Senior SOC Engineering & Operations Lead

Peraton; Beltsville (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an Operations Lead – Engineering to serve as the senior technical and operational authority for the SOC's Engineering division in Beltsville, MD. You will oversee the full lifecycle of SOC engineering operations, including systems administration, virtualization platforms, and cloud environments, ensuring security, availability, and compliance for mission-critical systems.

You will lead a team of engineers, manage staffing and surge support, coordinate with analysts and threat

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level direction to SOC engineering staff for 24x7x365 operations.
• Oversee systems administration, patching, hardening, and lifecycle management of servers and security appliances.
• Lead or participate in security tests, evaluations, and studies impacting SOC readiness.
• Develop, maintain, and enforce SOC engineering SOPs, runbooks, and documentation.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to translate cybersecurity needs into actionable solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Incident response

Cloud security

VMware/Hyper-V

ServiceNow

SOC operations

Threat intelligence

Communication

ITIL awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

SIEM (Splunk/ArcSight)

ServiceNow

Job description

Peraton is seeking an Operations Lead – Engineering to serve as the senior technical and operational authority for the SOC's Engineering division in Beltsville, MD. You will oversee the full lifecycle of SOC engineering operations, including systems administration, virtualization platforms, and cloud environments, ensuring security, availability, and compliance for mission-critical systems.

You will lead a team of engineers, manage staffing and surge support, coordinate with analysts and threat