Senior Cybersecurity Operations Leader

Horry County Government; Conway (SC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Horry County Government is seeking a Security Operations Manager to lead the technical operations of its cybersecurity program in Conway, SC. This hands-on leadership role requires delivering security operations across domains, driving execution, and ensuring protection of county information.

The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day activities, mentor staff, coordinate with departments, and advance the CTEM program with proactive risk reduction in a growing technology environment.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of hands-on experience in security operations, security engineering, or infrastructure and cloud security in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated technical breadth across multiple security and architecture domains, with the depth to lead implementation directly.
• Experience in hybrid environments spanning on-premises infrastructure and public or private cloud.
• Hands-on experience across enterprise security platforms — SIEM, XDR, endpoint and email protection, identity, and cloud-native tooling.
• Proven track record of leading cross-domain technical projects and delivering solutions through to completion across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or providing technical leadership to security or IT professionals.
• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field — or an equivalent combination of education, training, and hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical manager responsible for day-to-day security operations, coordinating priorities and driving execution across security domains.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the County's security operations.
• Lead security technology projects from planning through implementation, ensuring new capabilities are practical, well-integrated, and supportable.
• Drive automation, integration, and process improvement to keep operations efficient and ahead of a growing technology environment.
• Provide day-to-day direction, mentorship, and technical guidance to the security team.
• Partner County departments and agency teams that rely on the Information Technology Department’s security expertise to protect the mission-critical systems they run.
• Advance the County's Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) program — continuously discovering, prioritizing, validating, and reducing exposure across the attack surface, with monitoring and coordinated response run as part of one proactive operation.

Skills

Security operations

Security engineering

Cloud security

Hybrid environments

SIEM

XDR

Endpoint protection

Identity security

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity

Tools

SIEM platforms

XDR platforms

Cloud-native security tooling

Job description

Horry County Government is seeking a Security Operations Manager to lead the technical operations of its cybersecurity program in Conway, SC. This hands-on leadership role requires delivering security operations across domains, driving execution, and ensuring protection of county information.

The successful candidate will oversee day-to-day activities, mentor staff, coordinate with departments, and advance the CTEM program with proactive risk reduction in a growing technology environment.