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We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one.\nCitizenship: U.S. Citizenship required\nLocation: Reston, VA - Hybrid 3 to 5 days\nSalary Range: $155,000-$185,000\nSigning Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply.\nRequired Certification(s): CISSP, and one of the following: GCFA, GREM, GCIH, OSCP, GPEN, GFCE or equivalent preferred.\nThe Role\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. Every system that keeps that mission running, biometric checks against watchlists, apprehension processing, surveillance feeds, is also a target. An intrusion that goes undetected does not just risk data. It risks the same operational capability an outage would take down, except an adversary chose the timing.\nYou run the security operations center that watches for that. You own its people, process, and performance: how alerts get triaged, how work gets prioritized when everything looks urgent at once, and how the center performs as a whole rather than as a collection of individual analysts. You will work closely with the leads who run insider threat monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and vulnerability assessment, and you are accountable for how well those functions work together, not just how well each one works alone.\nOne thing is worth knowing before you apply. A SOC that catches everything but cannot tell leadership what happened in terms they can act on has not actually done its job. Managing up and out is as much a part of this role as managing the floor.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nObjective 1: Run a SOC that catches what matters and does not drown in what does not\nAlert volume gets triaged fast enough that a real incident does not sit in a queue behind noise.\nAnalysts know what to escalate and what to close, and the standard for that decision is written down rather than tribal knowledge.\nRecurring false positives get tuned out at the source instead of re-triaged every shift.\nObjective 2: Make the SOC's specialist functions work as one operation\nInsider threat, threat hunt, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability assessment hand work to each other cleanly, without a finding stalling because nobody owned the next step.\nYou can tell which function is under strain before it becomes the SOC's bottleneck.\nCoverage holds across shifts and gaps in staffing, rather than depending on who happens to be on duty.\nObjective 3: Give leadership an accurate picture of the SOC's performance and the program's exposure\nReporting to leadership tells them what changed and what it means, not just a count of tickets closed.\nRisk that needs a decision above your level reaches that decision maker while there is still time to act on it.\nAn incident's real severity and impact get communicated accurately the first time, not revised upward after the fact.\n⠀Objective 4: Build a SOC that gets better at its job over time\nLessons from real incidents change how the SOC operates, not just what gets written in an after-action report.\nAnalysts get better at their craft under you, not just busier.\nStandards and playbooks exist for the SOC's recurring work, and they get followed because they hold up under real conditions.\nWhat You Bring\nMinimum required experience\nCandidates will have a minimum of fice (5) years of direct operational and program management experience in delivery of Cybersecurity program or related projects.\nCandidates will have a minimum of seven (7) years of professional experience with a solid understanding of incident response, insider threat investigations, digital forensics, and cyber threats.\nCandidates for this role possess minimum of five (5) years of cybersecurity experience, with at least 5 years in a SOC leadership capacity.\nIn-depth technical expertise in areas such as SIEM, EDR, and incident response methodologies is essential, coupled with a thorough understanding of network architectures and security controls.\nThe ability to create insider threat focused dashboards, reports and workflow diagrams. Experience collecting data, chain of custody and reporting results; handling and escalating security issues or emergency situations appropriately; providing incident response capabilities to isolate and mitigate threats to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability for protected data.\nExperience with mentoring junior members in an open collaborative environment.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, STEM or cybersecurity\nOne of the following certifications: GCFA, GREM, GCIH, OSCP, GPEN, GFCE or equivalent preferred.\nPreferred Experience\nYou have run a security operations center or an equivalent detection and response function, not only worked inside one as an analyst.\nYou have managed a team through a real incident and can describe what you would do differently.\nYou have reported security posture and incidents to non-technical leadership and can describe what changed in how you communicate because of it.\nYou have worked inside a federal or highly regulated security program and know what that adds to the job beyond the technical work.\nYou hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.\nYou are comfortable across the disciplines your team covers, insider threat, threat hunting, incident response, forensics, and vulnerability assessment, even where you are not the deepest technical expert in each.\nCertifications such as CISSP, GCIH, or CISM are useful, but they are not a substitute for having run the function.\nA note on timing\nWe are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.\nIf you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.\nEmployee Benefits\nAgile's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6715,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Health insurance","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Security Operations","Digital Government","Incident Response","Managed Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-08-18T01:52:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":21,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.574,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":69,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/agile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/agile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-26T06:07:31Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":8253,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-27T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":716156},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=716156"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fagile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fagile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fagile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/agile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fagile-defense-security-operations-center-manager-cbp"}]}