metrics including MTTD, MTTR, dwell time, alert fidelity, incident volume, and SLA adherence.
• Partner with threat intelligence and vulnerability management teams to enhance detection content, improve threat visibility, and strengthen detection capabilities.
• Provide leadership, coaching, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and professional development for SOC analysts across all experience levels.
• Manage staffing, workload distribution, shift coverage, and on-call rotations to maintain operational effectiveness.
• Lead regular team meetings, operational reviews, and strategic planning sessions.
• Foster a culture of innovation, integrity, empowerment, partnership, accountability, and execution.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years of management or leadership responsibility within a SOC, Incident Response, or Security Operations environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading cybersecurity operations teams and managing personnel, performance, and operational outcomes.
• Strong experience overseeing incident response, security monitoring, threat detection, and defensive cybersecurity programs.
• Experience in managing vendors, service providers, budgets, and strategic cybersecurity initiatives preferred.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCIA, GCIH, CySA+, Security+, or equivalent certifications preferred.

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees in order to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate.

Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your application in accordance with the RA No. 10173 also known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012.