Senior SecOps Lead — Incident Response & Automation

Teya; London (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

25 days annual leave

Hybrid work mode

Visit other Teya offices

Friday lunch

Quality equipment

Autonomy

Job summary

Teya is seeking a SecOps Specialist to protect our platform by leading complex investigations, providing L3 SOC support, and improving core security tooling. You will build automations and integrations to boost speed, consistency, and quality across security operations.

You will collaborate with Security Engineering, IT, Infrastructure, Platform, Cloud, and Product teams to reduce risk and embed security practices across the organization, turning insights into stronger controls.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SOC, incident response, detection engineering, or security engineering.
• Experience leading complex security incidents end-to-end.
• Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR, and security tooling.
• Experience building and tuning detections and queries.
• Experience with log onboarding, telemetry pipelines, and data quality issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end investigation and response of complex security incidents.
• Act as L3 escalation point for SOC analysts and MSSP.
• Coordinate across Security, Engineering, IT, Cloud, Legal, and Compliance during incidents.
• Make clear, risk-based decisions under pressure with strong documentation.
• Maintain playbooks, runbooks, and incident workflows.
• Drive post-incident reviews and ensure improvements are implemented and follow-ups completed.
• Support incident metrics (MTTD, MTTR, recurrence, etc.).
• Operate and improve SIEM, EDR, email security, case management, and vulnerability tools.
• Monitor health, coverage, data quality, and integrations.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, API, and configuration issues.
• Build and maintain integrations between security tools and internal systems.
• Manage upgrades, changes, access reviews, and documentation.
• Apply engineering practices (version control, testing, peer review, rollback).
• Reduce operational toil through automation and simplification.

Skills

SOC leadership

SIEM

EDR

Detection engineering

Automation

Incident response

Threat intelligence

Tools

Jira

Git

Job description

Teya is seeking a SecOps Specialist to protect our platform by leading complex investigations, providing L3 SOC support, and improving core security tooling. You will build automations and integrations to boost speed, consistency, and quality across security operations.

You will collaborate with Security Engineering, IT, Infrastructure, Platform, Cloud, and Product teams to reduce risk and embed security practices across the organization, turning insights into stronger controls.