Manager, Security Operations Center, UK

Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
3 weeks ago
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Reports to: Director of Security Operations Center

Location: Remote UK

Compensation Range: £100,000 to £115,000 base plus bonus and equity

What We Do:

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating under-resourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

What You’ll Do:

The Huntress Security Operations Center is a global team of security analysts dedicated to investigating and responding to incidents on our partners' networks 24/7, 365 days a year. Daily activities consist of providing investigation, containment, and response actions across millions of endpoints.

This role is accountable for defining and streamlining processes, workflows, and playbooks that enable effective day-to-day operations. As Huntress continues to grow, we are laser-focused on being able to scale our operations. This position is responsible for enabling analysts to meet our mission and to achieve internal Service Level Objectives for response times. The Security Operations Manager will work with their peer regional managers to ensure consistent global operations while providing our analyst team with rapid training opportunities and career growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and enforce internal processes to reduce toil and increase the productivity of the operations center.
  • Manage and enforce local/global shift coverage to ensure 24/7 operations are maintained 365 days a year.
  • Meet with analysts in a 1:1 setting weekly to socialize focus initiatives, gather feedback, provide feedback, and enable analysts to progress rapidly in their career.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of analyst training programs designed to streamline onboarding and advance analyst skill sets in Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Malware Analysis, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, and Automation.
  • Work with the Product organizations to prioritize the creation of new capabilities designed to augment and force multiple analyst capabilities.
  • Maintain accountability for routine quality assurance for your designated region.
  • Engage with our Support organization to create streamlined workflows for partner/customer requests that need Security Operations Center analysis.
  • Provide technical leadership for analysts of the Security Operations Center analysts.
  • Ensure team members fully understand the goals and objectives of Huntress’ mission and how their work fits into the bigger picture.
  • Provide key input and guidance to company stakeholders such as Marketing, Sales, Support, and Product.
  • Develop, track, and report on Objectives and Key Results linked to Security Operations Center focus initiatives.
  • Help operationalize new technologies and services that Huntress brings to market.
  • Participate in public speaking engagements in both webinar and in-person formats.

What You Bring To The Team:

  • Experience in leading cybersecurity teams with diverse skills and backgrounds in one or more of the following areas: Security Operations, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Malware Analysis, Threat Hunting, or Detection Engineering.
  • 4+ years of Security Analyst experience working in a global 24x7 security operations center with a focus on Windows forensics.
  • 1+ year of team lead or managerial experience in a global operations center or Incident Response role.
  • Actively engaged in the information security community by attending conferences or contributing to conversations/projects in the public domain.
  • Continually learning and staying up to date on the latest threat actor tradecraft, detection techniques, and security operations concepts.
  • Ability to identify workflows being performed and create detailed process diagrams and operating procedures.
  • Effective communicator of highly technical concepts to stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds.
  • Experience using platforms such as Elasticsearch or Splunk to analyze and review data at scale.
  • Demonstrated experience leading initiatives or projects that required delegation and accountability to achieve success.
  • Data-driven approach with experience in Data Science concepts.
  • Experience with Time-Series analysis concepts, which can be applied to Operations Center focused metrics and forecasting.

What We Offer:

  • 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015.
  • New starter home office set up reimbursement (£398).
  • Generous personal leave entitlements.
  • Travel to the US 1-2 times/year for various company events.
  • Pension.
  • Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth.

Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.

We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit small businesses.

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