SOC Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

About The Position

SOC Manager The Opportunity: We are seeking an experienced Security Operations Center (SOC) Project Technical Manager to lead the operations and technical direction of a large-scale government SOC. This role is responsible for managing SOC personnel, driving operational excellence, overseeing SOC analyst functions, and ensuring effective incident response across both on-premises and cloud environments. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in cybersecurity operations, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders. As a SOC Project Technical Manager on our team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for SOC operations and security monitoring functions, and manage technical staff in daily activities. You'll lead the integration, enhancement, and optimization of on-premises and cloud monitoring solutions and collaborate with leadership to communicate risk, program status, major incidents, and roadmap priorities. Additionally, you'll drive process improvement initiatives, automation opportunities, and mission enhancements, ensuring compliance with federal cybersecurity standards, such as NIST, FISMA, and agency policies, and provide guidance on detection engineering, SIEM and SOAR tuning, log management, threat analysis, and security architecture. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in a cybersecurity technical leadership role
7+ years of experience managing a combined on-premises and cloud SOC environment
Experience with incident response or analysis
Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, including monitoring, detection, and analysis, incident response, solutions architecture and engineering, and tools deployment, integration, and support
Knowledge of the integration of threat intelligence, threat hunt, forensics, and malware analysis into security operations
Ability to analyze emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies
Secret clearance
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting federal civilian, DoD, or IC cybersecurity programs
Experience with project management, risk, and compliance
Experience with security analytics and visualization, SIEM tools, and Python
Knowledge of security policies, procedures, processes, and regulations
Knowledge of storage and data management, system virtualization, threat intelligence, and vulnerability assessment
Ability to communicate with management and other technical subject matter experts and operators
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or IT

Responsibilities

managing SOC personnel
driving operational excellence
overseeing SOC analyst functions
ensuring effective incident response across both on-premises and cloud environments
provide strategic and operational leadership for SOC operations and security monitoring functions
manage technical staff in daily activities
lead the integration, enhancement, and optimization of on-premises and cloud monitoring solutions
collaborate with leadership to communicate risk, program status, major incidents, and roadmap priorities
drive process improvement initiatives, automation opportunities, and mission enhancements
ensuring compliance with federal cybersecurity standards, such as NIST, FISMA, and agency policies
provide guidance on detection engineering, SIEM and SOAR tuning, log management, threat analysis, and security architecture