Overview
The Senior Cybersecurity Operations role focuses on managing vulnerabilities and responding to security incidents to protect organizational assets and data.
Key Responsibilities
- Aggregates, analyzes, and prioritizes vulnerabilities from multiple sources.
- Performs risk-based triage of vulnerabilities.
- Coordinates remediation activities with IT, infrastructure, and application owners.
- Tracks remediation progress and validates vulnerability closure.
- Maintains vulnerability metrics, dashboards, and status reports.
- Supports SOC operations in detection, analysis, containment, and remediation of security incidents.
- Monitors SIEM, EDR, and security tools in real time.
- Executes predefined playbooks and SOPs for common alert types.
- Performs IOC lookups using threat intelligence platforms.
- Documents incidents in the ticketing system.
- Escalates confirmed or complex incidents.
- Reports recurring false positives and log ingestion gaps.
- Ensures alignment of vulnerability and incident management with policies.
- Identifies systemic weaknesses and proposes improvements.
- Provides regular reporting on vulnerability trends and incident insights.
- Provides support during security incidents.
- Provides strategic risk guidance for IT projects.
- Ensures security program compliance with rules and regulations.
- Monitors the external threat environment.
- Performs technical security assessments.
- Provides support to users for daily security requests.
Required Experience
- Minimum six (6) years of relevant professional experience is required.
- Demonstrated expertise in vulnerability management is required.
- Experience in Security Operations Center (SOC), systems and infrastructure management, and/or application security is required.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master's or equivalent) from an accredited educational institution in Information Technology or related field.