What are the responsibilities and job description for the SOC Manager position at Leidos?
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Job Description
1901 Group (A Leidos Company) has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager with strong technical and leadership skills to join our team. In this role, you’ll lead a team to protect our customer's information systems from cyber threats. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cybersecurity, knowledge of federal government requirements, experience managing a SOC team, and knowledge of various security tools, technologies, and processes.
Responsibilities include:
• Lead the day-to-day operations of the SOC including senior-level technical subject matter expertise in areas such as vulnerability assessment, threat hunting, incident response, and penetration testing
• Ensure security incidents and events are identified, analyzed, and resolved in an effective manner
• Lead security tools implementation, customization, and maintenance.
• Develop and continually improve operating procedures that enable staff to proactively manage risk
• Recommend security controls to protect information systems based on ongoing reviews of security incidents, vulnerabilities, and threats
• Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure security requirements are met and provide on-time security reporting.
• Expertly collaborate across multiple disciplines and levels of the organization
• Manage and conduct hands-on technical analysis as a supplement to Incident Response and Forensics Teams during high-visibility or high-workload investigations
• Mentor staff and maintain standard operating procedures
• Create job descriptions for new positions and manage annual performance plans for the SOC team
• Provide guidance and leadership to the SOC team for technology solutions related to the services that the team operates
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of prior relevant experience; must have 5 years of SOC experience; additional work experience or training/certifications may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• Advanced critical-thinking and research skills, and experience with proactive threat hunting and mitigation beyond traditional detection methods
• In-depth knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, CSF, and Executive Orders
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, with effective verbal and written communications to both technical and executive stakeholders and proven ability to lead during a crisis
• Demonstrated commitment to training, self-study, and maintaining proficiency in the technical cyber security domain and an ability to think and work independently.
• Experience managing 24x7 shift schedules
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain agency clearance
Preferred Qualifications
• Advanced certifications involving operation, maintenance, administration of at least one enterprise SIEM platform (e.g. Splunk, LogRhythm, Elastic).
• Unix/Linux command line experience.
• Windows Powershell experience.
• Scripting and programming experience.
• Reverse engineering experience
• Motivated self-starter and the ability to create complex technical reports on analytic findings.
• Experience and proficiency with any of the following: Anti-Virus, HIPS/HBSS, IDS/IPS, Full Packet Capture, Network Forensics.
• Understanding and experience of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Pay Range:
Pay Range $118,300.00 - $213,850.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
Salary : $118,300 - $213,850
