Senior Global SOC & Incident Response Leader

102 Crane Company; Stamford (CT); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health

Wellness incentives

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Bonus programs

Job summary

Crane Company is seeking a Senior Manager, Security Operations & Incident Response to lead our SOC and IR program. This hands-on leader will shape the operating model, mentor a distributed team, and coordinate across Global Information Security, IT, and business units to deliver security outcomes worldwide.

You will act as incident commander for high-severity investigations, drive automation, and advance detection across endpoints, networks, cloud, and identity telemetry.

Qualifications

• 7+ years relevant professional experience in security operations and incident response.
• 3+ years managing or leading others in a security operations/incident response context.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the SOC and incident response program.
• Serve as incident commander for high-severity investigations, coordinating cross-functional response and driving clear decisions, timelines, and communications.
• Lead and develop a distributed team of analysts/engineers; build a culture of learning, quality, and operational excellence.
• Own detection and response capability across endpoint, network, cloud, SaaS, and identity telemetry; tune to reduce noise.
• Define, maintain, and test playbooks/runbooks and escalation paths; drive readiness via exercises.
• Drive automation and orchestration (SOAR) to streamline triage and response; integrate systems.
• Guide AI-assisted workflows with governance and analyst enablement.
• Manage SOC tooling, service partnerships, and performance with measurable SLAs.
• Develop program metrics and executive-ready reporting; track improvements in speed and quality.
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, HR, GRC, Risk Management, and IT to align response processes and communications.

Skills

SOC leadership

Incident response

SIEM engineering

SOAR / automation

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud security

Windows administration

Linux administration

Executive communications

Education

Degree in a related field

CISSP / CISM / GIAC certification

Tools

SOAR platforms

SIEM tools

Job description

Crane Company is seeking a Senior Manager, Security Operations & Incident Response to lead our SOC and IR program. This hands-on leader will shape the operating model, mentor a distributed team, and coordinate across Global Information Security, IT, and business units to deliver security outcomes worldwide.

You will act as incident commander for high-severity investigations, drive automation, and advance detection across endpoints, networks, cloud, and identity telemetry.