Security Operations Lead: Incident Response

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Kentucky; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off

Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with 1st‑d0

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs

Tuition Educational Assistance

Opportunities for Career Growth

Job summary

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Security Operations Lead to oversee daily security operations and guide a team of analysts in detecting, responding to, and mitigating cyber threats. The role is onsite in Springfield, MO, with no remote option, and emphasizes incident response planning, policy adherence, and cross-team collaboration.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in security operations, leadership, and a strong understanding of incident management, compliance, and continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level.
• Experienced practitioner able to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (3 to 6 years).
• Experience supervising and directing team members and utilizing resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes (1 to 3 years).

Responsibilities

• Lead in detecting and analyzing security incidents, including attacks, breaches, and identified vulnerabilities, and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure.
• Act as the escalation point for complex security events and coordinate with internal teams and external partners.
• Continuously improve detection capabilities through tuning and rule development.
• Collaborate with IT, network, and application teams to enhance threat visibility.
• Lead development and execution of incident response playbooks. Conduct post-incident review processes as needed.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Contribute to the drafting of policies, procedures, and related guidelines within an area of expertise to meet defined key principles and ensure compliance with external requirements.
• Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization’s policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
• Communicate the local action plan; explain how this relates to the function’s strategy and action plan and to the broader organization’s mission and vision; motivate Team Members to achieve local business goals.
• Document “as is” and “to be” processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the “to be” capability to record accurately the change required.
• Support strategy formulation for digital by exploring how information technology within information security domain can be used to help the organization become more responsive to customer needs and changing business requirements.
• Use the organization’s development framework to identify the team’s individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities. Provide training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
• Deliver small- or medium-scale projects while working within an established program management plan.

Skills

Incident detection

Team leadership

Incident response

Policy compliance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Level

Job description

O’Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Security Operations Lead to oversee daily security operations and guide a team of analysts in detecting, responding to, and mitigating cyber threats. The role is onsite in Springfield, MO, with no remote option, and emphasizes incident response planning, policy adherence, and cross-team collaboration.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in security operations, leadership, and a strong understanding of incident management, compliance, and continuous