Cyber Defense Manager
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and oversee end-to-end SOC operations, including 24/7/365 readiness, triage quality, and continuous operational stability.
Coordinate Incident Response processes and manage Major Incidents, ensuring effective cross-team crisis handling and resolution.
Drive SOC maturity by designing detection use cases and implementing SOAR automation, including AI-assisted workflows to improve detection and response.
Monitor, analyze, and report cybersecurity KPIs (e.g., MTTD, MTTR) to ensure operational efficiency and continuous improvement.
Conduct Threat Hunting activities to proactively identify hidden threats across enterprise IT and OT environments using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Manage MSSP/MDR vendors, enforce SLA compliance, and reduce alert fatigue by improving alert quality and relevance.
Optimize operational costs by reducing false positives through AI/ML-based correlation and anomaly detection mechanisms.
Ensure security and resilience of AI/ML models used in defensive systems, including awareness of adversarial ML risks.
Requirements
Higher education in a relevant field.
5+ years of experience in SOC operations or cybersecurity leadership roles.
Strong hands-on knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, and EDR platforms and Incident Response frameworks (SANS, NIST).
Practical experience with MITRE ATT&CK and Threat Hunting methodologies in IT and OT environments.
Experience managing MSSP/MDR providers and enforcing SLA-driven service quality.
Understanding of AI/ML concepts in the context of cybersecurity automation and anomaly detection.
Strong crisis management skills and ability to coordinate under high-pressure incident conditions.