Head of Cybersecurity Detection Engineering (SIEM/SOAR)

Yapı Kredi Teknoloji; İzmit; Hybrid; TRY 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model

Koç Group offices access

Career development

BizClub privileges

Retirement insurance

Birthday off

Job summary

Yapı Kredi Teknoloji is seeking a visionary Cybersecurity Detection Engineering Manager to lead our enterprise detection ecosystem, overseeing SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA platforms, ensuring high telemetry quality and availability.

You will bridge technical execution and strategy, mentor a high‑performing team, and drive automation and standardized playbooks across hybrid environments to counter modern threats. This is a hands-on leadership role within Koç Group.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years in Cybersecurity with leadership experience
• Experience with enterprise SIEM and SOAR implementations
• Strong communication and project management skills
• Ability to lead across hybrid environments and diverse teams
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and cyber kill chain
• Knowledge of behavioral analytics and UEBA in security telemetry
• Certifications (CISSP, CISM) are a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead design, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise SIEM infrastructure
• Integrate logs from diverse sources into a central pipeline
• Set KPIs for log ingestion health, data parsing accuracy, and uptime
• Identify telemetry gaps and outages and optimize performance
• Collaborate with SOC to develop correlation rules and models
• Drive automation using SOAR to speed incident response
• Standardize playbooks for containment and cross-platform integrations
• Mentor and scale a high-performing engineering team

Skills

Cybersecurity

Leadership

SIEM

SOAR

UEBA

MITRE ATT&CK

Machine learning security

Communication

Tools

SIEM platforms

SOAR platforms

UEBA tools

Central logging pipelines

Job description

Yapı Kredi Teknoloji is seeking a visionary Cybersecurity Detection Engineering Manager to lead our enterprise detection ecosystem, overseeing SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA platforms, ensuring high telemetry quality and availability.

You will bridge technical execution and strategy, mentor a high‑performing team, and drive automation and standardized playbooks across hybrid environments to counter modern threats. This is a hands-on leadership role within Koç Group.