AI-Native SOC Manager: Lead Automation, Detection & Hunting

BambooHR; Draper (UT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Generous leave policies (vacation,hols

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

BambooHR, based in Utah, seeks a seasoned Security Operations leader to guide an AI‑driven SOC. You will oversee daily operations, incident response, and threat intelligence, while expanding detections and automation.

This hybrid, in‑office role emphasizes judgment, governance, and scalable security in a SaaS environment. You will lead a team across detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response, partnering with product security and IAM to protect HR data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 5+ years in security operations including 2+ years in people leadership.
• Experience running a SOC or detection function at a SaaS or cloud-native company.
• Hands-on detection engineering: writing, testing, tuning, retiring detections.
• Experience owning a managed detection relationship (MDR/MSSP).
• Experience automating SOC workflows via SOAR and runbooks.
• Proficiency with modern security data platforms and direct telemetry querying.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily security operations end to end, including alert handling, on-call rotation, incident assignment, and backlog prioritization.
• Serve as incident commander for most security incidents with executive communication.
• Manage security service-provider relationships and drive tuning.
• Publish regular operational metrics for leadership use.
• Build and enforce automated incident runbooks and triage workflows.
• Own detections as a product with version-controlled rules and CI validation.
• Stand up a formal threat intelligence program and a cadence for hunting.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Detection engineering

Team leadership

AI/LLM integration

Executive communication

On‑call management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Tools

SOAR

Version control / rule as code

Job description

BambooHR, based in Utah, seeks a seasoned Security Operations leader to guide an AI‑driven SOC. You will oversee daily operations, incident response, and threat intelligence, while expanding detections and automation.

This hybrid, in‑office role emphasizes judgment, governance, and scalable security in a SaaS environment. You will lead a team across detection engineering, threat intelligence, and incident response, partnering with product security and IAM to protect HR data.