Global SecOps Leader: Incident Response

Bullish, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

CoinDesk seeks an experienced Manager/Sr. Manager of SecOps & Cyber Defense to lead our 24/7 security detection and response across the US, UK, and EMEA.

Based in NYC, you will work onsite at the Chelsea office four days per week and guide a lean SOC across time zones, building detection pipelines in cloud and hybrid environments. You will own incident response from detection through remediation, design detection rules, perform forensics when needed, and advance threat hunting and readiness

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on SOC experience.
• 2+ years in people management or team leadership.
• Cloud-native threat investigation across AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Proficient with SIEM, EDR/XDR, log aggregators, and SOAR.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go to automate triage.
• Strong networking and cloud architecture knowledge.
• Ability to stay calm under pressure during incidents.
• Experience in Financial Services/FinTech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor SOC Analysts and IR engineers across time zones.
• Serve as primary escalation point for high-severity incidents.
• Define and track SOC metrics (MTTD, MTTR, false positives).
• Collaborate with Infra, Cloud, DevOps, Legal, and Compliance.
• Drive end-to-end incident management from detection to remediation.
• Design and tune high-precision detection rules (SIEM/EDR/Cloud logs).
• Perform hands-on digital forensics and reverse unusual scripts.
• Research threats and fortify detection capabilities and playbooks.
• Lead Red/Purple team exercises and threat hunting activities.
• Build automated response playbooks using Python and SOAR.

Skills

SOC operations

Threat detection

Incident response

People management

Cloud-native threats

SIEM/EDR/SOAR

Python/Bash/Go

Networking fundamentals

Digital forensics basics

Calm under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or InfoSec

GIAC CISSP OSCP or equivalent

Tools

SIEM platforms

EDR/XDR suites

SOAR tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Forensics tools

Job description

CoinDesk seeks an experienced Manager/Sr. Manager of SecOps & Cyber Defense to lead our 24/7 security detection and response across the US, UK, and EMEA.

Based in NYC, you will work onsite at the Chelsea office four days per week and guide a lean SOC across time zones, building detection pipelines in cloud and hybrid environments. You will own incident response from detection through remediation, design detection rules, perform forensics when needed, and advance threat hunting and readiness