Security Engineering Manager

Job Description

ECS is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to work remotely.

At ECS Federal, we're driven by a commitment to excellence and innovation in solving complex challenges. As a premier provider of advanced technology solutions and services, our mission is to secure and optimize the most critical commercial, government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. Our team is composed of dynamic professionals who thrive in a collaborative and empowering environment, where our team members leverage the latest technologies and insights to make a real-world impact. Join us and be part of a forward-thinking organization that values your expertise and supports your professional growth.

The Security Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the security engineering function that supports the Everforth Security Operations Center (SOC). This role oversees the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the technologies, detections, telemetry pipelines, and automation capabilities that enable effective enterprise security monitoring and incident detection. The Security Engineering Manager ensures the reliability, scalability, and operational effectiveness of SOC technology platforms and detection capabilities. This role reports directly to the SOC Director and works closely with the SOC Manager, enterprise IT teams, and platform owners to maintain enterprise visibility and continuously improve the organization's detection and response capabilities.

R esponsibilities

• Security Platform Management : Oversee the operation, maintenance, and optimization of core SOC security platforms including SIEM, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and related security monitoring technologies.
• Security Telemetry Integration : Ensure enterprise security telemetry sources are properly onboarded, normalized, and integrated into the SOC monitoring environment.
• SIEM Operations : Manage the performance, reliability, and data pipelines associated with the SIEM platform, ensuring high availability and effective data ingestion across enterprise environments.
• Security Automation Development : Lead the implementation of automation and orchestration capabilities to improve investigation efficiency and reduce manual analyst workload.
• Engineering Support for Investigations : Provide technical expertise and engineering support to SOC analysts during complex investigations and incident response activities.
• Technology Roadmap Development : Develop and maintain the SOC security technology roadmap to support evolving enterprise security monitoring requirements.
• Integration with Enterprise Systems : Work closely with enterprise IT, cloud engineering, and infrastructure teams to integrate new systems, applications, and platforms into SOC monitoring.
• Operational Reliability : Ensure SOC technology platforms operate with high reliability, appropriate data retention, and strong performance across enterprise telemetry sources.
• Engineering Documentation : Maintain technical documentation for detection logic, telemetry pipelines, automation workflows, and SOC platform architecture.
• Team Leadership and Development : Lead and mentor the security engineering team responsible for SOC platform operations and detection development.

Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000

General Description of Benefits

Required Skills

• Experience : Minimum of 10 years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience, with significant experience supporting large enterprise security programs .
• Engineering Leadership Experience : Demonstrated experience managing security engineering, detection engineering, or security platform engineering teams.
• Security Platform Expertise : Strong experience managing enterprise security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, and security telemetry pipelines.
• Security Architecture Knowledge : Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, logging strategies, and monitoring coverage across infrastructure, cloud, and identity platforms.
• Security Automation Knowledge : Experience implementing automation workflows to improve SOC operational efficiency.
• Operational Reliability Management : Experience managing platform performance, data ingestion pipelines, and monitoring infrastructure at enterprise scale.
• Security Framework Knowledge : Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Critical Security Controls, and ISO 27001.

Other Requirements of the position include:

• Ab l e and willing to obtain a US Security Clearance .
• This role may require occasional on-call support during off-hours to respond to security incidents.

Desired Skills

• Cloud Security Monitoring : Experience integrating cloud platforms and SaaS environments into enterprise security monitoring.
• Threat Intelligence Integration : Experience integrating cyber threat intelligence (CTI) into sec urity tooling .
• Security Data Engineering : Knowledge of security data pipelines, log normalization, and large-scale telemetry ingestion.
• Enterprise Security Platform Architecture : Experience designing scalable SOC technology architectures for large enterprise environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills , with the ability to handle complex security challenges and think like an adversary
• Strong communication skills , with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3 2 00+ employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.