Remote Security Operations Lead - NGSIEM & Threat Detection

Cognizant; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays/Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Security Operations Manager to oversee enterprise security operations, threat monitoring, incident response, and detection engineering across a complex cybersecurity environment. You will lead SOC analysts and engineers, collaborating with infrastructure and cloud teams to strengthen security posture.

This remote US-based role emphasizes leadership, detection rule development, and continuous improvement to deliver measurable security outcomes and strengthen defenses

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading Security Operations Center (SOC) functions, incident response, and threat detection programs.
• Hands‑on experience with CrowdStrike Falcon, Falcon NGSIEM, or comparable SIEM platforms.
• Strong expertise in threat hunting, incident investigation, detection engineering, and cybersecurity operations.
• Experience managing log onboarding and monitoring across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network security platforms.
• Proven ability to develop and optimize detection rules, correlation use cases, dashboards, and response workflows.
• Experience monitoring security operations metrics such as SLAs, KPIs, MT TD, and MTTR.
• Demonstrated leadership mentoring security analysts and engineers.
• Strong communication with stakeholders to present risks and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead security operations, threat monitoring, and detection activities using CrowdStrike Falcon NGSIEM.
• Manage incident detection, investigation, response, and proactive threat hunting across the enterprise.
• Oversee NGSIEM administration, platform health, performance, and optimization.
• Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules, correlation logic, security use cases, and dashboards.
• Drive security automation, governance reporting, and continuous improvement while guiding SOC staff.

Skills

SOC leadership

Incident response

Threat detection

CrowdStrike Falcon NGSIEM

Security analytics

Log onboarding

Detection rule development

Dashboards & metrics

Team mentorship

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon NGSIEM

SIEM platforms

Cloud security monitoring

Security analytics tools

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Lead Security Operations Manager to oversee enterprise security operations, threat monitoring, incident response, and detection engineering across a complex cybersecurity environment. You will lead SOC analysts and engineers, collaborating with infrastructure and cloud teams to strengthen security posture.

This remote US-based role emphasizes leadership, detection rule development, and continuous improvement to deliver measurable security outcomes and strengthen defenses