Senior SOC Manager - Top Secret/SCI, Hybrid

Agile Defense; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance

Retirement

Learning and Development

Job summary

Agile Defense in Reston, VA seeks a seasoned Security Operations Center Manager to lead our national-scale SOC. You own the people, processes, and performance, triage alerts, and coordinate incident response across insider threat, threat hunting, and forensics teams.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in cybersecurity, CISSP and GCFA/GREM/GCIH/OSCP/GPEN/GFCE or equivalent, plus active Top Secret with SCI eligibility. This hybrid role offers a clear path to influence and mission impact.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years direct operational and program management experience delivering cybersecurity programs or related projects.
• Minimum of 7+ years professional experience with incident response, insider threat investigations, digital forensics, and cyber threats.
• Minimum of 5 years cybersecurity experience with at least 5 years in a SOC leadership capacity.
• In-depth expertise in SIEM, EDR, incident response methodologies, and understanding of network architectures and security controls.
• Ability to create insider threat dashboards, reports and workflow diagrams, plus data collection, chain of custody, and escalation procedures.

Responsibilities

• Run a SOC that catches what matters and avoids noise.
• Lead and coordinate insider threat, threat hunting, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability assessment functions as a cohesive unit.
• Provide leadership that translates security events into actionable guidance for leadership.
• Develop and follow playbooks and standards that endure under real conditions.

Skills

SOC leadership

Incident response

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Vulnerability assessment

Mentoring

Network security

Communication with leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/STEM or cybersecurity

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Network security

Job description

Agile Defense in Reston, VA seeks a seasoned Security Operations Center Manager to lead our national-scale SOC. You own the people, processes, and performance, triage alerts, and coordinate incident response across insider threat, threat hunting, and forensics teams.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in cybersecurity, CISSP and GCFA/GREM/GCIH/OSCP/GPEN/GFCE or equivalent, plus active Top Secret with SCI eligibility. This hybrid role offers a clear path to influence and mission impact.