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Manager / Sr. Manager, SecOps & Cyber Defense

New York💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$185,000🗓 2026-08-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and actively drive 24/7 security detection and response capabilities for a global digital asset platform, managing SOC analysts and incident responders while performing hands-on technical execution.

Role type

Manager / Sr. Manager, SecOps & Cyber Defense

Builds

High-efficacy detection engineering pipelines, automated response playbooks, and threat hunting capabilities across cloud and hybrid infrastructure.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Digital Assets, Financial Services

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

SOC operations leadership, incident response management, cloud-native threat investigation (AWS/GCP/Azure), container security (Kubernetes/Docker), SIEM/EDR/XDR administration, digital forensics, threat hunting, SOAR automation, Python/Bash/Go scripting, network protocol analysis, identity systems management.

Preferred skills

Financial Services/FinTech experience, regulatory audit standards knowledge (SOC 2, ISO 27001, SEC/FINRA), industry certifications (GIAC, CISSP, OSCP), Red/Purple team operations.

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a distributed team of SOC analysts and incident responders; serve as primary escalation point for high-severity incidents; design and tune detection rules for SIEM/EDR/Cloud logs; perform hands-on digital forensics and reverse-engineering; conduct threat research on emerging TTPs and zero-days; lead Red/Purple team exercises and tabletop drills; proactively hunt for undetected threats; build automated response playbooks using Python and SOAR tools.

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC with people management

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