SOC Operations Leader — Incident Response & Insight

Agile Defense, Inc.; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus $10,000

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability (short-term and long-term)

Retirement plan

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. in Ashburn, VA is seeking a Security Operations Center Manager to lead the 24/7 SOC that protects critical national security missions.

You will own people, processes, and performance, triage alerts, prioritize work, and ensure operations run as a cohesive unit across specialists. Preferred candidates have led SOCs in federal or highly regulated environments and hold active CBP BI or equivalent clearance.

Qualifications

• You have run a security operations center or equivalent detection and response function.
• You have managed a team through a real incident and can describe what you would do differently.
• You have reported security posture and incidents to non-technical leadership and can describe what changed in how you communicate because of it.
• You have worked inside a federal or highly regulated security program and know what that adds to the job beyond the technical work.
• You hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.
• You are comfortable across the disciplines your team covers, insider threat, threat hunting, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability assessment, even where you are not the deepest technical expert in each.
• Certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, or CISM are useful, but they are not a substitute for having run the function.

Responsibilities

• Run the SOC and own its people, process, and performance: how alerts get triaged and work is prioritized.
• Coordinate with leads who run insider threat monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability assessment.
• Ensure the SOC functions as one operation and identify where a function is under strain.
• Provide leadership with an accurate picture of the SOC’s performance and program exposure.
• Develop and improve standards and playbooks to guide recurring work under real conditions.

Skills

SOC management

Incident response

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Vulnerability assessment

Security leadership

CBP BI clearance

CISSP

GCIH

CISM

Job description

Agile Defense, Inc. in Ashburn, VA is seeking a Security Operations Center Manager to lead the 24/7 SOC that protects critical national security missions.

You will own people, processes, and performance, triage alerts, prioritize work, and ensure operations run as a cohesive unit across specialists. Preferred candidates have led SOCs in federal or highly regulated environments and hold active CBP BI or equivalent clearance.