Senior Cyber Defense & SOC Lead — Remote

justmarkets; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 days vacation

10 sick days

Public holidays

Medical budget

Remote work

Education budget

Language learning budget

Wellness budget

Job summary

justmarkets is seeking a seasoned Cyber Defense leader to own execution across SOC, incident response, and remediation. You will lead alert triage, escalation standards, and incident command, coordinating with IT, Platform, Product, GRC, Legal, and business owners during incidents.

You will build and mentor the Cyber Defense team, drive improvements in detection coverage and playbooks, and report performance to security leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in information security
• 3+ years in security management or team lead role with people management
• Hands-on experience managing SOC operations and incident command
• Ability to design, validate, and maintain detection logic across SIEM/EDR/cloud
• Knowledge of ATT&CK and top attack scenarios
• Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities using CVSS and asset criticality
• Experience with enterprise SIEM and SOAR tooling
• Understanding of IAM/PAM/SSO and cloud security controls

Responsibilities

• Own Cyber Defense execution across SOC, detection engineering, incident response, and exposure remediation
• Lead alert triage quality, escalation standards, incident command, and response coordination
• Prioritize critical vulnerabilities and exposures using asset criticality, exploitability, and business impact
• Manage Cyber Defense dashboards, runbooks, remediation follow-up, and operational metrics
• Coordinate with IT, Platform, Product, GRC, Legal, and business owners during incidents and remediation
• Build and develop the Cyber Defense team, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and retaining security talent
• Drive continuous improvement of detection coverage, response playbooks, and security controls based on lessons learned and threat intelligence
• Report on Cyber Defense performance, incidents, and risk posture to security leadership and stakeholders

Skills

Security leadership

Incident command

Threat detection

SIEM/EDR expertise

Cloud security

Communication to executives

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Chronicle

Elastic

Job description

justmarkets is seeking a seasoned Cyber Defense leader to own execution across SOC, incident response, and remediation. You will lead alert triage, escalation standards, and incident command, coordinating with IT, Platform, Product, GRC, Legal, and business owners during incidents.

You will build and mentor the Cyber Defense team, drive improvements in detection coverage and playbooks, and report performance to security leadership.