Regional Manager of Security Operations

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Role Description:

• As a Regional Team Lead of Incident Response & Security Operations, you will be a key member of our collaborative security team, working alongside other security professionals to protect our organization from sophisticated cyberattacks. In this "player-coach" role, you will act as the senior technical expert and operational guide for your region’s Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.
• You will be a hands-on practitioner, working alongside your team to hunt for threats, analyze alerts, and lead the technical response to security incidents.
• The ideal candidate has a strong background in hands-on security analysis, a talent for mentoring others, and the composure to lead technical investigations under pressure. You will be the primary escalation point for the SOC, ensuring the team's work is effective, efficient, and continuously improving our ability to defend the organization.

Responsibilities:

Your main tasks:

• Incident Response: Assist with all major security incidents, coordinating global and regional efforts during security incidents and investigations.
• Security Operations: Oversee regional operations of the Security Operations Center (SOC), ensuring timely and effective analysis of security alerts.
• Identify areas of improvement through automation and new processes. Improve the development and tuning of detection rules, analytics, and correlation logic to improve alert fidelity. Lead threat response and proactive vulnerability/threat notifications.
• Strategic Leadership: Contribute to the comprehensive enterprise information security strategy, roadmap, and architecture in alignment with business objectives.
• Work with management to drive program and projects amongst your team. 
• Team Management & Development: Lead, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of security analysts, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning. Manage team schedules, conduct performance reviews, and guide career development for team members.
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including system architecture diagrams, data flow diagrams, log source configurations, alert rationale, and incident response procedures. Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior security analysts.
• Collaboration & Communication: Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. Interface with other IT teams (network, systems, application development, etc.) to ensure security is integrated throughout the infrastructure.
• Strategic Planning & Budgeting: Collaborate with leadership on strategic planning, budget forecasting, and resource allocation.

Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in information security, with a strong focus on security.
• Significant experience with at least one enterprise-grade SIEM platform (e.g., Devo, Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, ArcSight).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Regular Expressions) for automation and data manipulation.
• Familiarity with various operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of common security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Devo, Devo SOAR, and/or LogicHub
• Advanced programming/coding in one or more languages (C#, Python, etc).
• Understanding of security concepts, including network security, endpoint security, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), firewalls, and vulnerability management.
• Manufacturing and/or engineering industry experience.
• Experience working in a large global organization.