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Cyera’s mission is to give enterprises the confidence to embrace AI safely - deciding exactly what it can see and do as it reaches deeper into the business. We started by solving the hardest problem in data security: finding and securing data faster and more precisely than anyone thought possible. That foundation is now the essential AI trust infrastructure for the Fortune 1000. We’re hiring mission-driven talent to put those leaders at the center of our story.\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\nJoin our team as the Security Operations Team Lead. You will lead a team of Security Operations Engineers, serve as incident commander for major incidents, and own the day-to-day health and improvement of our agentic SOC.\nYou will also run our customer zero program, in which we operate the Cyera platform on our own environment and feed what we learn back to Product. This is a player-coach role: you lead the team and stay hands-on.\nThe ideal candidate has 5 or more years in security operations or incident response, including senior or lead-level experience, has run significant incidents end to end, and has led or mentored engineers.\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\nTeam Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop the Security Operations team; set priorities, run the operational cadence, and build career paths.\nIncident Command: Direct the response to major incidents, make containment calls, manage stakeholder communication, and own the after-action process.\nSOC Operating Model: Own the metrics and roadmap for the agentic SOC and prioritize the improvements that move them.\nAgentic Fleet Management: Own the fleet of security agents that handle first-pass triage, investigation, and response: define guardrails and human approval points, evaluate accuracy, keep an audit trail, and report impact on autonomous handling and analyst capacity.\nCustomer Zero Program: Own posture goals, remediation governance, the product feedback loop, and reporting for our internal Cyera deployment.\nDetection and Response Strategy: Set detection and response priorities with the Security Engineering lead based on threat model and coverage.\nCoverage: Design and run on-call and coverage arrangements, including any external or follow-the-sun support.\nHands-On Work: Take the hardest investigations, build detections and playbooks, and write code, with AI-assisted workflows as the default way of working.\nStakeholder Management: Represent Security Operations to security leadership and R&D; translate operational data into risk and status.\nRequirements\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:\nExperience: 5 or more years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including senior or lead-level work.\nIncident Command: Experience running significant incidents end to end, including executive communication.\nLeadership: Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers or analysts.\nAI-Assisted Workflows: Hands-on experience running AI-assisted and agent-based security workflows, with a clear view of where agents are reliable, where they fail, and how to measure both.\nAWS Knowledge: Strong knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, logging, and cloud incident response.\nAWS Certification: AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate, or equivalent demonstrated depth.\nTechnical Depth: Strong Python and detection engineering across SIEM and cloud telemetry; able to review and improve others' work.\nOperating Discipline: Experience defining metrics, running an operational cadence, and reporting to leadership.\nCommunication: Clear with executives and engineers; calm and decisive under pressure.\nNice to Have\nData Security: Experience with DSPM, DLP, or operating a security product as an internal customer.\nRegulated Environments: FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001.\nCertifications: GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar.\nCOMPENSATION INFORMATION:\nCompensation Range: $150,000-225,000.\nThe range represents total compensation, and may include incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.\nThis compensation range represents Cyera’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of posting, and Cyera may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. The final salary for this position will be determined in Cyera’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law, and based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the employee’s work experience, skills, and qualifications for the role, as well as the needs of Cyera’s business and other operational considerations.\nFinal compensation will vary based on seniority and relevance of experience, location, and position requirements.\nThis role may be eligible for potential merit increases based on factors such as individual or company performance, time in role, and other discretionary factors. In addition to a standard benefits and equity package, we offer a generous salary. 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