Lead SOC Analyst

Job Title: Tier 3 SOC Analyst x2

Location: Charlotte, NC- 5 days a week

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire

Position Overview:

Tier-3 Team Lead SOC Analyst sets and enforces operational standards, coordinates shift activities, delegates administrative and operational tasks, and serves as the primary local SOC contact in a multi-location SOC environment. The role he Lead Analyst drives continuous improvement across people, process, and technology to strengthen detection, response, and reporting outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure consistent incident handling across multiple SOC locations through standardize procedures and communication
• Lead daily operations such as threat briefings, queue health checks, and high-severity incident oversight
• Serve as final escalation for complex investigations (multi-stage intrusions, lateral movement, persistence, data exfiltration)
• Lead containment/eradication strategy in partnership with IT, Cloud, Endpoint, and Network teams
• Perform root-cause analysis and produce actionable remediation guidance
• Coach Tier 1/2 analysts on investigation techniques, log analysis, and response playbooks
• Integrate AI?driven detections and response

Required Technical Skills

• 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Ability to lead and coordinate in a multi-location / follow-the-sun SOC model
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences
• Calm, structured decision-making during high-pressure incidents
• Strong case management discipline and evidence-based analysis
• Incident response experience handling high-severity events end-to-end (containment through recovery)
• Solid understanding of common attacker techniques: phishing, ransomware, C2, privilege escalation, lateral movement, exfiltration
• EDR/XDR proficiency: triage, remote response actions, artifact collection
• Familiar with AI-assisted attacks including deepfakes and social-engineering at scale