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Manager Cyber Risk Management - AI Integration into SOC
SALARY: $230K - $250K FLEX plus 20% bonus
LOCATION: REMOTE except Washington DC, AK, ND, NEW, HI, OK, VT, ME, WY, NH, Puerto Rico
You will manage 6 people over the cyber defense platforms, analytics automation SIEM Soar x incident response, threat, forensics investigations, azure cloud python. AI/ML is key. Need a strategist who can plan and decide how does AI drive the infrastructure, the data, the SOC. Not an Operational role. More on the side of engineering, strategizing how can AI benefit the department architecture implementation not just a user of AI. Someone who can build AI and integrate AI into the SOC.
This role is critical to advancing our cyber defense capabilities into a future state defined by automation, AI augmentation, and rapid, effective response. The manager will lead the engineering team responsible for the platforms, data, analytics, and automation capabilities that protect the organization by ensuring cyber threats are identified and neutralized before business impact occurs. This role is responsible for defining and executing the technology roadmap that enables scalable, resilient, and effective threat detection and response capabilities.
This individual will lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for detection engineering, platform implementation and administration (e.g., SIEM, EDR, NDR, IPS), and agentic and deterministic automation and orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the cyber threat management engineering strategy, driving transformation toward highly automated, AI-augmented cyber operations.
- Translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps, aligning team priorities with enterprise cyber risk management goals.
- Drive measurable improvements in operational effectiveness and reduction of risk impact.
- Ensure platform resilience, scalability, and alignment with evolving attack surfaces (cloud, SaaS, AI-driven environments).
- Champion the continued adoption of AI, machine learning, and automation to enable autonomous investigation and response capabilities.
- Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation to improve cyber defense capabilities.
- Mentor team members to develop expertise in emerging threats, AI-enabled security, and modern cyber defense techniques.
- Partner with Incident Response, Enterprise Architecture, and other stakeholders to design and execute effective security measures.
- Define and track key performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of risk event management services.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity, cyber risk management, or security operations, with at least 1 year in leadership roles.
- Strong expertise in cyber engineering and security operations disciplines, including detection engineering, platform engineering and operations, and Security Automation, Orchestration, and Response (SOAR).
- Proven experience leading transformation initiatives involving people, processes, and technology.
- Deep understanding of enterprise security platforms such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, and cloud security tools.
- Experience applying automation, orchestration, and AI/ML to cybersecurity operations.
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Lead large-scale engineering and operational capabilities.
- Build and manage high-performing technical teams.
- Align technical capabilities with business risk and outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement using metrics and performance insights.
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