Security Operations Team Lead
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Security Operations Team Lead leading incident response, agentic SOC operations, and security engineering at Cyera. Securing enterprise AI adoption through internal customer-zero operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and develop the Security Operations team
- Set priorities, run the operational cadence, and build career paths
- Direct response to major incidents, make containment calls, manage stakeholder communication, and own after-action processes
- Own metrics and roadmap for the agentic SOC
- Manage the fleet of security agents handling first-pass triage, investigation, and response
- Define guardrails and human approval points, evaluate accuracy, maintain an audit trail, and report impact on autonomous handling and analyst capacity
- Own posture goals, remediation governance, product feedback loop, and reporting for the internal Cyera deployment
- Set detection and response priorities with the Security Engineering lead based on threat model and coverage
- Design and run on-call and coverage arrangements, including external or follow-the-sun support
- Handle the hardest investigations, build detections and playbooks, and write code using AI-assisted workflows
- Represent Security Operations to security leadership and R&D; translate operational data into risk and status
Requirements:
- 5 or more years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering, including senior or lead-level work
- Experience running significant incidents end to end, including executive communication
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers or analysts
- 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
- Strong knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, logging, and cloud incident response
- AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate, or equivalent demonstrated depth
- Strong Python and detection engineering across SIEM and cloud telemetry; able to review and improve others' work
- Experience defining metrics, running an operational cadence, and reporting to leadership
- Clear communication with executives and engineers; calm and decisive under pressure
- Experience with DSPM, DLP, or operating a security product as an internal customer
- Experience in regulated environments such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001
- GCIH, GCFA, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar certifications are nice to have
Benefits:
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid holidays and sick time
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Life, short and long-term disability insurance
- Standard benefits and equity package
- Potential merit increases based on individual or company performance, time in role, and other discretionary factors
















