Cyber Defense Operations Advisor

Cydere; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Retirement match

Hybrid work model

Paternity leave

PTO & sick leave

Volunteer time

Professional development

LinkedIn L&D

Phone reimbursement

Job summary

Cyderes is seeking an experienced Operations Advisor for its Cyber Defense Operations team in a customer-facing role focused on detection engineering, security monitoring optimization, and continuous improvement across multiple client environments.

You will partner with customers and Cyderes SOC teams to enhance threat detection capabilities, identify security gaps, and improve the effectiveness of managed security operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in SOC operations and detection engineering.
• Hands-on experience developing and tuning SIEM detection rules.
• Experience with Google SecOps/Chronicle, Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Strong customer-facing advisory skills.
• Ability to manage multiple client environments.
• Experience in MSSP or MDR environments.
• SIEM content engineering and detection use-case development.
• Familiarity with KQL, SPL, or YARA-L.
• Understanding of incident response and threat hunting workflows.
• Experience delivering technical recommendations to enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical advisor and point of contact for assigned customer environments.
• Manage security operations relationships across a portfolio of approximately eight client environments.
• Develop, implement, and optimize detection rules and security monitoring content.
• Work with SIEM platforms including Google SecOps (Chronicle), Microsoft Sentinel, and Splunk.
• Identify gaps in customer security monitoring, log ingestion, and detection coverage.
• Partner with SOC analysts and detection engineers to improve alert quality and reduce false positives.
• Provide recommendations for improving customer security posture and operational effectiveness.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within Cyderes managed detection and response services.
• Collaborate with internal security operations teams on investigations, escalations, and threat detection strategies.
• Communicate technical findings and security recommendations to customer stakeholders.

Skills

SOC operations

detection engineering

SIEM engineering

cybersecurity consulting

Google SecOps

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

MITRE ATT&CK

log ingestion

alert analysis

incident response

MSSP MDR

SIEM content engineering

YARA-L

KQL

SPL

Tools

Chronicle

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Job description

Cyderes is seeking an experienced Operations Advisor for its Cyber Defense Operations team in a customer-facing role focused on detection engineering, security monitoring optimization, and continuous improvement across multiple client environments.

You will partner with customers and Cyderes SOC teams to enhance threat detection capabilities, identify security gaps, and improve the effectiveness of managed security operations.