SOC Manager

KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co.; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HMO with 2 Free Dependents

Communication Allowance

Rice Allowance

Clothing Allowance

Christmas/Holiday Gift

Group Personal Accident Insurance

Life Insurance with coverage

Flexi-ben reimbursement

Bereavement Assistance

Retirement Plan

Leave Privileges

Holiday shutdown

Weather-related suspensions

Job summary

KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co. is seeking a Security Operations Manager to lead the 24x7 SOC, coordinate incident response, and ensure alignment of people, processes, and technology with objectives and SLAs. The role involves technical oversight of security tools and continuous improvement of playbooks.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years leading security teams, strong ITIL experience, and hands-on skills with SIEMs and scripting to support enterprise security operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in security leadership and building career development plans.
• Extensive ITIL-based experience in IT operations and services.
• Design and measure security KPIs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Ability to create shift schedules for 24x7 coverage.
• Deep knowledge of modern security concepts and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the 24x7 SOC delivery team and drive accountability.
• Oversee daily SOC activities to protect networks, systems, and apps.
• Escalate cases to appropriate teams as needed.
• Update SOPs and playbooks from lessons learned.
• Provide technical oversight for security tool deployments.
• Monitor service levels and prioritize threats using IDS, firewalls, and SOC tools.
• Identify intrusion attempts by reviewing event details and summaries.
• Proactively mitigate information security risks.
• Coordinate shift schedules and staffing coverage.
• Stay current with vendor updates and technology directions.

Skills

Security leadership

ITIL/ITSM

Incident response

Threat monitoring

SOP development

PowerShell

Bash scripting

Azure Sentinel

SIEM tools

Tools

Splunk

LogRhythm

Cisco IOS

JunOS

Job description

About the role

The Security Operations Manager is responsible for leading the day-to-day operations of the SOC Analyst staff. The role coordinates and works with the SOC Analysts to make sure that the analysts, processes, and technology are meeting the SOC security monitoring, analysis, and escalation objectives, organization service level agreements, objectives, and metrics. They are also responsible for communicating with the executive level management team (when deemed necessary) and serving as the principle liaison coordinating incident response functions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the 24x7 delivery team, foster innovation, and drive accountability within SOC engineering.




• Oversee the daily activities of the SOC to ensure the integrity and protection of networks, systems, and applications by technical enforcement of organizational security policies.




• Ensure escalation of cases to the appropriate teams.




• Conduct follow-up meetings of escalated or noteworthy cases and modifies SOPs and playbooks based on policies, standards and best practices learned from previous cases.




• Provide technical oversight for security tool deployment and implementation.




• Continuously monitor levels of service as well as interpret and prioritize threats through use of intrusion detection systems, firewalls and other boundary protection devices, and any security incident management products deployed.




• Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough review and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information.




• Monitor and proactively mitigate information security risks.




• Coordinate shift schedule and deployment of staffing within the established structure. Manage regular, holiday, illness, vacation and emergency scheduling.




• Keep current with the latest vendor updates, expansion opportunities, and technology directions, utilized in the Clients environment.

About you

• Minimum 7 years Security leadership, with experience building long-term career development plans for team members at all levels.




• Exceptional operational rigor with extensive real-world experience in ITIL methodologies and frameworks for IT operations.




• Experience in designing, implementing and measuring relevant security and technology management critical success factors, key performance indicators, and metrics.




• Ability to create shift schedules to ensure 24x7 coverage by support personnel.




• In-depth knowledge of modern security concepts and how to apply them.




• Advanced scripting knowledge with languages like PowerShell, bash/ksh/sh, Cisco IOS.sh, JunOS sh/csh, Perl, Tcl, Lua.




• Familiarity with Azure Sentinel.




• 4-6 year's experience with SIEM tools (Sentinel, Splunk, Logrhythm, etc.).




• 4-6 year's experience with Incident Response activities.




• Expert knowledge of security best practices and concepts.

Benefits

• HMO with 2 Free Dependents




• Communication Allowance




• Rice Allowance




• Clothing Allowance




• Christmas/Holiday Gift (Christmas Cash Gift)




• Group Personal Accident Insurance




• Life Insurance with coverage




• Flexi-ben reimbursement (Medical/Dental/Optical)




• Bereavement Assistance




• Retirement Plan




• Leave Privileges




• Firm-wide holiday shutdown on last 2 weeks of the year




• Company work suspensions during extreme weather conditions