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ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

The hiring process for this role involves completing your Braintrust profile, applying directly to the role on Braintrust, and undergoing a one-time screening to ensure you meet our vetted talent specifications. After this, the hiring team will contact you directly if they believe you are a suitable match.

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  • JOB TYPE: Direct Hire/FTE (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
  • LOCATION: United States only - PST/PDT/CIST, CST/CDT, MST/MDT, EST/EDT | Full day overlap
  • RATE: $150k-$160k /yr
  • ESTIMATED DURATION: 40/week - long term
  • BRAINTRUST JOB ID: 9090

The Opportunity

Requirements

Our client's commitment to data security and privacy is at the forefront of everything we do. To help us protect our company and our customers’ data security and privacy, we’re looking for a strong Cyber Security Operations Lead. This role will report to the CISO and will lead threat intelligence, cyber security Incident response team (CSIRT), cyber security operations center (CSOC), and red team operations. 

Responsibilities for this role

  • Lead effective security operations with threat intelligence, CSIRT, CSOC, and red team operations.

  • Provide monthly security metrics to senior management.

  • Develop incident response plans to include ransomware response and ransomware communication plans.

  • Write annual plans and manage security operations budget for security operations teams.

  • Plan and build additional security capabilities in the security operations team.

  • Plan and execute monthly and quarterly incident response training exercises.

  • Help build best in security operations to be showcased to clients.

  • Lead, mentor and build developmental growth for security operations team members.

 

What you’ll be working on

Required skills and qualifications

  • 5+ years of security operations leadership experience to include major incident response commander or watch commander experience, and ransomware incident response commander experience.

  • CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CISAI security certifications (at least two of these).

  • Ability to build and lead a high-performance security operations team from the ground up.

  • Competent with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Bash)

  • Competent with Security Information Event Management (SIEM) platforms such as Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL), and Azure Sentinel and Kusto Query language for executing search queries.

  • Competent in Azure Sentinel SIEM and SOAR operations.

  • Competent with incident response frameworks from MITRE, NIST, and SANS.

  • Project management experience in deploying security controls to Developer, User Acceptance Testing(UAT), and Production, and Disaster Recovery operating environments.

Preferred skills and qualifications

  • Bachelor of science degree (or equivalent) in computer science, engineering, technology, or relevant field.

  • Prior security operations team lead experience working in banking, financial services, or mortgage companies.

 

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Notes:

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications. For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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