Exciting SOC Manager career opportunity in Houston, TX. The role requires 6 plus years of hands-on experience in Security Operations Centers (SOC), with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role. The SOC Manager will manage a 24/7 team of security professionals to detect, monitor, respond, and remediate threats using Splunk SIEM. Day to day operation activities will involve oversight and acting as the point of contact for Incident response and forensic activities. The manager will also provide teaching and mentoring to SOC Tier 1/2/3 Analysts, including incident response functions. Additionally, the role includes coordinating staff schedules and resolving scheduling gaps in coverage. The SOC Manager must stay current with and remain knowledgeable about new threats, analyze attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) from security events across a large heterogeneous network of security devices and end-user systems, and submit recommendations for enhancements to the Manager. Ensuring consistently high levels of staff performance by implementing policies and procedures is also a key responsibility, along with tracking and reporting on the status of pending, implemented, or rejected tickets in the biweekly management meetings.