Senior SOC Specialist

Barclay Simpson; United States; Remote; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclay Simpson has partnered with a cutting-edge cybersecurity scale-up to recruit a Senior SOC professional capable of leading incident escalation, threat detection, and process improvement. The role supports remote work with preference for candidates based in Florida.

The successful candidate will operate at L2/L3, drive operational security, and work in a fast-paced, stealth-mode environment building AI-driven SOC capabilities. The position offers $180,000 base salary on a remote basis.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in security operations and incident response.
• Strong understanding of SOC workflows.
• Ability to work remotely with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident escalation for security events.
• Improve SOC processes and playbooks to reduce mean time to detect and respond.
• Detect threats and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery actions.

Skills

Incident escalation

Threat detection

Process improvement

Job description

I’m exclusively partnering with a cutting-edge, stealth mode Cyber Security scale up company who are at the forefront of innovation, building next-generation AI-driven SOC capabilities.

This Senior SOC role is ideal for professionals operating at L2/L3 level who thrive in: incident escalation, process improvement and threat detection.

This role can be remote but ideally candidates will be based around Florida.

$180,000 base / REMOTE

*Please note this client cannot sponsor*