SecOps Team Lead

ControlUp, a market leader in IT Monitoring, Self-healing, and Analyzing virtual environments, is seeking a skilled SecOps Team Lead to manage a team of professional engineers responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our security operations. As a SecOps lead, you’ll play a critical role in safeguarding ControlUp’s network environments from cyber threats.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead IT security projects from inception to execution, ensuring effective implementation and ongoing maintenance.
• Troubleshoot issues in Linux, Windows, and macOS environments, identifying root causes and preventing recurrence.
• Design innovative detection techniques and enhance existing capabilities.
• Identify gaps in current security tools and recommend additional mitigations.
• Align security architecture, plans, controls, processes, policies, and procedures with industry standards and operational goals.
• Create, optimize, and maintain security content on relevant platforms.
• Develop and test security architectures for cloud-based systems (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Analyze security logs, monitoring logs, firewall logs, intrusion prevention system logs, and network data using advanced query techniques.
• Drive the onboarding of new logs into SIEM/Log collection tools, establishing baselines and normalizing log data across corporate networks.

Requirements:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in Cyber Security Operations or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of information security principles (confidentiality, integrity, availability).
• Proficiency in security monitoring tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, etc.).
• Experience managing and securing Active Directory environments.
• Hands-on skills with security data sources (logs, network traffic, endpoints).
• Familiarity with cloud security and virtualization concepts.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and patch processes.
• Programming/scripting abilities (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for security automation.
• Good understanding of IP networks and architecture design.
• Collaborative mindset to work cross-functionally with IT, DevOps, and business teams.
• Experience configuring, managing, and analyzing firewall policies and rules.
• Knowledge of Privileged Access Management Solutions (advantageous).
• Commitment to continuous learning in the evolving security landscape.