Job Description

SOC Manager (Cyber Security Operations)

MTTD. Know it.
MTTR. Know it.
MTTP. Mean time to prevent.

It isn’t a real metric yet. This team wants to make it one.

A large Australian organisation is looking for a SOC Manager to lead its security operations, and to move the function from detect and respond to predict and respond. A managed provider handles L1 and L2, so your team gets to focus on the escalations that matter and the work that stops incidents happening in the first place.

What you’ll be doing
Leading the SOC team across monitoring, detection, incident response, threat intelligence and exposure management
Owning the relationship with the managed security provider, and holding them to a high standard on quality and alignment
Building out threat modelling (STRIDE, PASTA) and continuous threat exposure management, so priorities are driven by attack paths and business impact rather than scan reports
Optimising the SIEM, SOAR and threat intelligence platforms, and driving automation wherever it saves the team time
Running playbooks, escalation procedures and incident response plans, and coordinating stakeholders when a major incident hits
Coordinating enterprise-wide security assessments, including red teaming




Reporting on operations metrics and threat trends to senior leadership

What you’ll bring
5+ years in cyber security operations, including time leading a SOC or operations team
Robust working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, UBA and CTI platforms, detection engineering and incident response
Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK;, NIST and threat modelling frameworks, plus risk-based prioritisation and attack path analysis
Excellent stakeholder skills, from engineers and resolver groups through to legal, HR, cyber insurance and executives
A calm head and valuable judgement under pressure
Bonus points for experience with tools like Wiz, CrowdStrike Falcon Identity or AWS GuardDuty, scripting for automation, and certifications such as CISSP, CISM or GIAC

The team
Flat structure, low egos and a lot of honesty
People ask for help, share what they know and back each other
You’ll report to the CISO who’s openly said the team is smarter than they are

The practical bits
Permanent, full time
Fully remote within Australia
$220k to $240k base plus super, plus a 10% bonus

Ever moved a SOC from reactive to proactive? I’d love to hear how you did it.

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