Director, Security Operations Center

Job Summary

The Director of the Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading and managing the organization’s cybersecurity monitoring and incident response operations. This role oversees a team of security analysts, engineers, and incident responders to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise systems and data. The SOC Director will develop strategies, implement technologies, and coordinate responses to security threats and incidents.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day SOC operations including monitoring, detection, analysis, and incident response.
• Develop and maintain SOC policies, procedures, and playbooks aligned with frameworks like NIST, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Oversee deployment, tuning, and optimization of SIEM, SOAR, IDS / IPS, EDR, and threat intel platforms.
• Coordinate cross-functional incident response and lead post-incident reviews.
• Work with IT, legal, compliance, and business units to align with risk management goals.
• Monitor emerging threats and adjust defenses and strategies proactively.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop SOC staff, fostering continuous improvement.
• Prepare and present SOC performance, threat landscape, and risk posture to executives.
• Ensure SOC operations meet standards like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001.

Qualifications

Education Required :

Experience Required :

Experience Preferred :

Licenses / Certifications Required :

Technical Skills and Abilities

Physical Demands :

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

By applying, you consent to your information being transmitted by JobGet to the Employer, as data controller, through the Employer’s data processor SonicJobs.

See SYSCO Privacy Policy at https : / / sysco.com / Privacy-Notice.html? and SonicJobs Privacy Policy at https : / / www.sonicjobs.com / us / privacy-policy and Terms of Use at https : / / www.sonicjobs.com / us / terms-conditions