Cybersecurity Engineering Manager - 72003934

Civicworks; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Florida Department of Management Services seeks a Cybersecurity Engineering Manager to lead the Cybersecurity Engineering section, ensuring reliable, integrated security platforms and telemetry for SOC operations. This in-office role in Tallahassee supervises a team, drives modernization initiatives, and balances daily support with strategic engineering improvements.

Responsibilities include guiding threat detection, incident response, and data pipelines, while mentoring staff and advancing

Qualifications

• Enterprise cybersecurity engineering experience with SIEM, data lakes, SOAR, and detection platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and tuning SIEM detections and Sigma rules.
• Leadership and team supervision with mentoring and performance management.
• Knowledge of incident response processes and security telemetry sources for threat detection.
• Systems security management focusing on platform availability, reliability, and resilience.
• Experience with SOC maturity and modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cybersecurity Engineering section and provide technical leadership.
• Oversee reliability, availability, and integration of security platforms and telemetry.
• Manage data pipelines used for threat detection and incident response.
• Supervise a team and mentor staff; oversee modernization initiatives.
• Balance operational support with strategic engineering improvements.
• Coordinate with SOC operations to support threat hunting.

Skills

SIEM

Data lakes

SOAR

Detection platforms

Job description

The Cybersecurity Engineering Manager leads the Cybersecurity Engineering section within Florida's Department of Management Services, providing technical leadership and operational oversight for enterprise security tooling supporting Security Operations Center (SOC) operations. The role is responsible for the reliability, availability, integration, and effectiveness of security platforms, telemetry, and data pipelines used for threat detection, analysis, and incident response. The position supervises a team, manages SOC technology modernization initiatives, and balances operational support with strategic engineering improvements. Located in Tallahassee, FL, this is an in-office position.

Key qualifications:

• Enterprise cybersecurity engineering expertise including SIEM, data lakes, SOAR, and detection platforms


• Experience designing, implementing, and tuning SIEM detections and Sigma rules


• Leadership and team supervision experience with demonstrated mentoring and performance management capabilities


• Knowledge of incident response processes and security telemetry sources for threat detection and hunting


• Systems security management practices focused on platform availability, reliability, and resilience


• Experience with cybersecurity and SOC maturity initiatives and modernization concepts