Cybersecurity Operations Manager / Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Duration: 12 months
Position Summary
We are seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Operations Manager / Technical Account Manager (TAM) to serve as the onsite liaison among client partners. This 12-month role will lead operational oversight of CrowdStrike services, including implementation, adoption, governance, and daily coordination.
The resource will coordinate implementation through steady-state support, serving as the central contact for Falcon Complete, CTEM, Falcon Guardian / AIDR, service reviews, and escalations.
Primary Objectives During the First Year
- Lead the successful implementation and onboarding of CrowdStrike services.
- Establish governance, operational reviews, escalation paths, and service-management processes.
- Manage CTEM operations and remediation coordination.
- Manage Falcon Guardian / AIDR administration and operating processes.
- Assist ICW in maturing security operations and incident-response processes.
- Complete knowledge transfer and operational-readiness documentation before the end of the assignment.
Key Responsibilities
CrowdStrike Service Management
- Act as the primary operational liaison for Falcon Complete service matters.
- Coordinate critical-incident communications, follow-up actions, and closure.
- Ensure recommendations are assigned, tracked, and resolved by the appropriate team.
Security Operations and GSI Coordination
- Coordinate implementation workstreams, dependencies, risks, and delivery with the client as the GSI.
- Maintain accountability through documented owners, due dates, actions, and escalations.
- Coordinate response and remediation across infrastructure, endpoint, identity, cloud, and application teams.
CTEM and Falcon Guardian / AIDR
- Lead day-to-day administration and operating processes for CTEM and Falcon Guardian / AIDR.
- Coordinate exposure prioritization, remediation, tuning, reporting, and continuous improvement.
- Integrate findings into ICW workflows and partner with asset owners to reduce risk.
Governance, Reporting, and Transition
- Lead weekly operational and monthly service reviews.
- Maintain a RAID log covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
- Create executive dashboards and concise status reporting.
- Maintain the roadmap, RACI, escalation model, and transition plan.
Deliverables During the Engagement
- Implementation oversight, deployment coordination, and operational transition plan.
- Security-operations governance framework, cadence, RACI, and escalation model.
- Executive dashboards, monthly service reviews, and action tracking.
- Incident-escalation and stakeholder-communication process.
- CTEM remediation tracking and Falcon Guardian / AIDR operating procedures.
- RAID log and remediation-status reporting.
- Knowledge-transfer and operational-readiness documentation.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- 10+ years of cybersecurity experience spanning security operations, incident response, threat detection, exposure management, or managed security services.
- 5+ years leading enterprise SOC, MDR, incident-response, or managed-security programs.
- 3+ years of operational experience with CrowdStrike Falcon technologies, preferably Falcon Complete, Insight, Identity Protection, Exposure Management, Next-Gen SIEM, or Guardian / AIDR.
- Experience in a senior client-facing role such as TAM, Security Operations Manager, SOC Manager, Service Delivery Manager, or Cybersecurity Program Manager.
- Proven coordination across customers, cybersecurity vendors, and global systems integrators during implementation and operations.
- Experience with critical escalations, governance, executive reporting, service reviews, and cross-functional remediation.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate technical issues into business impact and clear actions.
Preferred Technical Experience
- CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Falcon Insight EDR, Falcon Identity Protection, Falcon Exposure Management, Falcon Guardian / AIDR, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, and Falcon OverWatch.
- Security incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, vulnerability and exposure management, and SOC operations.
- ServiceNow and Jira workflows; Microsoft Intune, SCCM, BigFix, or comparable endpoint-deployment tools.
- Identity platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and Okta.
- Cloud environments include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud.
- Working knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001, and ITIL practices.
Cybersecurity and Leadership
- CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
- CISM - Certified Information Security Manager.
- CCSP - Certified Cloud Security Professional.
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED), or comparable GIAC certification.
- CompTIA Security+ for candidates whose broader experience demonstrates senior-level capability.
CrowdStrike
- CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Responder (CCFR).
- Other current CrowdStrike credentials relevant to Falcon Complete, identity, exposure management, or Next-Gen SIEM.
Program and Service Management
- ITIL 4 Foundation or advanced ITIL certification.
- Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate or Cybersecurity Architect Expert.