Cyber SOC Manager

1 week ago

Gauteng, South Africa Avatar Recruitment Full time

Our client is based in the UK, South Africa and the US and offers independent cyber security services. Their consultative and unique 360-degree coverage approach surfaces risks, so that they continually deliver on improving your security posture.

**The role**:
Head of SOC/MDR is responsible for leading a 24x7 team of security analysts for our global clients. The Head of SOC/MDR will own the overall strategy to deliver the company vision of a “Learning SOC”, the company “Learning SOC” consists of 4 pillars:

- Threat Intelligence
- Light Incident Response
- Engineering
- Development & Automation

The “Learning SOC” is the Core point that is the evolving in the centre of the 4 pillars, Head of SOC is a visible senior role at the company and must be able to understand the contributing elements to a successful industry leading Security Operations

**Requirements**:

- Matric / University Degree in Information Security and/ or a **minimum of 8 years **related practical SOC experience.
- Industry Certifications or equivalent experience CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH/OSCP, CHFI (desired)
- Prior experience working in a 24x7x365 SOC/CSIRT for **at least 8 years.**
- Product Certifications in EDR, SOAR, SIEM, Security Analytics, AV, Log Management
- Strong knowledge of security standards including ISO27001, ASD, PCI DSS, CREST
- Experience with CREST Certifications and Accreditation (Beneficial)
- Proven skills in leading a CSOC functional unit for **at least 5years.**
- Experience in building and establishing SOC systems, functions and processes is advantageous
- Experience leveraging a SOAR platform to aid in gaining repeatable, quality and efficient outputs
- Have Completed Leadership training
- Must have the ability to understand large, complex systems and be able to focus on specific details or subsystems, their vulnerabilities, and linkages.
- Extensive experience dealing with and/or managing teams in malware, attack vectors and the ability to perform pattern analysis.
- Requires basic knowledge of hardware / software architecture and domains in IT operations with a focus on governance, risk and compliance.
- Excellent familiarity with the current Threat Landscape and Cyber Attack Methodologies
- Previous experience in one of the following security areas: CSOC Analyst, Malware Researcher, Threat Analyst, Incident Response - **3 years minimum**
- Proven experience in threat analysis and responding to incidents.
- Proven experience in cyber threat intelligence
- Proven experience of the development of a future driven, market related roadmap for SOC
- Proven experience of delivery against set roadmap

**Responsibilities (including but not limited to)**:

- Translate the vision and mission set by executive leadership into a scalable and repeatable service offering.
- Develop strategy and implementation for revenue and productivity growth worldwide.
- Leading and managing the Security Operations and team of security operational staff members.
- Primarily responsible for directing security event monitoring, management and response
- Aligning to VP of Cyber Intelligence and platforms for TI requirements, and implementation/leveraging of toolsets, feeds and insights into production to support and reduce MTTD and advise clients on mitigations
- Ensuring incident identification, assessment, quantification, reporting, communication, mitigation, and monitoring
- Ensuring compliance to policy, process, and procedure adherence and process improvisation to achieve operational objectives.
- Revising and develop processes to strengthen the current Security Operations Framework, review policies and highlight the challenges in managing SLAs.
- Ensure all business and operational processes are executed with efficiency and quality and ensure all service SLAs are met.

**Technical knowledge**:

- Be familiar will current SOC operational methodologies
- Knowledge of NIST 800 - (any SP in the 800 range)
- Knowledge of firewalls, IDS, IPS, VLANS, AD, LDAP, routers, and switches
- Knowledge of SIEM & SOAR technologies
- Knowledge of root cause analysis and escalation procedures Knowledge of CVE, Google Hacking, and threat intelligence
- Knowledge of ITIL
- Knowledge of ISO 27001
- Reporting skills, being able to articulate technical reports into business language to provide situational awareness and specialist advisory.
- CISSP
- OSCP
- SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Project and process management Experienced in CREST accreditation
- Leadership
- Team player and Team building (creation of a cohesive division)
- Setting goals and priorities for others and prioritisation for self
- Adopting and accepting the organisation's professional standards
- Awareness and consistency in c managerial style
- Structured thinking
- Positive attitude and a willingness to learn)
- Individual thinking within the current role
- Collaboration - willingness and ability to collaborate with other Team Leaders / Supervisors
- Action oriented - productio

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