Cyber Offense, SOC, and IR Lead

Altera•San Jose, CA

12h•$149,100 - $215,925•Onsite

About The Position

As the Cyber Offense, SOC, and Incident Response Lead, you will lead the day-to-day operations and continued evolution of our global Security Operations Center (SOC) and incident response capabilities. You will serve as a key leader within the cybersecurity organization, responsible for ensuring the organization can effectively detect, investigate, contain, and respond to cyber threats across endpoints, identities, cloud environments, networks, and critical enterprise systems. This role combines security operations leadership, incident response, detection engineering, and continuous improvement. You will establish and mature SOC processes, response playbooks, escalation procedures, operational metrics, and global handoff models while working closely with security engineering, IT, cloud, identity, threat intelligence, and other cross-functional teams. You will lead the response to significant security incidents, coordinate investigations and incident communications, and help drive the organization toward faster and more consistent detection and containment. You will also leverage automation, SOAR capabilities, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned detection strategies to improve the effectiveness and scalability of the SOC. The ideal candidate is a strong cybersecurity operations leader who can operate effectively in high-pressure environments, translate complex security events into clear business decisions, and continuously improve how an organization detects and responds to threats. Experience leading SOC or incident response teams in a global enterprise environment, particularly within a technology, semiconductor, or intellectual property-intensive organization, is highly valued.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including significant hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, or SOC leadership.
3+ years of experience leading SOC analysts, incident response teams, managed security operations, or cross-functional cyber defense workflows.
Strong working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud security monitoring, identity security, email security, network security, and incident response processes.
Demonstrated experience building or improving detection use cases, alert triage workflows, response playbooks, escalation procedures, and SOC metrics.
Experience coordinating investigations involving phishing, malware, endpoint compromise, suspicious authentication, privileged access misuse, data exposure, and cloud security events.
Familiarity with frameworks and standards such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-61, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, or equivalent cyber defense frameworks.
Ability to communicate clearly with technical teams, business stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners during security incidents.
Strong analytical, documentation, prioritization, and decision-making skills in high-pressure operational environments.
CISSP, Security+, or equivalent industry certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience operating or transforming a global SOC in an enterprise environment.
Experience working as an Incident Commander, leading IR execution for the company.
Experience working with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, KQLs, UEBA, or comparable security operations platforms.
Experience with cloud security monitoring across Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
Experience with threat hunting, purple-team collaboration, adversary emulation, or detection engineering.
Experience managing managed detection and response providers or outsourced SOC services.
Experience in semiconductor, technology, manufacturing, or intellectual property-intensive environments.
Familiarity with GenAI-assisted SOC workflows, including alert enrichment, analyst productivity, incident summarization, and security automation.
Additional certifications such as CEH, or similar.

Responsibilities

Lead daily SOC operations across monitoring, alert triage, investigation, escalation, incident response coordination, and operational handoff across global time zones.
Own and mature SOC operating procedures, including incident intake, severity classification, escalation paths, response playbooks, major incident communications, and post-incident reviews.
Manage and improve security monitoring across SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, email security, cloud security, identity security, vulnerability signals, network telemetry, and threat intelligence sources.
Build, tune, and continuously improve detection use cases aligned to enterprise risks, MITRE ATT&CK techniques, threat intelligence, audit findings, and business-critical assets.
Partner with security engineering teams to improve log onboarding, data quality, telemetry coverage, alert fidelity, automation, and response integrations.
Lead incident response coordination for security events involving endpoint compromise, identity misuse, phishing, malware, data loss indicators, cloud misconfigurations, suspicious network activity, and unauthorized access attempts.
Establish SOC performance metrics and reporting, including alert volumes, false-positive rates, SLA adherence, escalation quality, mean time to detect, mean time to acknowledge, mean time to contain, and incident trends.
Oversee SOC analyst workflows, shift handoffs, case documentation, evidence handling, and quality assurance reviews.
Coordinate with managed security service providers, internal IT teams, and business stakeholders to ensure timely response and clear ownership of remediation actions.
Support implementation and operationalization of SOAR playbooks, automation workflows, enrichment logic, and incident response runbooks.
Drive continuous improvement through tabletop exercises, incident retrospectives, purple-team findings, threat hunting outputs, and lessons learned.
Maintain alignment with security governance, regulatory, privacy, and audit requirements by ensuring SOC processes are documented, repeatable, measurable, and evidence-ready.
Serve as a security operations lead for global SOC coverage and cross-functional collaboration.