Security Operations Center Technical Lead

Invictus International Consulting, LLC.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Invictus International Consulting, LLC. seeks an experienced Security Operations Center Technical Lead in Colorado Springs, CO. The role requires senior expertise in SOC operations, incident response, and threat hunting, along with TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph eligibility.

You will lead complex investigations, coordinate with stakeholders, and guide SOC playbooks, escalation, and risk-informed defenses in a DoD/IC environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; four more years may substitute for education.
• Minimum 8 years of directly related cybersecurity experience.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II or IAM Level II certification required.
• Experience in DoD or Intelligence Community environments is desirable.
• Expert-level hands-on experience in SOC operations, cyber defense, incident response, threat hunting, and adversary analysis.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for SOC watch operations and cyber defense activities.
• Lead complex investigations, incident response, threat hunts, and exposure assessments with technical direction.
• Analyze host and network telemetry, firewall/IDS data, authentication activity, and vulnerabilities.
• Establish and improve SOC procedures, triage standards, escalation criteria, and incident workflows.
• Mentor SOC analysts and lead threat-hunting campaigns based on threat intelligence.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

SOC operations leadership

Mentoring

MITRE ATT&CK

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

SIEM/SOAR

ACAS/Tenable

runZero

STIG/SCAP

Job description

Title: Security Operations Center Technical Lead

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior technical authority for SOC watch operations, cyber defense analysis, threat hunting, incident response, and operational cyber risk supporting the establishment and maturation of a new DoD SOC
• Lead the most complex cyber defense investigations, incident-response activities, threat-hunting campaigns, and exposure assessments while providing technical direction when scope, impact, evidence, or response options are uncertain
• Perform advanced analysis of host and network telemetry, firewall and IDS/IPS data, authentication activity, endpoint data, intrusion artifacts, vulnerabilities, configurations, and other relevant security evidence
• Establish and continuously improve SOC investigative methodologies, triage standards, severity and escalation criteria, evidence requirements, incident workflows, threat-hunting processes, case-quality standards, and shift-turnover practices
• Serve as the highest-level operational escalation point for SOC personnel and mentor senior and developing analysts through complex investigations, threat hunts, exercises, and defensive activities
• Lead advanced threat-hunting campaigns based on threat intelligence, adversary TTPs, mission priorities, incidents, environmental changes, and identified detection gaps
• Apply MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, network forensics, host analysis, vulnerability context, adversary analysis, and threat-informed defense techniques to complex investigations and proactive defensive operations
• Establish methodologies for correlating vulnerability, asset, configuration, network reachability, system criticality, security-control, threat, and incident data to identify and prioritize operational cyber risk
• Lead complex cyber exposure and impact assessments, including exploitation scenarios, attack paths, affected-system analysis, compensating controls, and risk-informed courses of action
• Coordinate significant incidents, cyber findings, and operational risks with government stakeholders, ISSOs/ISSMs, system owners, administrators, engineers, incident-response organizations, and other agencies as required
• Partner with cybersecurity engineering teams to translate operational requirements into actionable SIEM/SOAR, network monitoring, endpoint, telemetry, analytics, enrichment, automation, and detection capabilities
• Identify systemic visibility, detection, tooling, workflow, exposure, and analyst-proficiency gaps and develop recommendations to improve SOC effectiveness and enterprise security posture
• Lead development and validation of SOPs, runbooks, incident-response and threat-hunting playbooks, analyst qualification standards, training scenarios, exercises, and lessons-learned actions
• Provide senior technical guidance to SOC leadership through risk assessments, threat assessments, metrics, briefings, and recommendations addressing watch readiness, threat activity, high-risk exposures, capability gaps, remediation priorities, and defensive improvements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline; four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum 8 years of directly related cybersecurity experience
• Must possess a DoD 8570 IAT Level II or IAM Level II certification
• Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community environments is desired
• Expert-level, hands-on experience in SOC operations, cyber defense analysis, incident investigation, incident response, threat hunting, adversary analysis, or closely related cybersecurity operations
• Demonstrated ability to establish or materially improve SOC operating procedures, investigative standards, threat-hunting methodologies, incident workflows, or analyst qualification/training programs
• Expert knowledge of enterprise networking, network security monitoring, host/endpoint analysis, identity/authentication activity, incident response, adversary TTPs, threat intelligence, vulnerability/exposure management, and threat-informed defense
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and experience operationalizing threat intelligence in SOC, threat-hunting, or cyber defense activities
• Demonstrated experience correlating vulnerability, asset, configuration, threat, incident, and security-control data to assess operational risk and prioritize remediation or defensive actions
• Experience with SIEM/SOAR, detection engineering, network-security monitoring, endpoint security, vulnerability management, asset discovery, and continuous monitoring capabilities
• Experience with ACAS/Tenable, runZero or comparable exposure/asset-discovery tools, DoD STIG/STIG Viewer, SCAP, POA&M processes, and integration of SOC/incident-response findings with ISSO/ISSM or RMF functions is highly desired
• Experience helping establish, transform, or mature a SOC, CSIRT, threat-hunting, or cyber defense capability is highly desired
• TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled