Security Operations Lead - Incident Response & Mentorship

McCarthy Building Companies Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. seeks a Security Operations Team Lead to oversee daily operations, guide engineers, and coordinate with MDR providers to ensure rapid detection and response. The role partners with Security Engineering, IT, and end users to maintain strong security postures and operational readiness.

You will mentor staff, triage alerts, participate in incident response, and help improve playbooks, metrics, and security awareness across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of cybersecurity, security operations, or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years of people / project management preferred.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating technical personnel.
• Experience with security monitoring, endpoint protection, identity security, incident response, threat hunting, or related disciplines.
• Experience working with a managed security or managed detection and response provider preferred.
• Support experience in operations and high ticket / call volume.
• Hands on experience and in-depth knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure, endpoints, identity, networks, applications, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and prioritize daily work and projects of the Security Operations team.
• Serve as the first escalation point for security alerts, tickets, investigations, and operational issues.
• Coach, develop, and support Security Operations Engineers.
• Provide hands-on assistance with alert triage, investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and high-priority operational tasks.
• Oversee day-to-day coordination with MDR providers, including alert review, escalations, tuning, and service quality.
• Lead and/or participate in incident response activities (Detect, Respond, Recover).
• Help maintain and improve security operations playbooks, procedures, escalation paths, and documentation.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and work tracking.
• Participate in the security operations on-call schedule.
• Support security assessments, audits, vulnerability remediation, policy development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Create and track relevant metrics for continuous improvement.
• Conduct third party security / vendor reviews.
• Contribute to improving the Cyber Safety culture at McCarthy, including phishing campaigns and security awareness training.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

Leadership

Project management

MDR coordination

Documentation

Communication

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Job description

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. seeks a Security Operations Team Lead to oversee daily operations, guide engineers, and coordinate with MDR providers to ensure rapid detection and response. The role partners with Security Engineering, IT, and end users to maintain strong security postures and operational readiness.

You will mentor staff, triage alerts, participate in incident response, and help improve playbooks, metrics, and security awareness across the organization.