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Security Operations Team Lead

Cyera

Join our team as the Security Operations Team Lead. In this role, 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. You will also run our customer zero program and be hands-on in your work. The ideal candidate has 5 or more years of experience in security operations or incident response, including senior or lead-level experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the Security Operations team, set priorities, and build career paths.
  • Direct the response to major incidents, manage stakeholder communication, and own the after-action process.
  • Own the metrics and roadmap for the agentic SOC, prioritize improvements, and manage the fleet of security agents.
  • Technical Depth: Strong Python and detection engineering across SIEM and cloud telemetry; able to review and improve others' work

Requirements

  • AI-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
  • AWS Certification: AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate, or equivalent demonstrated depth
  • Incident Command: Experience running significant incidents end to end, including executive communication
  • Operating Discipline: Experience defining metrics, running an operational cadence, and reporting to leadership
  • Experience: 5 or more years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including senior or lead-level work
  • AWS Knowledge: Strong knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, logging, and cloud incident response
  • Communication: Clear with executives and engineers; calm and decisive under pressure
  • Leadership: Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers or analysts
  • Data Security: Experience with DSPM, DLP, or operating a security product as an internal customer
  • Regulated Environments: FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001

Preferred

  • Certifications: GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar

Pay

USD 150,000 - 225,000