Senior SOC Level 3 Manager - Defensive Cyber Ops

Peraton; Florida; On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Peraton, a leading national security company, seeks a SOC Level 3 Manager to support SITEC 3 EOM at MacDill AFB, Florida. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in defensive cyber operations and coordinate detections, investigations, and threat intelligence efforts to protect critical networks.

The role requires DoD 8140 compliance, a DoD TS/SCI clearance, and Security+ certification, with extensive experience in threat hunting, malware analysis, and digital forensics.

Qualifications

• DoW TS/SCI clearance required
• Security+ certification
• DoW 8140 compliant under Work Role Code 462– Cyber Defense Incident Responder - Advanced
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate security issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience managing a SOC or team of cyber professionals
• Minimum 7 years of technical experience with cyber tools and TTPs

Responsibilities

• Direct proactive, intelligence-driven threat hunting across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application environments to uncover adversary activity that may have evaded existing security controls.
• Provide managerial oversight of host, memory, network, cloud, and other digital forensic investigations, ensuring evidence integrity, analytical quality, and timely operational reporting.
• Direct malware triage, static and dynamic analysis, behavioral analysis, and reverse engineering to identify adversary capabilities and translate findings into actionable intelligence, detections, and countermeasures.
• Lead the development of strategic cyber threat intelligence products aligned with mission priorities, priority intelligence requirements, and emerging adversary threats.
• Guide the responsible adoption of advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic capabilities to improve investigative efficiency, detection coverage, analytical quality, and operational decision-making.
• Direct development, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of advanced detections and countermeasures informed by adversary tradecraft, threat intelligence, incident findings, threat hunts, and Purple Team exercises.
• Integrate SOC Level 3 capabilities with SOC Levels 1 and 2 by establishing clear escalation paths, enabling seamless knowledge transfer, and translating advanced threat findings into actionable triage procedures, detections, playbooks, and response improvements.

Skills

SOC Manager

Threat hunting

Cyber threat intel

Malware analysis

Digital forensics

Advanced analytics

Team leadership

Education

High School Diploma

AS/AA degree

BS/BA

MS/MA

PhD

Job description

Peraton, a leading national security company, seeks a SOC Level 3 Manager to support SITEC 3 EOM at MacDill AFB, Florida. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team in defensive cyber operations and coordinate detections, investigations, and threat intelligence efforts to protect critical networks.

The role requires DoD 8140 compliance, a DoD TS/SCI clearance, and Security+ certification, with extensive experience in threat hunting, malware analysis, and digital forensics.